Hawaiian Garden

I designed this quilt around the Alfred Shaheen Vintage Panel and painted the border with birds and flowers and FMQ

MQX NE 2016 has called for quilts in their Alfred Shaheen Vintage Panel exhibit and I decided to make one just for relaxed fun. After it was finished, I decided to enter it into the juried part of the show because I liked the way it came out and they waived the entry fee, so why not. I found my beautiful linen panel online and designed the borders around it. I was fortunate to find exactly the right solid colors for the borders, and so I quilted, then painted the light green border. The dark green border is my first venture into ruler work for a show quilt, since all I did was make a row of touching circles using Lisa Calle's new circle rulers with my BERNINA 830. They are hard to see, but I quilted in a frog, a pig, a parrot, and a flying bird in the white background of the central panel and then did a circular twirl fill with that. Fun to make...since I'm competing against some of the country's best quilters, I would be really surprised if it wins anything, but that's ok. It makes me happy.

Maker: Betty Jo Tatum

Quilter: Betty Jo Tatum

Year Made: 2016

Owned By: Pat and Carol Bivens

Size: 36 x 48 inches

Shows & Museums: MQX NE 2016

Awards: NA