Designer Pat Sloan has a Yahoo group and last year posted a series of block patterns called Farmer's Market. Many did it as a complete wall-hanging but I decided to do some of the blocks separately to use on a small wall-hanger in my kitchen. Last year I did the strawberries and this year the corn. There are some others in the series I like but haven't done yet. I'm not happy with the workmanship on the corn, though. I prefer the machine applique stitching on the strawberries and I'm much happier with the binding on the strawberries. (I did the binding on the corn totally by machine....and I still haven't mastered doing that very well....but I'll keep trying.)
Designer Pat Sloan has a Yahoo group and last year posted a series of block patterns called Farmer's Market. Many did it as a complete wall-hanging but I decided to do some of the blocks separately to use on a small wall-hanger in my kitchen. Last year I did the strawberries and this year the corn. There are some others in the series I like but haven't done yet. I'm not happy with the workmanship on the corn, though. I prefer the machine applique stitching on the strawberries and I'm much happier with the binding on the strawberries. (I did the binding on the corn totally by machine....and I still haven't mastered doing that very well....but I'll keep trying.)
14 comments:
cute idea Pat
They look good to me!!!
adorable!
They look good enough to eat Pat!We've just picked our first ripe strawberry here but I didn't get to eat it!!
very cute.
:)
What a nice idea for these cute blocks Pat. The corn looks wonderful to me, Bob really liked it (he would eat corn at every meal if I didn't make him eat "green stuff" LOL).
Crispy
Traditional binding as on the strawberry is such a time-consuming process, so I'm always looking for short cuts too. If my attempts look as good as your corn, I'll be happy. Both adorable for summer!
I tend to stick to the tradional way of binding cause I can't get my machine binding to look anywhere close to the way yours looks...
Like them both...
I love them, what a wonderful idea....
Pat they both are great...I have done machine binding a few times, not so good.....so I stick to the tradional...
Very cute. I think your binding looks fine. You know, no one looks at the binding except maybe another quilter.
I really like the look of hand sewn binding but my fingers go to sleep when I do hand work so I only hand sew on gifts. Your appliques look great.
They both look great to me! Wonderful idea for a small area in a kitchen.
Adorable! Great job.
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