Let’s celebrate Spring’s arrival earlier this week with Flower Festival by four-time C&T Publishing author Kim Schaefer. Too busy in your garden for big quilting projects these days? Try making one of the 50 different flower and bug applique blocks in this book each time you take a break from tending your garden or veggie patch. By the time your seeds are sewn, you’ll have a fresh spring quilt to show off. Or break it up into block-sized projects. Each of these blocks is cute and graphic enough to stand alone so make a couple blocks into a tote bag, or frame a block or three and hang them in your kitchen. The book comes with 9 quilt projects, but there really is so much more you can do with these designs. Check out the product page on the C&T website to look inside the book.
Leave a comment about what you are excited about doing this Spring and one lucky commenter will win a copy of Flower Festival. I’ll go first: I’m excited to discover docks I can teach my dog to jump off. I am also excited to finish my second quilt. Now I can’t wait to hear what you have to say.
On Monday morning (March 30), we’ll pick one commenter at random and announce the winner later that day. Good luck!
*Comments will be closed on Monday, March 30, at 9am PST
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I’m excited for at least 2 reasons – I finally got some $ to finish my sewing studio (my stuff has been put away for over 1 year) and our garden – our fruit trees have fruit, our veggies are growing, and life is wonderful!
I’m excited to finish my patriotic quilt! i hope I win.
I always am excited when my red tulips start to show signs of coming out. The leaves starting to bud out on the trees around our house. The blossoms on our fruit trees!
I LOVE SPRING!!!
Looking forward to planting my garden…until then I’ll continue to quilt!
I am excited about making a quilt for my grandsons, (22 months and 19 months old). I am making a jungle quilt for each of them to play with their jungle animals on!! Need to have the first one made by middle of May. Exciting to celebrate his second birthday!
Going outside! As soon as it stops being cold it rains!
I’m excited about being able to get outside and walk. I’m also excited about starting a new applique project, if I could just find one I like.
I’m excited about getting my garden in this year! With prices on the rise everywhere, I’ll be helping our household finances by freezing/canning and eating tons of fresh produce. I have plans for some flower beds, but am not sure I’ll get to them this spring or not….and on a quilty note, I’m anxious to make a baby quilt for grandchild #8! ANd I want to try my hand at applique over the summer….
This spring I’d like to start a new project. I’m about ready to finish off a mystery quilt (pretty colors, but no flowers!), and about ready to put a binding on an applique quilt I’ve hand quilted for my Mother
I can’t wait to see real flowers again, and would like to stitch some happy flowers to match
I am excited that my son and I will be seeing my mother, older brother and my little sister and her family. I have not seen my mother since the summer of 1997. She had never seen my little boy. California here I come!
I’m excited about the nice weather and all the beautiful flowers – they are an inspiration for quilts I’d like to make!
I’m excited because my wystria is blooming and I can see it from the window of my sewing room and I can see it while I work. Like so many quilters I have a piecing project and a finishing project going, finishing a baby quilt and piecing some HST for a scrappy project.
I’m excited about the planning of my son’s wedding to take place early this fall. The best thing … he fell in love with a gal that SEWS!
I’m excited by the smell of Spring in the air! It lets me know that sunny skies, pretty flowers and warm breezes will be outside my door.
warm quilt hugs, sue
I am excited for our garden……..we always “shop” the garden every summer, but with the way the economy is, we will shop it even more. Also am excited to keep doing the stashbusting in my sewing dungeon that I have been working on. Spring always seems a time for renewal and “cleaning” up, and I want to clean up some of those old projects and start some new.
I’m excited about sharing our collectible automobile, a 1957 T-Bird, (red with white interior) at several car shows this spring.
I’m excited about being able to sit out on my deck to quilt again. Once the snow is finally gone, and the Red River stops flooding, things should start to look bright and sunny around here again.
Spring is a wonderful time of the year. I always look forward to the flowers, birds and watm weather for inspiration. Theresa
I’m excited to be going to visit my granddaughter whom I haven’t seen since she was 5 months old, and take her a quilt made by my 10 year old daughter. Warmer weather, longer days keeping the kids outside more leaving me a bit more free time for sewing is nice too!
I’m excited to be able to finish some of my quilt projects this Spring. I look forward to sewing and gardening.
I am excited about actually being to sit down (after tax season) and being to learn to use my new joy quilting frame….Maybe I will be able to finish up some quilt tops!!!
I’m excited to be going to quilt retreat with my online peeps. It’ll be my first time meeting my online group, so I’m super excited for this spring.
I am excited to have a craft week in May with my friend at her vacation home on the Rapahannock River in Virginia.
I can’t wait for my mom and brother to come visit. That is an excuse for all the relatives in the area to gather, and we have a great time. And my brother even loves to come over and see all my new quilting projects!
I am excited that this long winter is past us and we have so much to look forward to, in both, the real & quilted gardens we all enjoy.
