I like to refer to C&T Author Susan Brubaker Knapp as the “pattern queen,” as she creates dozens of patterns to sell on her website and her new release with C&T is a pattern pack called Appliqué Petal Party.
In celebration of her new release, Susan has offered to give away one of her beautiful quilt patterns to a lucky C&T blog reader. The pattern is called Bohemian Bouquet. Susan describes it as:
flora and fauna frolicking across the surface of this 48″ square (without borders) appliqué quilt. Rich jewel-tone appliqué pops off the black background. I used needleturn appliqué, but this pattern can also be done using fusible web. The pattern is full-sized, and includes detailed general directions, tips, and finishing instructions.
Would you like to win it? All you have to do is review Susan’s patterns. From purses and bags to quilts and wall hangings, we want to know what floats your boat. Leave us a comment telling us your favorite design from bluemoonriver.com and you will automatically be entered to win.
Comments will be closed at 9am PST on Monday, November 23, 2009. Good luck!
88 Comments
I am really drawn to the Pink Petal Party quilt. I have 2 granddaughters who love pink and that quilt is pinkalicious!
Wow. I would really love to win that BOM pattern in the giveaway. It is truly stunning. What a talented person. I thought when I realized it was the author of Petal Party that applique would be the basis of her patterns. What a surprise to find such diversity. I really was drawn to “Basket of Chocolates”. No, not because I love choc. (I do) but because I’m drawn to trying the basket pattern. It could have a lot of uses in a quilt. Her gallery is mindboggling. Her artistic work and vision has to be seen and read to be appreciated. I plan to do both. Thanks!!
She is a great designer. I have done a lot of work with wool and finished a wonderful wallhanging that everyone admires. It is a lot of work, but so much fun to see when completed. I also do rughooking so I have a great stash to pull from. I hope others will expand their experience and try this great pattern.
Well that’s a tough choice… I LOVE Susan’s art quilts, but from the patterns I’d find it a toss-up between Bohemian Bouquet and Glasgow Rose… I love the combination of circular with square in the latter, especially how the leaves peek out of the circle at the N-S-E-W points on the circle. BUT, I love both foxes and rabbits, so Bohemian Bouquet it must be!
PS–Kudos to both Susan and C&T. Susan’s is the first “pattern packet” I’ve seen and the quality is great…love the extra instructions and helpful photos.
Cheers, Sarah
Be still my heart…they are ALL drop dead gorgeous! I don’t think it’s possible to choose a favorite, except for ALL OF THE ABOVE! ;-)
I love the Tulip Bag. It is so professional and finished looking and I can do lots of quilting and embellishment on it. And its a great way to use up lots of large fabric scraps.
http://bluemoonriver.com/Tulip.html
my favorite
great size
great shape
well done
My favorite is Round Red Barn. I love the apparent simplicity of it, and the way it makes you think about the roundness.
I love her new Petal Play. Great design and the color is fantastic. Although, there isn’t one of her patterns that I wouldn’t love to have.
Thanks for the contest!
Well, being an applique addict, I’d have to say that the Bohemian Bouquet is right up there close to the top, but there is something about Petal Party that really speaks to me, even though I really DON’T like PINK!!!! It’s still such a lovely pattern that I could overcome my anti-pinkness. LOL!
What a fun giveaway. Susan is definitely a talented quilter and author. It is difficult for me to pick my favorite of her designs, as I truly love them all. I love her Tulip Bag, and am currently making one. I’d love to make her Polka Party quilt, and I also would love to make her Easy Runner for the holiday season. But By The Sea also looks so yummy, I could eat an entire lobster!
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
I really love the Tulip Bag! An original shape and very functional too!
But I do love lots of other Susan’s patterns and quilt in the Gallery too…
I really like a lot of your patterns but because of the season we’re in now, I’d have to say Bittersweet Harvest jumps out at me. Also love the new book, that quilt is just happy!
I love Heart’s Desire! I would love to make it.
I love House Rules. It’s a beautiful, fun way to let children and everyone know what’s important in life. She’s a very talented quilter with interesting subjects.
