Hi I’m Pat Sloan the Aurifil Designer of the Month coordinator. Every month in 2012 one of our fabulous Designers created an adorable stitchery using our 12 wt threads.
At the end of the year their stack of blocks were all at MY house.. I’m so lucky!!
Sherri Falls created the rough draft of the setting and it was my job to use the Moda’s “Sassy” Layer cake that I had to set the blocks. This was GREAT fun! To be honest it’s a bit of a challenge to use just one fabric line sometimes, but the design team did such a great job with their blocks that it was easy to create a super cute layout.
CLICK HERE if you are missing any of the patterns
Want to see?
Here it is!
I followed the basic idea of Sherri’s layout using strips…
And adding in 1″ finished dots of black. The “Sassy” line designed by Sandy Gervais has peach, light green, turquoise, orange, and black.
Ta Da! The finished top! I SO love it!
The binding will be scrappy black fabrics from the line. Most of these black fabrics have some peach or orange in them. Similar to what you seen in the one skinny inner border
So many of you shared your embroidered blocks in our flickr group, they are amazing! I hope you’ll share your top once you set your blocks. We really want to see them!
CLICK HERE to our 2012 Flickr group
Need the Embroidery Patterns? CLICK HERE
Want to see a behind the scenes on how I did some of the fabric selections? CLICK HERE
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CLICK HERE to download the setting Pattern for the 2012 Aurifil BOM
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We also would love you to ask your local quilt shop to carry our thread if they do not do so already. If they do carry our thread, yippee!
If your local shop carries our thread and is not on the shop finder list, write to me pat@patsloan.com and I’ll be sure they are added!
EACH MONTH we will pick one random winner that has made a block for the current 2013 Designer of the Month program (blog post just prior to this one).. that person will receive a special Aurifil thread prize! Winners are all contacted via Flickr email and posted at our Flickr page in the winner topics.
You can make ANY of the 2013 blocks to be in the running (and we hope you make them all!). Share your photos at our Flickr Folder… we can’t WAIT to see what you do!
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