Coyote Blog Hop and Giveaway
Hawthorne threads collection Coyote is a beautiful collection of mint greens, peach, mustard, greys floating in a background of crisp white. Printed in house, this collection of intricately sketched elements from a trip to Death Valley, combines the wild splendour of fauna and flora from the region.
I asked for prints that could be fussy cut to make a large pillow but as I started cutting into the fabric my design expanded and I ended up making a small quilt. I could have kept going but was limited by the amount of fabric I had. The setting triangles are Manchester dyed yarn in Taupe.
It was one of those quilt designs on the go. Starting with a hexagon, progressing to a octagon and finishing with a rectangle. I made use of the Jaybird rulers I had on hand to create these shapes.
Quilted in a simple design using Aurifil 2312 50wt cotton. Backed with my favourite IKEA print.
The in house prints from hawthorne threads a printed on a premium quality cotton. It sews and quilts beautifully, with a soft touch and drape. In addition to 32 prints, Hawthorne threads have printed a backing panel 56″ x 72″ to complete your quilted masterpiece.
Visit these blogs to see the amazing projects made using Coyote.
20th April – Simple Simon and Company
21st April – Sewbon
22nd April – Holly Gets Quilty
23rd April – Telafante
24th April – Quilt Jane
25th April – Hawthorne Threads
As part of the blog hop, Hawthorne Threads will be giving away a FQ bundle of Coyote. To enter, leave a comment on this post or visit my IG feed @quiltjane (Look for the picture of the finished quilt) and tell me which is your favourite desert plant or animal.
Entries close midnight 25th April 2015.
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98 Comments
kshackabq
Oh my goodness, that's a wonderful quilt and beautiful fabric. My hubby and I used to camp and explore Death Valley almost annually. Now we live in New Mexico, so don't get back there. This is giving me the bug to do so! Great quilt!
kshackabq
Oh — forgot to say. My favorite desert animal is a roadrunner. We have them here too!
Pamela Neal
Your quilts are stunning! I'd have to say my favorite desert animal is the iguana…they have the most beautiful colors if you ever looked closely at one.
Michele T
The Prickly Pear Cactus is one of my favourite desert plants!
Pam
This quilt is awesome. Love the design. I would choose the coyote.
Afton Warrick
I really love that roadrunner. We see them crossing roads and parking lots here in Albuquerque.
Betsy
The cactus, it is also delicious fried!
Liz
A favourite desert plant would be Cactus. So many different kinds and some are stunning to look at.
Scrapatches
I have never been to the desert but your wonderful quilt almost transports me there. As a child I raised cactus on the south facing windowsills here is the northeast. These prickly plants facinated, especially when they bloomed. So I would have top say cactus are my favorite desert plants. Thank you for the chance to win this facinating fabric …
Pat
Peaches1003
I'm going to be completely unoriginal and say cactus. I kept thinking of animals and then thinking "is that a desert one?" Anyway, your quilt is gorgeous. All the makes I've seen with this fabric are loVely
Birlot
I love the cactus to, although the coyote is a close second
Ellee
The roadrunner is my favorite for sure! — soparkaveataoldotcom
usagypsy
So pretty! I took a trip to Death Valley after a very rainy season. The desert was so alive with colors! Just beautiful! I am partial to the coyote. I loved camping in the desert and listening to their midnight yipping.
Susan Troyanek
I love your quilt – the cute coyote heads, the roadrunners, your beautiful quilt stitching. This is so beautiful!
Béa
Wonderful quilt and fabric. I don't know desert plante or animal
Martina
Wow, amazing. I love the coyote very much!
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Mae Long
An absolutely stunning quilt! Not sure I know much about the desert but I like cacti.
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Karin
This is a great design, and the colors are amazing. Shows, that they don't have to be bright all the time, nice soothing colors, realy like it
Glenda
Your quilt and all your wok is stunning, you inspire me with every post. Despite its sometimes bad press, my favourite desert animal is the dingo!!
Carla Shiver
I like joshua trees .
Jeanie
Stunning quilt! Lizards….I love lizards basking in the sun! Thanks so much!
Lee
I really like chuckwallas!
Lisa Marie
I haven't been to the desert much, but roadrunners look rather interesting (and maybe a bit silly) from the photos I've seen. Also, a cactus that blooms brightly in the barren desert seems like a fascinating thing. Lovely fabrics and wonderful quilt!
Jayne
I love your pillow! The fabric is really quite beautiful! I don't really like scorpions, but I find them fascinating!
