This is my Urban Allotment Quilt. I made it for my neighbors who created a rather unique little vegetable garden in their front yard. They are moving out of the city and will have lots of room for a really big garden on their new property. But this quilt will be a reminder of their little urban garden, which somehow, our neighborhood ground hog never found. One of life’s great mysteries!

I choose the grey borders because their garden is a cluster of round, raised bed, bordered by large rocks.

The rock surrounded raised beds on a snowy day.

I used the Bernina #4 stitch, increasing the stitch length to 2.5 to create the texture in the borders.

This is another quilt in the Japanese Hachi style. The unexpected guests are the chickens! They may be expected on a farm, but clearly not IN the vegetable patch!

The large blueberry print, the cherries and the sugar snap prints are all part of my Dogs at the Farmer’s Market Spoonflower Collection. And the backing of this quilt is the Dogs at the Farmer’s Market feature fabric. The Farmer’s Market is a major event in our urban village, and the print has 2 dogs who they know. More reminders of our neighborhood when they are at their new place!

Here’s the quilt back.

Back in 2015, I made another quilt using the Dogs at my Farmer’s Market Market, fussy cutting the fabrics to make the quilt blocks. This new quilt is very different and it was fun to use the fabrics in a new way.