Hi! Glad you stopped by to see my post for the Four Seasons Blog Hop (brought to you by Island Batik!) This week we are celebrating summer.
Today's fabric line is
Paisley Dot. What a gorgeous line!
The precuts come in two collections - brights and earthtones. I got the whole set to play with in a fat quarter bundle - and what fun it was! You will definitely want to keep your eye out for these - they will be arriving at your local shop soon.
Aren't these colors amazing? If you like this, you need to keep reading and see the front of my quilt - this is the back side, which I pieced from some of the leftovers! Now I will tell you the rest of the story...
When I found out the theme of the blog hop, I started thinking about summer, and one of my favorite things about summer is staying up late and watching the stars, so of course I decided to make a star quilt.
Variable stars make up quickly using flying geese blocks, so that's what I went for. I had a blast mixing and matching all the colors to make stars that reminded me of all the great things about summer. Sunny blue and yellow.
Green grass and rainbow sherbet!
Watermelon, so juicy and sweet. I could just go on and on, so many fun colors that made me think of summer - sand and water, fresh fruits and veggies, ice cream treats, swimming pools....I just can't wait for summer to get here now! Making the blocks was fast and easy. For each block I chose three fabrics - a background, center and star points.
For the star points I made flying geese units. I used a 7 3/4 inch square from the background color and four 4 1/4 inch squares from the star point fabric.
I used the Ultimate Flying Geese Tool by Creative Grids and it helped my flying geese to be so nice and perfect at 3 1/2 by 6 1/2 after trimming up.
Then I cut a 7 inch square from the background fabric and subcut that into four 3 1/2 inch squares
And added one center square cut at 6 1/2.
Sew it all together and you get one star.
I repeated these steps, mixing and matching different fabrics until I had 16 squares.
All of this summer beauty goes perfectly surrounded with a blue deep enough to be the summer evening just as the stars come peeking out, before it gets fully dark. I had just enough of the deep blue to cut nine 12 1/2 inch setting squares, and the triangles for the outside!
(Wasn't it nice of the sun to come out just for this picture?)
I cut 2 inch strips from 18 fat quarters for the scrappy binding.
I loved making this cheerful quilt, and used every single color I received in my bundle - scrappy is definitely my love language for quilts! I used a darkish blue Aurifil Thread for the quilting. I feel like I use this swirly quilting a lot, but it really went so well with the fabric I decided to just go with it, even though it's not super exciting. I love the way the thread blends in with the darks and the lights.
Now it's time for a giveaway! I have three Stash Builder Rolls to share with someone - due to the postage costs this prize is restricted to US residents and all three rolls go to one lucky winner. I would love to give something away to those of you who don't live in the US, so if my winner is an International entry I will send you three of my PDF patterns - so everyone can enter. Leave me a comment telling me what rotary ruler you used last - I'm curious as to what fun rulers everyone else likes!
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If you haven't already entered, Island Batik is also hosting a giveaway for some awesome precuts - you can enter that here:
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Here is the schedule for this week - make sure you visit all the blogs to see the beautiful fabrics and enter to win the giveaways. Fall starts next week, so stay tuned!
SUMMER
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