Suze
The quilt is amazing! I'd say my favorite desert plant is the cactus. Having lived with lots of foliage it was quite an adjustment when I visited my daughter who lives in the desert, When I saw that she had pebbles for a yard instead of grass, I was stunned. Now, when I visit I'm used to it and it's still foreign to me since I have one of the largest lawns in the neighborhood, It's just a difference in culture that makes life interesting.
Vicki in MN
I love birds so it has to be the roadrunner.
JoyceLM
Lovely quilt. The camel is my favorite desert animal. Thanks.
Ella and Nesta
Your quilt is so beautiful! Great fussy cutting too. I love cacti. They even survive my "black" thumb!
Carin@Ullhärvan
I like the camels!
Hildy
Deserts make me always think of the Disney movie 'The Living Desert'. My favorite scene there is where the bobcat runs up the cactus … I just love cats!
Lynda
this fabric caught my eye immediately, but was shocked at the price of it. With my budget I will probably never own it but I am really wanting to see it in person
Debbie
Your quilt is stunning! My favorite desert creature would have to be the road runner. I love birds of all kinds and I loved the Road Runner cartoons growing up-he always got the best of the coyote!
Amy's Crafty Shenanigans
I love the coyote and roadrunner!!!!
Linda
SUCH NEAT FABRICS!
LOVE YOUR PILLOW!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
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Linda
SUCH A NEAT QUILT!
LOVE THE BIRDS TOO!
THANKS FOR SHARING!
msstitcher1214@gmail.com
Michelle Olsen Sasak
I love the elf owls that live in the desert!
barbara woods
is that a road runner or just a chicken?
JanAngel55
I'd have to say the coyote. It is such a wondrous, gruff creature that lives by the law of the land. As you can tell I do love coyotes. Thank You for the giveaway and I hope I win. janicelashley@gmail.com
colleen
Coyote in this fabric is my fav
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Marianne
I lived in way south Texas near the border for five years. Always liked the roadrunners! Thanks!
Carol
My favourite 'animal' is the roadrunner but sometimes I'm tempted to root for the coyote.
Ann Dunn
I like the javelina. Thanks to Hawthorne for this giveaway.
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Maureen
What beautiful fabric, love the colors! Great quilt too.
Julie in WA
I would like to see a roadrunner someday, but I like the coyote as well.
Unknown
I love your quilt. My favorite desert plant is any bush that grows big enough to hide behind in an emergency. We were stuck at desert center for over 3 hours before help arrived. Not fun. Nancy A: rangerer@sbcglobal.net
Amanda
My favorite dessert animal is the road runner… Beep beep. Your quilt is beautiful.
Betsy
Such a unique print. Lovely quilt.
KathleenD
Not only is your quilt stunning, but the quilting is gorgeous and so fitting! THANK YOU for sharing its beauty with us!
I love the Ocotillo in bloom and the quintessential Road Runner!
Hilachas
I love, love that fabric so, sticking to the theme, I'll choose the coyote as my favorite desert animal. Thanks for the opportunity to win the giveaway.
kitblu
Great Jerboas, are interesting looking animals. Such giant ears, which are used to keep them cool.
Megan Smith
Your quilt is beautiful!
I love little clusters of wildflowers. Great pops of colour
Lori
your quilt is gorgeous. I love the design you did, working out into a rectangle. I grew up in the Mohave Dessert in CA when I was younger and I loved the cacti. There is something so majestic about them. And when the birds make their nests in them, they are just so full of life and fun. Thanks for a chance.
Susan
Stunning quilt. My favorite desert animal is the black-footed jack rabbit.
The O's
I've loved watching this quilt come together, I don't know how you do it, but I do because you're pretty amazing! I'd never given much thought to animals in the desert but Camels would top my list.
Sydney
I think I'm going to have to go with cactus on this one!
Courtney
What a beautiful design! My favorite desert animal is the roadrunner — I see them every so often here in AZ! I do love the bright desert flowers too! Orange and purple!
June D
Great quilt – everything you decided on doing flows together to end up with a wonderful design.
Lizards are my favorite desert animal. In my yard it's fun to watch them do push ups (I guess to try and scare me off?) and we even put out more rocks in the front so they have more places to sit in the sun.
Thanks so much for the chance and for sharing your project.
Karen in Breezy Point
I would have to say roadrunner totally based on the cartoon–they seem to be very clever outsmarting that coyote!
minibea12
Lovely quilt! I like succulents like aloe and prickly pear cactus.
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Jessica
I am going to say the Blazing Star. It is a yellow flower that looks beautiful and a little scary at the same time.