Tough choice! For me it’s a toss-up between “Hearts Desire” (love the contrast with the black background and the hand-dyes) or the Tulip Bag, which has such a unique and fun shape that hides an extra pocket on the outside!
Gosh, what a tough choice! :) I like the Celestial pattern best … but A Day at the Beach is a close second.
:) Linda
Very hard to choose my favourite but today Ithink it will be thepinata purse. Thanks for the giveaway offer
I love the black background quilts, but the Tulip Bag gets my vote. I love making fabric totes and accessories!
I love all of Susan’s work!
my favorite is her butterfly, although I do not think it is a pattern, yet.
Funny that I was working on a similar piece just before she revealed hers!
Katherine
While I adore anything fall, I especially love her Heart’s Desire BOM. The giveaway pattern looks to be a very close second choice – looks even more challenging!
i love “my favourite vegetable is candy corn” and the pinata purse pattern. can i have two favourites?
All the pattern designs arereally great, but the one I like the most (after Bohemian Bouquet of course!) is the ‘Round Red Barn’ quilt. It looks so real, I thought it was a photo at first. Ha ha silly me.
I love Applique Petal Party but I also love the Bohemian Bouquet. Both have tons of applique which is my “thing.”
My favorite pattern is Heart’s Desire! Beautiful as are all of the patterns!
I love her patterns!!! If I had to choose just one, it would probably be Petal Party, but followed closely by Bohemian Bouquet! Love your work Susan, you are a true inspiration!!
My fav is the Tulip Bag pattern and I have just purchased it!
Just looking now for the Bag-E-bottoms base, but may have to order online.
Congrats Susan… and wow! what a give-away!
Oh! I’m amazed by the quilt, can I say3 please? I’m going for the Bohemian Bouquet Block-of-the-Month, that’s why I’m here, the Gingerbread Countdown, and the piñata purse, I like them!, thank you for the chance!
“Hearts of Desire” is TO DIE FOR! This play on a traditional Baltimore Album Quilt is a stunning beauty with its brilliant colors set on a black background. I would use this pattern and make it in hand-dyed wool, one of my favorite mediums. For the background I would use black flannel. I have some brilliant wools that would be fabulous in this pattern! I’m bookmarking her website!
I love Three Cheers. It’s very graphic…so many possibilities!
Thanks for the opportunity to hope I win!
Banana Layer Cake has a quirky appeal, and looks like something I would enjoy making. Love the other designs, but would have to be really motivated to finish some of them.
I really like the Pink Petal Party pattern. I love the pink but I think my two boys and husband would like the other colors that were shown. Very pretty. Also I like to make bags and the Tulip bag pattern is one that I will most likely try. I would love to win the Bohemian Bouquet pattern. Its beautiful!
The bittersweet pattern is my favorite.
I think I like Celestial the best but it is hard to choose, they are all lovely.
I love the Beach Vacation, it is so much fun.
I am torn between the Pink Petal Party and the Bohemian Bouquet. Both are beautiful quilts!! This visit is my first to the site and I’m bookmarking it to check back. I collect doves and think I must add the Bohemian Bouquet to my Christmas list.
I love the Bohemian Bouquet and have wanted to try it for a while, but when I first saw Pink Petal Party on her website I was truly smitten!
Tough decision but I think my favourite is the dozen hearts bag. It isn’t always the most complicated or involved pattern that appeals to me. Sometimes its nice to make something fun and whimsical and suitable for gift giving. This pattern fulfills all of that plus has a 2nd project to do. Bonus!
I really like the Heart’s Desire pattern best, although they are all charming. Heart’s Desire wins my vote because I love anything with hearts.
Very tough decision. Love so many! I especially like the tulip bag as it is so different from any other bag pattern I’ve seen. Very creative.
I love Susan’s quilts! I am torn between Heart’s Desire and Bohemian Bouquet. I normally do not even like black background quilts but these patterns are fatastic!
Jackie
Oh tough to choose……….very tough. But I think Bohemian Bouquet would have to be my favourite. I adore those stylized florals
Pink Petal party and Hearts Desire are my two favorites,I just love to applique, so the Bohemian Bouquet right up on top of my list
Oh my! I love all of her patterns! What an artist! I think my favorite is her quilt Petal Party. I love flowers!
