Hey Everyone, welcome back to Coffee Talk Saturday.
It’s my mom’s birthday and a milestone one to boot – 80 years old today. I find it hard to believe that she is 80 as I think every kid believes that their parents will never grow old no matter how old we get.
My mom doesn’t have a lot of wall space in her suite as I’m pretty sure she put up every picture and photo she owns but I know she will make some space for her birthday present – a Bargello Poppy.
I made this piece a year and a half ago when I was creating a piece for the summer 2014 issue of A Needle Pulling Thread magazine (ANPT for short). I had enough Bargello left over to create this second piece of a poppy swaying in the breeze.
[Update: I’ve since created a pattern for both versions of these Bargello Poppy Wall Hangings.]
Both pieces are very different and very striking in the complementary colour scheme of blue and orange. The inspiration for these two pieces came from a field of California Poppies I came across on a visit to California.
Here is the piece I created for the ANPT magazine. Just the poppy with a fuzzy centre couched on with a great variegated yarn that has lots of texture.
Poppy
Once again I used my favourite free motion zigzag stitch to enhance around the petals on both pieces.
Mom’s gift I did small stippling in the background and the ANPT piece I did half a burlap stitch on an angle with some cross hatching.
Close up of stitching
The borders were simple so as not to deter from the beauty of the flowers.
Poppies are a great flower and I had fun creating these two wonderful pieces.
I have now published a pattern with everything you need to create either of these beautiful wall hangings. Go to the Bargello Poppies Quilt Pattern.
Anyway I must go as there is homemade chocolate cake (my mom’s recipe of course) to be eaten and I get a corner piece – the corner’s are the best because that’s where the most icing is.
Happy Birthday Mom!
Happy Quilting!
