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I have been collaborating with Kate Conklin on another project. Kate is so much fun to work with.

Kate Conklin has designed and made another fantastic quilt. This time she has taken the Forest Elementals range and put her own unique style of quilting into it. I think it is fabulous.




I invited Kate to share her story about making the quilt she called Siera's Forest:

Kate: I fell in love with the Elk Landscape fabric as soon as I saw it.  The forest scene is so serene and beautiful and the magenta and gold are so rich and warm. To me the fabric design has a Scandinavian feel, and being part Finnish I was really drawn to it.  I wanted to showcase the panel as a piece of artwork hanging on a wall, or as a scene viewed through a window. The stripes above and below represent the dense forest with elk, birds and geese peeping through. The free form stack and slash method of construction makes it quick and easy to put together and I love that wonky look.

The back features the striking Birds on Leaves fabric with slightly wonky strip piecing down the side. 

I machine quilted white wavy lines across it at varying intervals and then hand quilted around the blocks in Perle Cotton No. 8 in purple. My Sister in Law, Sierra was awestruck the moment she saw it and I was powerless against her exclamation of "That's the most amazing quilt I've ever seen!", hence it became "Sierra's Forest".

You can see more images on Kate's blog and my Flickr page.

This sure is beautiful. Thank you Kate.


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