Hi guys!
Today is my stop on the Southwest Modern Blog Tour! Yip yippie yippie!
I’ve been really excited about Kristi’s book ever since it came out. Well, since she showed me a sneak peek! (Kristi helped me in my market booth last Spring, so I got alllll the details. Well most of the details. Ahem… We had a good time!) I love Kristi’s designs for their minimalistic designs. What an opportunity to let the color shine!
For my project, I chose to do the Angelos Mini. I need a couple of pillows for some chairs so I figured I would use part of the Angelos mini. My plan was to make 2 like the picture above and below.
But you know what? I just couldn’t resist putting all the colors together in one project. And then I had to make a third! I’m so glad I did!
The colors are so fun together. You know bright colors sometimes just work best in a big party of color. You just can’t separate them!
I LOVE how this mini turned out. I’m planning on turning it into a big floor pillow!
What do you think? With big Big Stitch quilting? Wouldn’t that be fabulous!?
Check out my YouTube video:
For more on how I chose the colors for my Angelos mini, check out my YouTube video. You’ll also get a sneak peak in the book and I’m showing you a cool HST notion, Perfect HSTs, that really helped me make my HST units.
Here’s the rest of the gang participating in the Hop:
- March 8th Mathew Boudreaux of Mister Domestic
- March 9th Rebecca Bryan of Bryan House Quilts
- March 10th Suzy Williams of Suzy Quilts
- March 11th Hillary Goodwin of Entropy Always Wins
- March 12th Michelle Wilkie of Factotum of Arts
- March 13th Christopher Thompson of The Tattooed Quilter
- March 14th Nicole Daksiewicz of Modern Handcraft
- March 15th Sarah Thomas of Sariditty
- March 16th Karen Lewis of Karen Lewis Textiles
Giveaway:
Contest rules are below:
1. Follow me by signing up for my newsletter AND follow Kristi Schroeder @initialkstudio on instagram
2. Please comment on this blog post to be entered to win. Tell me your favorite vacation location (such a poet am I!?). Bonus entries occur for contestants who comment/like on the IG Post by the Blogger.
3. Winner will be announced Monday.
Also note, Kristi is having a Grand Prize Giveaway at the end of the blog hop courtesy of the following sponsors.
2. FQ bundle by Robert Kaufman
3. FQ bundle by Me & You Fabrics
4. Southwest Modern Thread Collection by Aurifil
We vacation hardly ever!! Honeymooned in Hawaii. It was pretty spectacular!!
I love Hawaii but most of our vacation resources get used up visiting family in Alaska.
I have many vacay spots I love, but Truth or Consequences, NM is just down the road and it’s sooo relaxing. And fits this giveaway!
Lake Tahoe has always been a fun vacation spot for our family.
Love the solid fabric and will get the book. I have traveled the world and love the water. My favorite place would have to be Italy and France especially the riviera.
Your beautiful mini will make an awesome pillow! My favorite vacation spot is Sante Fe, New Mexico. We’ve been there 3 times and each time, I love it more! Next year, we’re heading to Hawaii…maybe that will be my new favorite!
I like your quilt. I’ve never made a quilt with solids yet. I like to vacation at my sister’s cabin in northern Minnesota.
Your mini will make a colorful beautiful pillow. We like to vacation near Phoenix Arizona.
My favorite vacation location is California because that’s were both of my children live and there is sooooo much to do and see out there.
I already receive your newsletter and I follow both you & initialkstudio on IG. My favorite vacation spots so far have been the Caribbean (Jamaica, Bahamas, Mexico, Belize, Cayman Islands). I feel so at home in the tropics. But the world is a big place so who knows what I will love next.
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My favorite vacation place is The Great Smokey Mountains. I love your mini quilt. Thanks for sharing.
My favourite holiday was to Alaska if I could have stayed there I would have. Mountains, ocean, forests and wildlife. What more can you ask for.
Love your mini, the colors are wonderful! Fav place to vacation is Marco Island.
Striking pattern! My fav vacation spot is the family cabin on Lake Superior.
