Silk Path PDF Pattern Gift-Away!

And just where did October go anyway?

Somehow we ended up here - Friday, October 27, 2023 and it is Silk Path PDF pattern and Fabric Roll Gift-Away time!

What does Silk have to do with this quilt obviously made of cotton?

Would you believe me if I told you it all started on a trip to Vietnam in May of 2023?

Here in the high mountain region surrounding Sapa, farming happens on the hillsides in cascading terraces just as it has been done for millennia.

On this day we had traveled a ways out of Sapa to attend a batiking workshop amongst the Hmong – we were all so excited!

There is some from my group on the pathway below.

The scenery was breathtaking –

Our workshop was wonderful – and the elevation? Well – pretty high. And I’m blaming the lack of oxygen to my brain and the excitement of the whole experience with this next moment –

I stopped to get a photo of this fella.

This water buffalo was just there grazing along the side of the road.

I happened to crouch down, thinking I needed to take this photo straight on to fully get him in frame and before I knew it:

Yes, that’s me being walked back to the car by Marnie and Chrissy – my right foot had slid in the mud and down I went into a ditch like the proverbial slip n’ slide experience from my childhood.

There was no way to stop it.  I twisted my left knee badly in the slide.

But quilters do what quilters must.  Back to the hotel to change!

There I am trying to peel out of muddy clothes, and wash myself up enough to put on clean ones and somehow I think that *now* is the time to rummage for my phone and take a photo of the tile wall, because??

I was in pain, and still captivated by the design before me on the wall.

Even the color inspiration came from the bathroom tiles – or perhaps it was the mud I landed in? 

Bathroom tile in the lady’s room at the Silk Path Spa & Resort in Sapa Vietnam.

This interesting motif was the floor of our elevator. I sense a theme! Where is my graph paper?

The Silk Path floors, and bathroom tiles were the inspiration for this quilt.

In any case, the pattern wouldn’t leave me. I was set to graph it out in some form.

And that’s the story -but one more thing:

I was granted the golden water buffalo award for endurance! (Thanks Marnie & Chrissy!)

Silk Path is completely scrappy.  I used many shades of rust-to-brown for my darks and all shades of neutral from white to cream to toasty sand.

The more variety the better is my feeling with a quilt like this.  The more variety you have, the easier it gets when it comes to laying everything out and not having the same fabrics “touch.”

Most of my browns and beiges are likely 1990s to early 2000's prints received in a huge gift box from a destashing quilter friend. The best part? They were already cut in strips!

That meant I could quickly get to sewing - bum knee included.

Silk Path is easily constructed from strip-sewn panels: Sliced, mixed and matched, rearranged and sewn back together! No triangles required. 

Full color photos, step-by-step instructions included.

Quilt Size: 84’’ X 84’’

Introductory Special: I have placed Silk Path at 25 % off in both the digital pattern section of the Quiltville Store and in the Quiltville Etsy Pattern Shop. 

Sale price good through 11/15/23.  Hurry now and save - no coupon needed!

And yes - I'll be drawing for 2 winners who will each receive a Silk Path PDF pattern from me, and a Facets of Brown Color Roll from Cotton to Quilts.

We'll draw for our winners on 11/16/23 upon my return home from visiting my Dad and family in Arizona.

Good luck, everyone!

Of course - you'll be back here on Monday, right? I'll be releasing Part Two of our Star of Hope Sew-Along.

And Tuesday?  Quiltville Winter Mystery Intro goes live!

Wednesday I'll be drawing for our winners in the Summit St Box Gift-Away. There is still time to enter so head on over and get that entry in! SEW CUTE!

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

No matter what the situation, we have the power to choose whether it will bring out the best or the worst in us.

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Leader & Ender Lozenge quilt Pattern found under the Free Patterns tab.

Happy Friday, folks!