My Favo0urite pattern has to be Glasgow Rose. Just love the Art Deco and the impact of colour. I think that is also the reason why I love Bohemian Bouquet. The style and colour impact is so wonderful.
Truly both works of art
I really love the “feel happy” of Good Morning SunShine (mmm… huggs) and the simplistic Pretty of Dozen Hearts. I would include the Tulip bag, but I really don’t ‘do’ bags in real life, although I would make one of two for gifts. However the Bohemian Bouquet is The Superb of all her quilts in my most humble estimation!
~Connie, in envious desire of such talent!
I love the home planet pattern. It would be cool to say I know the place I live on. lol
I absolutely love “heart’s desire” BOM. The classic applique with the whimsical hears just makes my heart feel happy just looking at it. Thanks for doing this give away!
I like the shape of the tulip bag. It looks like a fun, easy project.
Round Red Barn speaks to me! Thanks for the giveaway Susan. The best to you with your beautiful new book!
Love the” Round Red Barn” pattern … it is a true representation of the great Barn at Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, VT… right down to the rock foundation and the grass growing alongside. Susan has the magical skill of designing both realistically and of adding elements that are definitively her imagination. Her colour sense in bags like ” The Flora Bag” and the detail in her Glascow Rose are brilliant! This designer has a special place in my own design collection and I use her patterns whenever I find them.
Do keep Susan at the top of your list of talented and recognizable artists and I look forward to many more of Susan’s designs in MY collection of quilt projects.
Bethany Garner
Quiltmaker, Restoration Specialist and Fibre Artist
Instructor, Textile Design
St. Lawrence College, Kingston, ON
I love the pinate purse for my granddaughter. I love to make table runner for my DIL’s. She is quite a creator.
Nancy in IN
It’s a hard choice but I’m in love with the Pink Petal party Book. I have it on the top of my must have list.
My husband keeps telling me I don’t need any more books…LOL. Now hooowwwwwwwwwwww does he know that. He’s not me.
I also total enjoy the By the Sea pattern. That would be so much fun to do.
Billie
That is a tough one. It is between Polka Party and the Hearts Desire. I can’t choose….I love them both. Susan’s patterns are fun and I love the bright colors.
Smiles,
Kelly
How Exciting.
I like medallion quilts so my favourite is Heart’s Desire.
Bohemian Bouquet is very striking on black with the bright fabrics and love the animals.
Denise
Your patterns are all wonderful. The tulip bag would be my favorite, and the applique quilts. My grandkids would love the gingerbread countdown…and I enjoy fall colors, so the cat pillow and the bittersweet table are favorites. Your Bohemian quilt is the very best, though…I have coveted that pattern!
Glasglow Rose — an arts and crafts style that is still so very modern
I enjoyed looking at all the patterns, but by the sea caught my eye as my favorite. Thanks for offering an opportunity to win the pattern.
Oh WOW! Bohemian Bouquet is just breathtaking! It looks like detailed Elizabethan tapestries! Susan’s choice of subject matter is very interesting. It’s almost like looking into a fairy tale or fable. Love all the flowers sprinkled throughout too. I’m also really drawn to Pink Petal Party, done in the multicolored fabs. Just beautiful! I must say, Susan’s designs are so diverse and fun….it is extremely hard to choose just one favorite! Thanks for the generous giveaway….and thanks to Susan for sharing her wonderful patterns with the quilting world!
I like Susan’s bag/tote patterns the best, especially the tulip bag, which has a wonderful shape!
All the patterns are wondeful.Hearts desires aplique,it`s tha t I chose.
Great giveaway.
ooo, so many to choose from. I think my favorites are the Round Red Barn and the Tulip Bag. What a great giveaway!
I loved many of them!! I think my favorite is Celestial. This giveaway is wonderful and I hope you pick ME!
Denny
denny1600 at gmail dot com
I truly love her Bohemian Bouquet the best! I also love her Applique Petal Party and purchased those patterns to complete; but I would so love to win a copy of the Bohemian Bouquet to quilt! Thanks for the opportunity!
