I have two quilts featured in the latest edition of the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting magazine. The first was my Louisville Spirit quilt which I talked about previously. The second quilt was my Flamingo Stampede quilt!
Generally, the big brains who pick the patterns that run in the magazine put out a call for submissions around a theme. This edition of the magazine was “birds”. Now… let’s all pause for a moment because I want you to think about what kind of quilt comes to mind when I say “birds”. Well…. what popped up in your brain?
Bird houses? Birds in the Air block? Bird applique? Flying Geese? How about a Flamingo Stampede? Yep, that’s where my brain went, too. 🙂
Here is the Flamingo Stampede quilt and it made the peek a boo window on the cover of the magazine! Have you ever seen a flock of flamingos get spooked? They go every which way and it is a blur of pink feathers and long legs! I chose a group of pink solids and a simple piecing method that relies on flippy corners instead of paper piecing to get the every which way look of the central blocks.
Order the Flamingo Stampede Quilt Kit!
$99.99
The LOQ Flamingo Stampede Quilt Kit highlights the Painter’s Palette Solids collection designed by Paintbrush Studio.
The quilt kit includes the pattern, featured in Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting magazine, as well as all of the yardage required to create the quilt top and binding.
But do take a look at that outside flamingo leg border. Don’t you love it? Again, it is super simple- rectangles and flippy corners to the rescue! I absolutely LOVE borders that have high impact but are easy peasy to piece. I designed and quilted this beauty and my good friend Melanie Peterson pieced it for me.
You can buy the pattern for the Flamingo Stampede quilt as a downloadable from the Quilting Daily site if you’d like!
Also… do you know what a gathering of flamingos is called? The Google machine just told me it is a “Flamboyance”. How awesome is that? See, you get quilting knowledge and biology all wrapped up for you in a bow here at Quilted Joy. 🙂 This is a flamboyant quilt that celebrates a Flamboyance!
I’m Angela- Co-host of the Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting PBS show. APQS Long arm Dealer and Educator. Triplet Momma. Designer. Thread Bimbo.
