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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Today Is My Day...

My polka dot block and a little giveaway!



I am really excited to participate in the Dots On Dots blog hop!

I love polka dots, and I suspect you do too!
I even wear polka dot sunglasses!
I have a block to share with you and some of the quilts I have made that I incorporated 
dots into...

I made a special version of a flower block with a 3-D center.

If you would like to make one here is what you will need:
4- 6 1/2" squares for flower petals (black and white polka dots)
4- 3 1/2" squares and 4- 2 1/2" squares (dark blue dots) for  background
4- 4 1/2" sq.'s folded twice to make the flower centers (green polka dot)

Directions: place a 3 1/2" blue square on left corner of 6 1/2" square and sew across the diagonal;
do that again on other 6 1/2"  sq.'s. Then take the 2 1/2" sq.s and place on the right top corner of the 6 1/2" sq. & sew across on the diagonal. Cut away excess behind the diagonal where you stitched.
Next: take your flower centers that you folded twice to make the "prarie points" and sew those 
within the seam of each two "petals" as you sew them together.
Be sure to copy placement of the squares like in the photo.
Repeat with the last two squares and there you have your flower block.
It measures 12.5 inches.

I modeled the block after this block by Quilt Soup. But I needed it larger and I changed the center 
(and the petals) for a little extra pizazz!



Here is another one of my quilts made with an Abby Lane pattern and MoMo fabrics...
big polka dots!


This one is Picnic from Scrap Basket Sensations book and Sweetwater fabrics.


And here are more polka dots used as the setting triangles in a Fig Tree pattern called
Figgy Pudding.


And lastly...


here is my sweet little Dresden with a few polka dots of Pam Kitty Morning fabric
 used for the petals!
Flowers and polka dots just seem to go together!

I hope you got some inspiration here today...
and if you would like to enter to win this book by
With Fabric & Thread
Fig Tree and Company... just leave me a comment.
I will pick a winner on Sept 20th, the last day of the dots on dots blog hop.
I love this book and I guarantee you will find lots of inspiration inside...
and just maybe some thing you would like to make with polka dots!
(I love love love my copy of it)

Thanks to Corrie from Quilt Taffy and Madame Samm from Sew WE Quilt for organizing another super fun blog hop! Click here to see the full schedule for the Dots on Dots Blog Hop and here are the hoppers for today:

September 13th
Pink Pincushion
Bee in My Bonnet


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