Hi friends!  I hope you had an excellent week!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

I chose to go with some super-bright, high contrast colors this week. I thought of the La Paloma print right away, because I am currently working on a quilt using it! Then it was just a matter of finding coordinating blenders!

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Here are the fabrics I chose:

Alexander Henry, Folklorico, La Paloma

Lizzy House, Pearl Bracelets in Tulip

Karen Lewis, Blueberry Park, Scruffy Daisy in Goldfish

Alison Glass, Sunprints 2016, Grow in Straw

Robert Kaufman House Designer, Spot On, Pin Dot in Violet

Kaffe Fasset Collective, Aboriginal Dot in Plum

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

In An Otter Life

123 Quilt

 The Zen Quilter – Carrie is joining us for the first time this week, so be sure the stop by and leave her some comment love!

Here’s a silly one for next week… I think this sums up how Trina and I are both feel as summer comes to a close! 

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

On July 22, a fire in Bothell, WA completely destroyed 15 businesses on the town’s historic Main Street. A local fabric shop, Keepsake Cottage Fabrics, is collecting blocks to make quilts to comfort the owners of those businesses.

I took some time last night to sew up some blocks. They’re asking for 6 inch (finished), red and white nine-patch blocks made using 2 1/2 inch squares.

If you’d like to join in, they have said you can make blocks and either bring them in to the shop (if you’re local) or send them to:

Keepsake Cottage Fabrics

818 238th St SE

Bothell, WA 98021

Happy Sewing!  ~L

We are halfway through summer break here in Washington, and I feel like we’re just starting to settle in. Of course, that means all the stores are now pushing back-to-school products!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

I really expected to get a lot of yellow out of this photo, but when I started picking, I was surprised to find mostly beige! I decided to go with a geometric and modern bundle with just a little bit of nature mixed in.

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Here are the fabrics I chose:

AGF Nature Elements, Coffee Liqueur

Sarah Watson, Birds Eye View, Tapestried in Green

Rosemarie Lavin, Isadora

Bonnie Christine, Hello Bear, Follow me in Moonlight

Maureen Cracknell, Nightfall, Luminaries Gold

Another Point of View, Candyland

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

(Trina is taking the week off to celebrate her daughter’s birthday, but will be back with us next week!)

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

123 Quilt

Jennifer Lewis

Cloth and Paper Studio

Here is next week’s photo- another from my garden!

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

Happy Friday!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

I took this photo out my car window on our drive home from Yellowstone. I only wish a photograph could have done justice to how gorgeous it really was!

I went straight to the rainbow when selecting colors, and I just stayed there!  I loved the greyed-out spectrum I was getting.

This week, I decided to feature some of my fellow indie fabric designers who sell their designs on Spoonflower. I encourage you to take a look at their amazing work!

Here are the fabrics I chose (links will take you directly to the designer’s page for that fabric where you can make a purchase!):

peacouquettedesigns, Linen Lux, Dauphine

lifebymom, Arrows 3: Tan

courtneycundiff, Light Green with White Dots

charlottewinter, Soft Blue Dots

andrea_lauren, Woodgrain Faux Bois, Woodland Forest Trees

honey+fitz, Connect the Blocks, Wisteria

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

In An Otter Life

123 Quilt

Jennifer Lewis

Cloth and Paper Studio

Here is next week’s photo!

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

Happy Friday! I hope you all had a fabulous week. If you’re a new follower from the 2016 New Quilt Blogger Blog Hop, welcome to Color Play Friday!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

A few weeks ago, we did another picture with Purplishous. In that photo, there was a lot of red in the background that I felt like I should include in my bundle to challenge myself.  I wanted another shot at making a Purplishous-inspired bundle (without the red), so I picked this photo of Trina’s for today.

I really wanted to focus just on the pretty teals and purples this time around. I have to say, I picked that Lizzy House unicorn print without even registering that it looks an awful lot like our little friend Purplishous!  I wonder if anyone else will chose that fabric this week.

Here are my fabric selections:

Bonnie and Camille, Vintage Picnic, Dot in Aqua

Tula Pink, Eden, Mosaic in Glacier

Lizzy House, The Lovely Hunt, Fairy Rings in Lavender

Lizzy House, The Lovely Hunt, Unicorn Tapestry in Purple

Lecien, L’s Modern Basics, Stripes in Purple

Laura Gunn, Painter’s Canvas in Purple

** I used the Design Wall feature on Stash Fabric’s website to choose this bundle. My links this week will take you directly to Stash’s website. They are not affiliate links; I just love the company!**

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

In An Otter Life

Jennifer Lewis

Next week’s photo is one of mine, taken out of my car window on our drive home from Yellowstone a couple of years ago.