Her patterns are so beautiful and challenging. I would love to have the opportunity of making one of her patterns. I love applique and a challenge.
So hard to choose a favorite…the bags are wonderful; I love the gingerbread xmas calendar but my alltime favorite would be the Bohemian Bouquet!
Keep up the great work , Susan!
Wow! What a great contest! I love the combination of patchwork and applique. Glascow Rose is a beautiful pattern and a big quilt. It is on my list of quilts to complete. That’s my favorite until Bohemian Bouquet came out. It is stunning!
Thanks for the opportunity!
Ohhhhh, I can’t pick a favorite! Love them all so much! Well okay, I love Bohemian Bouquet. Such rich colors! Exquisite detail! Very unique, including a fox where other album type quilts have only birds and bunnies; and the motifs are so rich and lush!
Sorry, I am gushing now so I’ll shut up. Thanks for the opportunity!
Theresa
I really like her works, for me the best is “Banana Layer cake”, an easy way to use the Layer cakes of Moda. I also like very much “By the sea”, a fresh and nice pattern.
My favorite is the Pinata Purse, but all are lovely
I love reading Susan’s blog, she is so inspirational.
I have to admit, my favorite is, The Bohemian Bouquet.
I love the designs and the colors, it is gorgeous!
Debbie
They are all so gorgeous! My favourite is The Bohemian Bouquet…but second, is Heart’s Desire. I love the bright colours, a twist on the traditional.
I am just finishing up the hand quilting on Susan’s “By The Sea” pattern. I love hand applique and this pattern fits in well in my coastal decor. I would love to do her “Bohemian Bouquet” as well. Susan offers a wonderful mix of traditional and art quilt pattens on her site.
Karen
I am still over the moon with the pink petal party pattern. Do I get a prize for having a sentence with consective works beginning with P?? Happy days to all.
I actually read Susan’s blog, so I’ve seen many of these in design stage. I really enjoyed seeing her and her friend sewing Bohemian Bouquet in different colorways. As someone who often messes with the colorways, it’s nice to see a designer showing that on her blog.
I Love the Hearts Desire BOM quilt, but I also the Bohemian Banquet quilt, I Love applique. I can’t wait to order some of her patterns. Thank you for sharing with us.
Polka Party is my favorite pattern on the website because I love bright colors as well as the geometric elements. Hearts Desire is also a favorite because I like hearts as well as the pink/black combo. I’m sure I saw this somewhere…a magazine perhaps? Anyway, I’ve done a few appliqued pieces using fusible web because I hate hand sewing, but I really admire those who take the time to do needle-turned applique.
My vote is for the tulip purse—I love the curved lines.
Loved her tulip bag and can’t help but enjoy seeing Candy Corn! Actually I’m on the fence because I could easily name at least another 5 wonderful patterns too! I also spotted a FREE tab…so must head back over there to see what that is about!
Love Susan’s work. It is great. I can’t even choose a favourite!
This is an amazing quilt! Love the colors on the dark background. I read her blog regularly! Thanks for the inspiration.
Well, I love the bohemian bouquet and the petal party – 2 very different quilts but I can see both of them made up in my house!!
Yes, I would LOVE to win this gorgeous pattern. Bohemian Bouquet is my favorite of Sue’s patterns — the faces of the fox and bunny are what makes this pattern the best. Please pick me!
I love Susan’s designs but my favorite is still Bohemian Bouquet. Hope I win the pattern!
It’s a hard choice but I love the Bohemian Bouquet Quilt.
Especially the little fox in the left corner is a beauty!
I reviewed the patterns on your web site, and also the gallery. I do a lot of needle turn applique, and would LOVE to win this BOM pattern. It is wonderful– but can’t afford to buy it. Thanks for the chance to win it!
Barb
All of Susan’s quilts make me stop and awe but I am now making “Pink Petal Party” and her style “and instructions” are fabulous. I have “Bohemian Bouquet” on my to-do list.
Love the Bohemian bouquet and the Glascow Rose. Although I must say I love all her work *grin*