Home Sweet Home Quilt

This charming quilt was a fund raiser for a local gardening group. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

Home Sweet Home Quilt

I take inspiration wherever I find it, particularly my garden. This particular quilt was being offered as a raffle prize for a local gardening group. Nestled among living plants for sale, it gave me my garden vibe inside of a building.

applique flowers are part of the garden that doesn’t need water. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

This handmade quilt has several different applique panels with garden-related scenes. Tulips and purple coneflowers are in this panel. I smiled at the actual purple coneflower, which in reality look more pink.

What garden is complete without a bee skep and bees. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

This applique skep was a charming panel. Bees are important garden pollinators.

this block shows the applique detail of the leaves and daffodils. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

Daffodils are a personal favorite spring flower and loved having a panel celebrating those lovely perennial flowers.

glad to see this garden quilt also has a resident eastern bluebird. (charlotte ekker wiggins photo)

And what garden quilt would not be complete without a bird, nature’s pest control. This charming quilt includes an applique bluebird.

I don’t know who won the raffle but whoever did will have a sliver of a garden whenever they curl up with this handmade quilt.

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Charlotte

Fun in Garden Handmade Quilt Wall Hanging

These lollipop flowers have flying friends with those bee buttons. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Fun in Garden Handmade Quilt Wall Hanging

Don’t talk to a Midwest beekeeper in January, all you are bound to hear is how they are missing their bees. That’s right, some of us get quite attached to those little flying bugs and when we don’t get to regularly see them….well, let’s just say I’m in snow and ice-covered mid-Missouri and I’m missing my tiny girls.

When bee-deprived keepers then see a bee, any bee, it’s pure joy and this handmade quilt and wall hanging photo brought a big smile to my face. Can you see why?

Those are bee buttons sewn on the quilted design of lollipop flowers. Honest, I peeked. The yellow looks wonderful against the black and white fabric background. The flowers themselves are quite eye-catching in their bright fabrics and mesmerizing centers.

The flower petals are also interesting, they have strips of patterned fabrics against solid fabrics that add dimension.

I was looking closely at one of the quilted flowers when I was startled by another discovery. See the little green frog in the top left corner?

This is a handmade quilt made into a wall hanging and it proves that small can still be mighty.

The story behind this custom quilt wall hanging is based on falling in love with fabrics. (Photo by Charlotte Ekker Wiggins)

Handmade quilts each have their own story and this one is quite simple, it was all about the fabrics.

Quilters know bad fabric choice can destroy a quilt design and this work of art shows what good fabric choices can do. And bees, don’t forget the bees!

Charlotte