Monday Design "Wall"*

*Since I don't have a design wall, my floor will have to do!

If you're a quilter in the USA or Canada, you are probably familiar with Row by Row Experience. It's a fun, free shop hop that extends through all 50 US states and many Canadian provinces. Each participating shop is giving away a pattern for a row (36" long) designed by someone who works at that shop. The shops cannot mail or email the patterns out, you have to actually visit them to get their pattern. There are prizes for quilters who bring in a finished quilt that includes at least 8 different shops' rows.

This year's theme for Row by Row Experience is water. I decided to play along, but I only want to make a wall hanging approximately 36 X 36". I didn't want to just go anywhere and get whatever rows were available, so I went to the RXR  Facebook pages to determine which shops to visit, then I collected four patterns to fit my "Afternoon at the Beach" theme.

Here are my first two rows sewn together. The top row is four sunbathing girls, courtesy of Material Girl Fabric Shop. I used three different shades of tan/brown for their skin. The girl on the far left is the lightest; her skin almost blends in with the sand in this photo. For the girl on the far right, the blue embroidery floss will be tied together to look like a string bikini. I'm not going to tie the floss until after I quilt this.

The seashell row is from Crazy Redhead Quilting. For both rows, I used Lite Steam-A-Seam 2. Since this will not see much use, just hanging on the wall, I decided to do fusible applique. My other two rows will be pieced.

I'm linking up to Judy's Design Wall Monday.

Happy stitching!