Spring Garden Quilt by Running Stitch Quilts

Julie at Running Stitch Quilts is one of the best to test patterns for. She's laid back, low stress, and the patterns are always perfect to begin with. When I got an email about the Spring Garden Quilt pattern test, I was busy with some other projects and let Julie know that I would probably just make one block. I delayed starting a bit and when I finally picked the pattern to start, I decided on a whim to make the baby size.  Below is the finish top right after I finished it.

My entryway has a glass block wall facing the front door. The other side of the glass blocks is my bedroom. I've had the idea to hang a small throw or a large wall hanging there for each season and holiday. But, I've been slow to make anything more than my mushroom table runner that I put up on the glass block wall for fall.

I decided that the baby size of the Spring Garden Quilt would be the perfect fit for the Glass Block Wall - and it would be perfect for Spring. I won't lie - this quilt will likely be hanging until October when my Dia de Los Muertos Quilt will go in it's place. 

Since I was going to be seeing this quilt a lot, I pulled out lots of beautiful fabrics by Anna Maria Horner for it. I wanted the colors to reflect the normal range of flowers that I often grow. The dark fuchsia reminded me of the Oleander we have all around the front of our house. The lighter pinks are for the Japanese Magnolia, Azaleas, and Pentas.

There are two blue flowers on my quilt. They are for the Bluebonnets, Bluebells, and the blue Morning Glories that I love to grow.

The purple are for the Passionflower Vines, Verbena, and  Salvia. 

The Yellow center flower  is for the Coreopsis and Daffodils.

The flower blocks come together by making 4 different basic blocks. It's fairly straight forward, but isn't a super easy or quick quilt. It's not heard, but it does take a little more time than a basic beginner pattern. The pattern did take me a little longer to make because I did take extra steps to make bonus blocks from the cutoff pieces from the snowballed blocks. I don't like for any pieces to go to waste and put my bonus half square triangle blocks aside in my bonus block box for future use. 

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