Meadow Mist Designs: row by row

Friday, August 26, 2016

Row by Row Design for Stitcher's Quest

This spring I had the opportunity to help out a quilt store called Stitcher's Quest in Fort Walton Beach in Florida with their Row by Row pattern.

The Row by Row Experience is an international program (throughout the US, Canada and Europe) where each participating shops designs a quilt row pattern that is distributed free to customers throughout the summer. Each row may be horizontal or vertical and finishes at 8" x 36". Quilters visit different stores throughout the summer to collect the patterns and combine them together into a quilt.

The 2016 theme was Home Sweet Home, and each shop worked with that theme theme in their row. Stitcher's Quest wanted to incorporate 3 things into their row: a white sand beach, houses, and some F35 jets to represent the nearby Air Force base.

After playing around with some different options and going through some different iterations we settled on a horizontal layout with the background (sand, water, sky) and the houses being traditionally pieced and the palm tree and jets being appliqued.

Stitcher's Quest found some great fabrics that worked really well for each of the parts of the design. I added quilting to highlight and give texture to different parts of the quilt.

Below is a picture the Stitcher's Quest display area (along with some of my Meadow Mist designs patterns :)

I had such a great time working to make Stitcher's Quest's vision into a quilt and pattern. Thank you again Judy for allowing me to design and create a Row by Row pattern for you!

I am linking up to Link a Finish Friday, Whoop Whoop Friday, Thank Goodness Its Finished Friday, Finish It Up Friday, Fabric Frenzy Friday, and Show Off Saturday @ Sew Can She.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Row By Row Design

Way back in June, I got a call from Leslie (the new owner of our local Bernina shop, Bernina...We're in Stitches, where our Greenville Modern Quilt Guild meets) about helping with a design for the Row by Row program.

The Row by Row is an international program (throughout the US and Canada) where each participating shops designs a quilt row pattern that is distributed free to customers throughout the summer. You can learn more about the Row by Row program here.

The 2015 theme was Row by Row H20, and each shop worked with the water theme in their row. Leslie had an idea of umbrellas on the beach and asked me to come up with some ideas. For a more realistic looking umbrella with all of those weird angles my mind immediately went to paper piecing. I worked up my ideas into a proposal which Leslie loved. To make the pattern appeal to more quilters, Leslie suggested also having an applique version.

I created two full 8" x 36" row patterns for the Row by Row shop hop, the first using paper piecing and the second using applique. Below are some photos of the samples made by the shop. It was great fun working with Leslie to create a pattern off of her vision.