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

Welcome to Week 3 of the 2016 New Quilt Bloggers Blog Hop!

I’m thrilled to be participating this year with so many awesome bloggers! I’ve met some great people and we’ve had fun sharing advice and ideas.

The blog hop is split into three hives:

Hive Sewciety, led by Stephanie from Late Night Quilter

The Sewcial Network, led by Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl

And last, but certainly not least, my hive: Miss Bee Hivin’ led by Cheryl from Meadowmist Designs

At the bottom of this post, you’ll find a list of all my hive mates who are participating in the Hop this week.

So, let me introduce myself! My name is Lorinda Davis and I’ve been blogging here for just over a year. My quilting journey began back in the spring of 2013 when my (then home schooled) children each made a quilt block for a Civil War project. I was intrigued by the way the block changed so dramatically as a result of the kids’ different color and fabric choices. And as they say, the rest is history…. from that moment, I was hooked.

Over the last year, I’ve been building this blog, starting my fabric design portfolio, and have even started working on writing some quilt patterns.

Here are a few more tidbits about me:

Favorite color: Green, pink, purple, and blue… not necessarily in that order. Making me choose a favorite seems unfair.

Middle name: Belle (also my favorite Disney princess. I want her library.)

Favorite (non-quilty) pastimes: Hiking with my family, reading, singing and playing piano

Dream vacation: Tour of Europe with tons of time to really see things, visit museums, and get to know some locals. More realistically, my family has been itching for a Disney World trip lately.

If I could have one super-power: Super-speed! I could do so many fun things!

Here are some of my favorite projects over the last year.

Megan Tote

Black and White Sparkler

Shimmer Quilt

And here’s a quilt top I just finished a couple of weeks ago. You can find the free pattern here.

So, my question for you is this: What is your favorite thing about quilting?

For me, it’s the ‘bookends’ of a project… planning it and then hand binding it at the very end.

As promised, here is a list of all my hive mates who are participating in the Hop this week. Be sure to visit them all to find out more about them and their work. That’s really the best part of the Hop- getting to know new people!

Jen @ Patterns By Jen

Heide @ Heide’s Quilty Hugs

Ann @ Brown Paws Quilting

Velda @ GRANNYcanQUILT

Happy Sewing!  ~L

How is everyone this lovely Friday? I’m hoping to have some fun adventures this weekend, how about you? But first- it’s Friday, so let’s do a little Color Play!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

These gorgeous Forget-me-nots started growing in my garden a few years back and I just love them. The color on them is so vivid!

Here are the fabrics I chose for this garden- inspired bundle:

Alison Glass, Sunprint, Grow in Straw

Amy Butler, Love, Sunspots Olive

Sarah Jane, Sommer, Garden

Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Fingerpainting in Blue

Michael Miller, Ta Dot, in Violet

Eric Carle, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Fingerpainting in Purple

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

In An Otter Life

Sarah Goer Quilts

Jennifer Lewis

Cloth and Paper Studio

For next week, we have another picture of Purplicious. I wanted another shot at a purple bundle WITHOUT the bother of the red background we had in the previous Purplicious picture.  

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

July is here, and I’m finally starting to feel like I’m settling in to summer break!

Color Play Friday is hosted by Trina from In An Otter Life and myself. If you’re new to Color Play Friday, head over to my Color Play Friday page to see the rules and my palettes and bundles from previous weeks. You can also search #colorplayfriday on Instagram to see lots of past palettes and bundles.

I chose this photo of Trina’s knowing that I would want to do a Fourth of July-themed bundle. As I started picking colors, I realized that I wasn’t going to get a classic red, white and blue from this picture. But those dusky blues and beautiful reds screamed at me… “Riley Blake!” So off I went to the Riley Blake website to find this fun bundle.

Here are the fabrics I chose:

Zoe Pearn, Lucky Star, Argyle in Navy

Lori Whitlock, Playball 2, Plaid in Blue

Deena Rutter, Offshore, Dot in Red

Riley Blake, 2015 Basics, Red Star

Samantha Walker, Fly Aweigh, Lures in Yellow

Simple Simon and Company, Four Corners, Weave in Gold

A note about scale:

• While I believe scale is a very important part of fabric selection, the fabrics shown in my Color Play images are not always perfectly to scale. I do my best, by you should always double check scale before ordering!