I am so excited just to get outside and work in my flower beds. It has been such a long winter. My crocuses are blooming!
This book is being published at the perfect time! I am so heartily tired of winter (we have had the third worst in history, with more snow due this week! I cry ‘Uncle!’) and this book looks like nearly forgotten gardens, flowers and COLOR! I would like to while away a few hours making something green, floral and multi-colored as I wait for the ground to be ready to play and plant in!
Lynda in Spokane
Pick Me! Pick Me! This book looks so exciting that from the 10pages that I can look at I can see where I can take the ideas and run with them and make so many more ideas come to life and hopefully use up some of my stash and give me an excuse to go and shop for more fabric. My husband says I can not shop for more until I use some as I have no more room to stack it. So I need the book for more ideas. I make the quilts and have no problem with giving them away. Thanks.
We are going into autumn here in the southern hemisphere, and I enjoy the rich changing of colour
I am excited to try out my new applique skills learned in a class with Betty Suiter at Pigeon Forge Quiltfest. I never thought that I could do needleturn applique until taking this class. Now I am confident that I can do this even though diabetic neuropathy causes numbness in my fingers and hands.
I am excited that Spring is here! My peach tree has beautiful blooms on it, I went to buy flowers to plant in my garden, and I will be working on a memory quilt for my sister. It will have pictures of our dad that passed away. The pictures range from when he was a kid on the farm, to when he was a young man in the Navy, a father to us, and last, a picture of him right before he passed away. I sure hope she likes it!
I am excited for our quilt show this spring. Thank you for the opportunity.
Spring Break! I’m a teacher, so I’ll actually have time to quilt for a week.
I’m excited, waiting for spring – I’m doing my first ever garden this year! Imagine, I’ll be 50 on Tuesday and I’ve never planted a thing. I hope I don’t kill everything…..*G*
I’m excited about finishing some baby quilts for donation to a local hospital. I’m also planning to do some major rearranging in my sewing room. I love flowers and working in the garden and this book sounds like it is full of inspiration.
I am looking forward to quilting many, many quilts on my HQ for people who would not normally have the opportunity to have it done. Great site, glad I found it!
I’m always looking forward to more quilting :)
We’re also hoping to move early this summer, so I will be packing the house. I will also behaving a few garage sales to lighten the load.
I am really excited about adopting a rescued english springer spaniel. Don’t know when he or she will come to live with us but I’m waiting happily. There will be a dog quilt in my future!
After buying and redoing at “new” older lake home in the last year and a half, I have deemed this the season of the Great Clean-up! I am having wonderful fun cleaning out nasty flower beds, a grape arbor, grove of fruit trees and just getting the small things done to tidy up the outside appearance of our new home. But I am also excited to “clean up” miscellaneous quilt projects that have been waiting for attention while house walls were knocked out, other walls and ceilings replastered and this house transformed into our home. I am so blessed to have such great fun with my family!
Love this site! Always great things to see and learn!
I’m excited to spend summer outside in my flowerbeds and garden AND to sew up a storm!
I’m excited about going to the Quilters’ Heritage Celebration in Lancaster!
I’m excited to finish my first quilt (I have 2 started), and excited to get some more fabric so I can start more.
I can finally stop wearing 4 layers of fleece to try to stay warm cause the heat has to be so low to safe moola. Flowers starting, sun is shining and buds on the trees. Thank you God!
I am so excited since my daffodils are starting to bloom and spring is on its way!
I’m so excited to have my 1st 4 tomatoes planted and 5 different basils. I can hardly wait to go back to the nursery for more plants! And of course excited about beginning to quilt the springish table runner I finally finished last week. Hurray Spring!!!!
I’m always excited to see Spring arrive, even in Texas where we don’t have much winter. I can’t wait to put more flowers out in the yard and love to see all the birds come through as they return from their “winter vacations” ! I’m excited about some quilt shows coming up and the antique shows in Round Top.
I’m a winner! (or at least, I HOPE I am) :O)
I’m excited to see the end of winter whites and greys. Spring in Wisconsin comes late, but it blooms it’s head off when it gets here. :)
I’m so excited that I’m going to have a new Grandbaby (my first) later this summer. I have already bought the most beautiful pastel baby flannel and plan on making my 3rd rag time crib quilt.
Especially now that it is for my own grandchild.
Let’s see, I’m excited that I got to sew/craft today. I’m excited that I’ve finished curtains for my cousin today. I’m really excited that it’s Friday!! I’m excited everyday that I wake up…but I wasn’t excited when my dog chewed several places in the power cord for my laptop…
I am excieted that Summer will soon be here and I can sit out in my back yard and stitch on my applique while enjoying the fresh air and tranquility.