So far my favorite vacation spot has been Hawaii…I don’t know if we’ll make it back there though. There are too many other places we want to go! That mini is gorgeous!
I loved this book the first time I saw it. Your Angelos Mini is great with the various colors. I received your newsletters and recently signed up for Initial K Studios. Oh, I love to visit the beach every summer. Last year we went to the Maryland Shore. Thanks for the the giveaway. grinnie1961 at gmail dot com
Hmmm best vacation spot, has to be hawaiii, the views and ocean is incredible! How do people leave!!
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I fell in love with our trip to Maui a while back and dream almost daily of going back! Truth is…it was paradise!
I thought Cancun was the Garden of Eden …those blue waters and skies reach to the heavens. I receive your newsletter and follow Kristi on IG.
My favorite vacation ever was our honeymoon in Italy.
My favorite vacation spot at the moment is the Hill Country in Texas. I love the rivers, rolling hills and quaint German towns.
Re your quilt: all I can say is wow, what perfect points! You must share your technique!
Pfffffttttt don’t look too close!
If there’s any secret it’s in trimming the HSTs.
Oh my goodness – thanks for the chance at this giveaway!
I would say my favourite vacation spot would be a toss up between my husband’s homeland of Israel – amazing combination of ancient and modern, and the sweet, sweet Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands here in Canada. So perfect in the sunny summer!
Thanks again!
For big vacations we usually go to somewhere we haven’t been before; but, for a smaller vacation I would always choose the Oregon Coast.
This looks gorgeous!! My favorite vacation was going to Hawaii with my track team, so much fun mobbing around on scooters! Looking at these quilts makes me want to travel to the southwest!! ❤️❤️
Oh yeah? That would be fun.
I ran track too! I actually competed in Idaho one time. I can’t remember which university. It was an indoor conference championship for the WAC I believe. It’s been a little while, ha!
Thanks for sharing your process for color selection. Your mini turned out great! I don’t have a single favorite vacation location but enjoy visiting our national parks. I follow Kristi on IG and am subscribed to your newsletter.
We love to travel and there are so many spots we’ve been to that will stay in my heart forever. I’ll put Machu Picchu as a favourite. Words don’t do it justice!
My favorite vacation location is Albuquerque, New Mexico especially in October!
We go to fFlorida each summer but the coast of Georgia is peaceful and beautiful!
Well I’m from New Mexico but now live in Greece, so the best placr to vacation is Greece!
I love Colorado!
Favorite spot is bonaire! Most beautiful water and underwater life for diving, and not over developed!
My favorite place to vacation is in Kauai, Hawaii. So warm and relaxing!
Hawaii is the best, but I also love going local in the PNW. Hoping to win the book!
I love all the colours together! Most of our holidays are spent visiting family in Scotland (which I love!) but my dream vacation would be going back to Japan.
I love traveling to beautiful Greece!
I shared the giveaway on Instagram.
The South Jersey beaches (Avalon, Stone Harbor or Sea Isle) are my favorite vacation spots.
Part of me wants to say “home” vacations are the best, but I also really like going to quilt retreats! My favorite is at Bishops Ranch in Healdsburg, CA.
Lake Tahoe is my favorite vacation location. It works for winter (skiing, etc.) and summer (kayaking, hiking).
I really like going to cuba, usually go every year or the dominican, l like your choice of colors in your mini , l follow both also.
A fabulous piece you are working on! Love the colors!
I love to vacation at Noosa Heads, Sunny Queensland, Australia!
Your choice of colors is terrific. Great interpretation of the design.
My favorite vacation is the one and the place I am! Really! Have been lucky to tag along with my husband on many of his working trips, and every place we are is my favorite. Although one time I got to go to NYC for eight days with a friend and we had so much fun going to museums during the days and then to theatre for the evenings. I so enjoyed that time! We spent one day just walking and ended up seeing wonderful places and stores.
Thanks for the chance.
Jekyl Island Georgia was always a favorite with my family. Anyplace near the ocean or gulf is fine with me.