Don’t forget to head over to the other blogs and see what they came up with! The fun of Color Play Friday is seeing the differences and similarities between everyone’s bundles.

Participants this week:

Laurel and Pine (that’s me!)

In An Otter Life

123 Quilt

Jennifer Lewis

Cloth and Paper Studio

Our photo next week comes courtesy of my garden! I love these vivid Forget-me-nots.

Are you enjoying Color Play Friday? We’d love for you to get in on the fun and create your own Color Play post! You can create a bundle of fabric, select yarns or embroidery threads, or create a project inspired by our photo. Be sure to let Trina or I know so we can link up to you. You can get in contact with us at colorplayfriday@gmail.com

Click below to sign up for the monthly Color Play Friday newsletter. In it, you will find a recap of the month’s bundles from Trina and I, updates from both Laurel, Poppy and Pine and In An Otter Life, and announcements about upcoming special events.

I hope you can join us next week!

Happy Sewing, ~L

Remember a back in May when I encouraged you to ‘see the future’ and embrace the creative possibility in the everyday things around you?

I showed you this…

…some graph paper doodles of my daughter’s that got me thinking of a new quilt design. (I should note that I did get her permission before designing a quilt based on her drawings!)

Today, I’m thrilled to say that those doodles have become a block -aptly named Lauren’s Doodle Block- that will be appearing in the 2017 Quilter’s Planner.

If you didn’t get yourself a Quilter’s Planner in 2016, let me just tell you- the thing is amazing! This is not just a regular planner with calendar, to-do lists, etc. In there, you also get project planning pages, full quilt patterns from AMAZING designers, quilting reference pages, lots of doodling space, and a new block every week from members of the awesome online quilting community.

I’m so happy to be a part of that group this year!

To learn more and to get on the mailing list for info about the 2017 Quilter’s Planner, visit quiltersplanner.com

So, let’s get to the block, shall we?

The magic in Lauren’s Doodle Block happens when you repeat the block and start to see all those plus signs come together. Here are nine blocks set into a 3×3 grid. This would make a perfect 36″ square baby quilt.

Or you could go for a lap quilt with a 5×6 block layout.

I’ll let you decide on a quilt size yourself, but here’s what you’ll need for one block:

The finished block will measure 12.5 inches.

From fabrics A, B, C and D

(4) 2.5″ squares of each

From fabrics E and F

(1) 2.5″ squares of each

From fabric G

(2) 2.5″ squares

From Fabric H

(6) 2.5″ squares

(2) 2.5″ x 6.5″ rectangles

(2) 2.5″ x 4.5″ rectangles

Using a scant quarter inch seam, assemble rows as shown in diagram, pressing as indicated by arrows.

Sew rows together, nestling seams to line up points. Press open, spinning seams wherever possible.

To spin seams:

Press seam to set. Cut the 2-3 stitches that are in the seam allowance.  Start to finger press the seam, spinning the seam allowance in the direction the nestled seams are already pressed.  Press seam from back of the block, then front.

And I figured while I was making one block, I might as well make eight more and get a baby quilt out of the deal!

Here are the fabric requirements for the 36″ square baby quilt shown here:

 
Fabrics A, B, C, and D

1 FQ or quarter yard

Fabrics E, F and G

Scraps or 5″ x WOF

Fabric H

3/4 yard

I hope you enjoy the block, and I’d love it if you tagged me on Instagram (@laurelpoppyandpine) if you make one!

Happy Sewing! ~L

Hi Friends! Just a quick post today to share with you my latest blocks from the Modern HST Sampler QAL hosted by Alyce at Blossom Heart Quilts.

We are halfway through our quilt-along and I have really enjoyed it so far. The blocks are getting more complicated, but they still work up fairly quickly. I love the instant gratification of finishing each block.

I got a bit behind during the end of the school year, so yesterday I took a little time and got caught up. Here are my blocks for the last 6 weeks.

Block # 10   Faceted Stripe

Instead of one of these blocks in all the same color, I decided to make two sets of HSTs and vary my colors a bit. Then I accidentally got lipstick on one of my orange Oval Elements HSTs (quilting fail!). Instead of making a new HST unit, I found some HSTs made with the orange Oh Clementine crosshatch in my stash and added those in. Mistakes are just design opportunities! Lol

Block #11 Starshine

Block #12 Rockpool

So that’s it! I’m glad to be caught up and am looking forward to seeing what Alyce brings us next.

Happy Sewing, ~L