Kalana Smith
I love this quilt, the colors fabrics and textures!
Carley Biblin
My favorite desert plant is aloe. It's such a useful healing plant.
Carole Shaffer
such gorgeous design!!! i love the coyote it looks so fierce
ladmquilter
Gorgeous quilt i would have to say the coyote and roadrunner.
Cassie Gribble
Love your quilt! My favorite desert animal is the roadrunner. I have several that live around me here in AZ, they eat some of the snakes that we also have.
Mara
Beautiful, love how it went from a small project to a large.
Katy M
Got to go with Meerkats
Love your quilt btw, so lovely x
Tony Matchett
It's a beautiful quilt!! My fave desert animal would have to be….. The coyotes.
Julie Craven
The organ pipe cactus is a beautiful plant. I have a dozen pictures of one plant taken from all different angles. Its amazing.
This fabric is right up there with those pictures.
Marjorie Nath
I would not have considered using these materials, but with the way you fussy cut the animal prints makes me think of ways that I can use them.
Chiska
Your quilt is gorgeous! I love the barrel cactus. I don't know why, but it fascinates me.
Helen L
What a fantastic quilt!! I love your design! And I love Harris Hawks. They live in the desert and are so striking looking!
Karen
I like the prickly pear cactus. It makes great jelly.
Rose Santuci-Sofranko
Hmmm….I think my favorite desert animal is the Jack Rabbit! Thanks and God bless! ILuvTheEucharist @ aol.com
robin chapa
I love coyotes, so this fabric is right up my alley! Thanks for the chance to win!
Karen
I love this quilt! Most desert fauna scares me, so I will go with desert flora as my favorite. Any blooming cactus makes me happy.
rosemaryschild
Very different-and luv the cactus-great work!
cjmont
i have always loved road runners and blooming cactus.
Karen
Your work is amazing! Like a primitive painting on a cave wall amazing.
Sandra Walker
My favourite desert animal would be a Meerkat. (I had to look that up, as all I could think of was snakes, scorpions and lizards, ew! And I just LOVE Meerkats!)
Vicki H
Having never been to a desert, I would say the roadrunner.
jen
Given that I live in the American desert (or, okay, practically!) I have to saw that SAGE is my very favorite plant. (Or, sometimes tumbleweeds, too! They are so funny rolling along.) Thanks for the giveaway!
SisterlyLove
Lovely quilt!! I think my fav desert animal would be the Burrow Owl! At least, we have them here in the High Desert.
H Vandagriff
Definitely the lizards.
Joan H.
We have often traveled in the south west part of the USA and have seen roadrunners. They are so fascinating to us northerners. Love your quilt with is lovely colors.
Anita H
an agave plant that was dug up from a neighbor's yard in AZ
Pixie Cat
Prairie dogs!
jessica cornelius
I love camels, or maybe the roadrunner.
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Lady Jayne
Beautiful quilt! Am fussy cutting COYOTE into a tote & will share it when done. I live close to Death Valley in Southern California. Only thing missing is the Desert Tortoise!
Brenda
Know I'm late, but my favorite is the magestic saguaro. These "tree" cacti are amazing.
StanleyBeagle
I can see why you'd keep going with a bigger project with those fabrics, just beautiful. I don't know much about desert animals except in cartoons with the Roadrunner and Coyote. And I once had a cactus on my window ledge. His name was Fergus.
Lacasa Cactus
I'm always amazed at quilts and yours is stunning!!! My favourite desert animal would be one from the African desert: the fennec with big ears!
Tawa
My favourite desert plant here in NZ is the red tussock. Only because it featured pretty heavily in my doctoral work. It covers the central plateau in a swathe of coppery red, and when it flowers, all the tussocks flower synchronously in tall, creamy feathery plumes. It grows in swamps and drier spots, so its a pretty amazing plant.
Thanks for the giveaway. Tarnia.hodges at gmail.com
Anne D
Your quilt is amazing. The fabrics are gorgeous. Thanks for the chance to win.
Jean Cherep
The roadrunner is great, it makes me think of old cartoons. But, the coyote rocks!!!!!!!
quiltjane
It does LOL
Diana Reddell
Just gorgeous! Love the quilt! I really like the coyote but it’s the roadrunner that I hold dear for taking me back to Albuquerque in ’74 where I went to visit my sweet older brother.
quiltjane
Hi Diana, Thank you. I have never seen a coyote or a roadrunner in its natural habitat but I think they would be the most fascinating animals. Jane