All these ideas that run through your head for new projects!!!! Just yesterday I was reading a blog – Exuberant Color – Wanda was talking about a lot of blocks that she had pieced together that are in the “vanilla” category – whites/beige/tan/very light gray ect. and it totally reminded me of a pattern I picked up last year at the Madison Quilt Expo 2008 – Wisconsin. I guess because I had been posting some photo’s of that quilt show the last couple days it was in my mind. The colors on the patchwork in the background of this pattern are darker beige’s than what Wanda had but the idea is the same.
I had gotten the pattern at the vendor booth from the Primitive Gatherings store which is located in Wisconsin; I’m not quite sure where the store is – I think it is northeast of Madison (maybe an hour away?) – maybe some of my Wisconsin readers know where the store is? I didn’t see an address on their web site. I couldn’t find the pattern either but I did get it almost a year ago so I couldn’t post a link to it here so I am taking a picture of the pattern so you can see it. It is a very simple old fashioned looking quilt - country style -there was just something about it that I liked — so why haven’t I made it!!! The pattern designer is Julie Feidt. I could find no link to her name or patterns.
This is a great pattern that a person could use a patchwork of whites/beige/tan and then really spice it up with bright color flowers from their stash of scraps. This could be a totally scrap quilt. One day I will make it — when I do not know 
So I wonder on average how many patterns do y’all have stashed away that you really want to make but most likely well never get around to doing because you are constantly finding new patterns that you add to your stash? I have at least 15 patterns stacked up waiting in line and that is not counting all of the patterns in the magazines that are stacked up with pages marked indicating that there was a pattern in the magazine that had caught my eye — and that is not counting the over 30 quilting books that have patterns (plural) in them that caught my eye which was the reason why I bought the books to begin with
What is a quilter to do — so much eye candy out there and just not enough time to make them all!!
July 19th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
That’s a great pattern. Primitive gatherings has a shop in the Appleton Area in Menasha. It is a fabulous shop.
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July 19th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Ohhh yes!!!! I think I will need to live until I’m about 150 to get through all the quilts I want to make. I waaasss going to start no new quilts this year…..well I lasted about 6 months!!! I have several I am working on at the moment, a new BOM I signed up for last week and who knows what I will see when I go to our local craft fair this week!!! I have only been quilting for less than 4 years and I am doing my best to make up for lost time! I’m not game enough to count up how many patterns I have……….too many!!!
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July 20th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I have at least 35 patterns that are on my “to do” list for real. The ones I want to do, but aren’t actually on the list number in the hundreds…lol….Maybe if I spent a year or two not going to quilt shops and off the internet I’d get more accomplished…that’s probably not going to happen though.
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July 20th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Hmmm, I must have at least 20 books which are devoted to just one quilt but LOTS of other books (not necessarily quilting) that have inspired ideas. I am a great collector of individual patterns from the internet in the form of BOMs. I have around 40 individual blocks in my TODO EQ project file and a “few” original quilt designs too. I figure what I get done I get done what I don’t I won’t worry about. It’s just fun having them
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Crispy
July 20th, 2009 at 7:55 am
Two million, four hundred seventy two thousand, and six patterns! Kidding, of course but it seems like that many.
And I am hooked on Primitive Gatherings patterns and kits. I have three going right now! blessings, marlene
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July 20th, 2009 at 8:51 am
Oh I am afraid. Very afraid! If I started gathering all the patterns and books of quilts that I just “must do” I would never find the time to actually sew.
Oh wait…. I’m doing that already!
lol
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July 20th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I have about 30 little tags I can see coming out of the tops of all the books and magazines I have been collecting, and I know I have a couple of kits, plus a BOM that will be starting in November… So many choices, so little time!
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July 20th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
sounds like you all area as bad off as I am – more than I can ever get done with!
thanks Chris for telling me about where the Primitive Gatherings shop is, I will be on a look out for it next year – I won’t be back up there this year.
July 20th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
I have more patterns/wish list/to do’s, then time allows. I have one block of the month quilt waiting to be assembled (from 2008), one in progress (2009, 2nd block done), one free style (started 2008), and many ideas stored away. I always thought that this was ‘normal’. LOL
July 20th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
yes Nancy I think this is very normal for quilters – we keep finding more things to make and not enough time to finish them – I think we need to be like cats and have more than 7 lives!