Quilty Hugs from ND
I’m excited that I get to keep my internet service!!! My husband was laid off and I had to adjust our budget accordingly. The last time we were in a difficult financial position I couldn’t keep the internet, but since we no longer have any credit card debt (which was NOT easy!) I can afford to keep it this time around! I’m a full-time quilter and the internet is almost as valuable to me as is my sewing machine!
I’m excited to finish up some community outreach projects and get going on some UFOs! I am past the stress of Christmas and a quilt show and can start working on stuff for MEEE! and for friends, and for fun.
We are well within our gardening season in south Florida – I’m looking forward to harvesting my grape tomatoes, kale and cilantro. I’m also looking forward to starting a baby quilt for a friend.
I can’t wait for the first ‘granny apple’ green leaves to burst out in spring. Its my favourite color for nature and fabric.
I’m excited that spring is coming and I will be working on my spring fling quilt…make that nasty winter go away!
O’m excited about spring and I’m starting on a bug and worm quilt called “Wiggles and Sqiggles”
I’m love spring, I love flowers & color & sunshine. This will be our 1st spring in our new home in NV. We have very little landscaping at all but I found tulips coming up yesterday!
I’m excited for spring’s warm weather, time to start a garden during the day and quilt in the evening.
I am excited about being a grandma for the first time. Watching and helping my daughter and her husband with the journey of being parents. Sharing the world with a new being and trying to help keep them safe.
I am excited about my new Accuquilt Go machine. In have spinal problems and am hoping this will make my quilts a lot easier to cut. I have some beautiful blue and white large flowered fabric and some light and dark blue that coordinate with it. It will be great to get back to making new quilts and especially bright and cheery ones for spring.
Since I can no longer garden, will be making flowery quilts with the help of my new Accuquilt Go machine. Can’t wait.
I am teaching a group of women in my home once per month, diffent aspects of quilting. We range from a 23 year old with 6 quilts under her belt to a retired couple, just now getting into quilting. So far lessons have been on proper batting for the quilts, fabric choices, binding and paper piecing. This next one in April will be a challenge for them. I have a bag of fat quarters they will choose from sight unseen, they will then partner up with one of the members and they will make each other a gift from the fat quarters they’ve received. The next month in May, we will see what they came up with. It’s so much fun and eventually we hope to do a project for a local shelter.
I am excited about doing a quilt for our family reunion!
I’m excited about becoming a Great Aunt this Spring and that my purple Irises will soon be blooming along with my other flowers…
I love this book. Looks like a keeper.
hugs
I’m excited about going to North Carolina to travel on our 36′ trawler, “Cool Breeze”. No room for quilting so I will be taking pictures of all the spring flowers I can find. Hope to do a quilt with lots of embellishments when I get back to Montana.
I’m excited about having a few days off from work and working in the yard. Then perhaps taking a mid-afternoon break and having a glass of iced tea on the patio before anyone else gets home.
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1st i must finish a commission then I can resume work on a kaleidescope quilt and next a patchwork with cat applique, materials are calling to me to get busy
It’s always exciting to feel spring in the air. Winter lingers but it won’t be long until spring will be here for good!
I am excited to sit in my new rocking chair on my new porch and watch the canadian geese return to the river across the street from me. Why my house was built (in the 1940′s) without a porch is just insane. We have a fantastic view of the Niagara river that needs to be enjoyed.
I love all the spring flower and the promise of hot summer days!
I’d love to try those bugs!
I’m excited about growing a BIG vegetable garden this year! Last year we did a small one that was great, I already have all my seeds and when the ground thaws I’m ready to go.
I’m excited to start a new applique project with spring like colors.
I am excited for spring to be here so I can walk on our mountain and see the wildflowers and wildlife. I look forward to the lizards, praying mantis, walking stick, and other various bugs and the green that comes with spring. Waiting also in May for the migration of the Monarch butterflies through our area. I want to quilt nature this spring and summer with all the beautiful colors displayed outside.
I can’t wait to start tending my flower garden. The bulbs are just starting to come up, so it won’t be long now! I also plan to start some new flower gardens in the form of new, colorful quilt tops.
I am excited to finally soon see an end to the SNOW!!! We have had 2 big spring snow storms (12 inches and 4 inches) at the end of March and have had more snow this winter than we have had in over 10 years. I live in the Chinook belt in Calgary, AB. Most winters we barely have a skiff of snow and this year all we have had is snow!!! I am also excited to get started on some fabric dyeing once we get some nice weather.
Wow. This collection of comments really lifts the spirit! There’s so much to look forward to with welcoming in the new spring season. In summary us quilters are really looking forward to experiencing the feeling of spring – from the warmer temperatures to the smell of new garden blooms. We have lots of quilting to do this season and have specific projects, techniques, and tools in mind already. We will be spending time with loved ones, from new spring babies to reunions with friends and family. We will be going outdoors and exploring our surroundings, starting with our gardens and venturing out on long walks as well as taking trips. Thank you all for sharing your stories in the comments. And Good Luck on the giveaway!
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