Aurifil Designer of the Month

Run by industry darling, Pat Sloan, the Aurifil Designer of the Month Program has been a mainstay of the Auribuzz blog since 2011. It all began with Pat’s offer to design a Mystery Block of the Month for Aurifil’s customers in 2010. It was such a success that Pat suggested we continue the block of the month model with the selection of 12 designers per year, introduced via a ‘Designer of the Month’ interview along with one unique quilt block. Every year since then, Pat has assembled a new team of top-notch Designers, featuring one per month throughout the year.

This year I was lucky enough to be invited to be one of the guest designers for the 2020 DOM. The challenge foe 2020 was to create a block inspired by Auifil Color Builders https://www.aurifil.com/color-builders.

There are 12 color builders in the collection and Pat Sloan cleverly assigned each box a corresponding month and Italian City the designer was then asked to create a block inspired by either the color or the city matched to them.

I was asked to work with the fabulous Pompeii Red collection, Immediately I knew what I wanted to make!!

A few years ago we went on a family holiday to Italy and there were fields and fields of the most spectacular vivid Poppies. I hadn’t made any Floral pieces before and felt this was the perfect opportunity to try something new.

Each Designer was also given matching Kona Cotton Solids from Robert Kaufman https://www.robertkaufman.com/

and a base of charcoal Linen also from Robert Kaufman. I began my drafting my applique pattern, cutting each piece and then fusing it to my base , before hooping it up to add all the free motion embroidery details.

It was such a fun project to work on!!

You can read my Interview with Pat Sloan and download the pattern here

https://auribuzz.com/2020/02/15/february-aurifil-designer-of-the-month-kathy-ross/

https://blog.patsloan.com/2020/02/free-february-aurifil-designer-block.html

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