Polka Dot Garden Series
July 30th, 2008 by Gayle
The Polka Dot Garden is a series of projects that touch my heart and feed my hunger for all things polka dot. Some will be large, some small, some quilts, some not. I promise they’ll all be fun! I’ve been collecting polka dot fabrics for a long time and there seems to be more and more of them available. I find I like to add stripes and checks to the dots so I’m collecting them too. Not every project will be made from only polka dot fabric but if I keep collecting that just might happen!
The first project is a block of the month quilt Beyond The Cherry Trees. It’s a Block of the Month beginning in Sept. 2009. Each block will be available free online for one month and then retired to the Online Store for purchase. Blocks will be posted by the 10th of each month.
Our second project is the Corsage Bouquet applique quilt from the early 1900s. You can make your own version of this great antique quilt. The design is one of my treasured antique kit quilt designs from the Wurzburg Company. Instructions are for the full size quilt but I’ve included a lap size for you too.
Corsage Bouquet No. 3597 Kit Quilt
You can download the pattern HERE
Oh boy! I can hardly wait to see exactly what grows in a polka dot garden!
Gayle,
I recently came upon your blog and had a chance to read some of your past posts. I was very sorry I missed the Sally Post applique patterns and hope they will be available for purchase soon ( shall have to check out your Online Store). I am looking forward to the Polka Dot Garden quilt and you can bet I won’t be missing this one! Thank you in advance for your generosity.
Alice I.
Maryland
Oh Boy, a new BOM coming. Can’t wait.
Thank you for all you do.
Carol in SW Indiana
Gayle,
This one looks like it will be such fun! Thanks as always for all you do for us…
polkadots looks like lots of fun..can’t wait to see it.
Cannot wait for this one. You do a fantastic job.
I love just loooove polka dots ….my stash over flows my sewing room so as yet I haven’t purchased any….yahoo!! the polka dot garden is just the excuse I needed to indulge in that fantasy….fat quarters here I come….lol…Gayle you are such a power house of information and ideas…I love this one!!
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Ooh!! I can’t wait to see this one. I love gardens and polka dots. Thanks.
Leona
Where can I see a picture or pattern of this Polka Dot Garden Quilt. I love polka dots!
Thanksin advance,
Joyce
I can’t wait! I love BOM’s! You are so nice to post these for free!
Thank you!
Patty
Looking forwards to the Polka dot Garden.
You do come up with some great ideas.
Thanks a bunch, Get it! Cheers
i love polkadots and cant wait to see it. thanks a lot.
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Anxious to see what the Polka Dot Garden is all about. Sounds like an interesting challenge!!
I have always wanted to make a poke dot quilt can’t hard wait to see yours
I can’t wait to see what The Poka Dot Garden” looks like! Your patterns are always very interesting, so I’m sure this new one will be just that….. thanks for the great patterns!
well Gayle my polka dot prayers have been answered!! My girl friend and I are going on a road trip to San Jose California to a “quilty event” there around the 16th of october and then we are going to “shop hop” our way home[or as much as poor church mice CAN shop]…..so I have a question for you??? will the polka dots be all sizes and colours?? [within reason of course I doubt there will be any thing "huge"] It will give me a guide line while I shop! will it be shades of one colour or a mixture of colours??? The polka dot garden looks like a scrap book page! Any chance the project will be the same?? Gayle I can’t wait to see what you have planned…you have the very best kind of imagination…I would like just half your ideas to crop up in my mind from time to time lol
Really looking forward to the Polka Dot Garden! Sounds like something in which I would use my favorite fabrics. When will it begin? Thanks.
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I have just started to collect polka dot fabric so this looks pretty interesting… looking forward to seeing the pattern…
I must be missing the Polka Dot Garden series. Has it started? I cannot find any patterns even after following links. HELP! Where are the patterns and what month did this series begin? Thanks.
Joan,
As far as I know, it hasn’t started yet. I believe there have been some hard decisions to be made regarding fabric choices and whatnot that have slowed down the creating and posting of patterns. If we all hang in there, I’m sure we will be rewarded soon.
Linda
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I was excited to read about this and I’m still curious and anxious to see it but it’s been five months now. Any up date for us Gayle?? You offer us such fabulous projects! Thanks
How much longer do we have to wait on this wonderful Polka Dot Garden,I sure would like to start making it. Thanks again for all those wonderful quilts and your time to put them out there for us.
I LOVE YOUR PATTERNS AND WEBSITE. UNREAL.
How exciting!!!! Look forward to it. I just figured out how to get the baby quilt… Thank you for these great patterns..
Are you going to do this???? It sounds exciting…
Dear Gayle, any idea when we can expect the Polka Dot Garden? I am so excited about it I could just up turn around twice and spit. I have been collecting polka dots for several years. I wore them as a child and never have out grown them. No pressure, just excited. Love your work and appreciate it all. Linda
Hate to be a pest, but where is the Polka Dot Garden patterns? I notice that some people have referred to making the pattern, but with all my searching, I still cannot find it. Please help! Thanks so much!!
Ага, жизнь не может быть идеальной
Did i miss the pattern for the “Polka Dot Garden”?
Please let me know where i can find it…
Sincere thanks in advance for answering my query…
i am a polka dot fanatic and cannot wait to see this one…
Hmmm, looks like she’s given up on this one. I found this site by accident and love the idea of a polka dot quilt. But after one year I don’t think it’s going to happen. Too bad, there are some wonderful patterns on this site and so thoughtful to share them with others. Maybe hard times are upon us all.
yesssss, great idea, but where is the first installment of the “beyond the cherry trees”, can’t find this
I just cant wait.. its wonderful… so glad I found your blog and thanks for sharing all the amazing patterns..:o)
I just love the quilt! Can hardly wait to see the blocks!
A stunning quilt, regardless of its fragile appearance and what a treasure you have.
With Midget blocks, Sally Post, and Shipshewana Amish blocks yet to be completed – I will print out the Beyond the Cherry Trees blocks, but I am sorry to say I have lost all enthusiasm for the other three and am doubtful this one will be completed either.
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Gayle,
The corsage bouquet quilt is beautiful. Thanks you so much. Look forward to doing this one soon
Cathy