American Bouquet

This is the twenty-first quilt I’ve made for the hospital quilters at Intermountain Medical Center. It looks scrappy, but the entire top was made using prints from the American Bouquet collection by Faye Burgos for Marcus Fabrics. Most of the blocks are seven-patch designs, meaning they were drawn on a 7x7 grid. Twelve were assembled in October 2014 from Patchwork Party laser-cut kits. The other eight were made from a pack of fat eights in the same line. (Actually, there were nine extra blocks. Maybe the last orphan block should become a throw pillow.) This month I found matching fabric to make the sashes and cornerstones, borders and binding at one of the Patchwork Party shops: Fabric Essentials in Concordia, Kansas. I’m still astounded that they were carrying so much of what I needed nearly four years later. I took the top to Quilter’s Lodge in Draper to choose a back, and it went off to the quilters Monday.