So, of couse I jumped in with anticipation! We've had a fairly gloomy spring here on the Oregon coast, so it was fun to play with some bright yellow fabrics.
I had the perfect collection I wanted to work with - most of a Sunny Side Up fat quarter collection from Island Batik, plus the scraps I had left from making a pattern sample for the Spring/Summer 2019 catalog using the same collection. My pattern is called May Roses, and I had some blocks left from making a smaller sample for my local quilt shop as well, so I added those to the mix to see what I could come up with.
I started out by working with my leftover blocks and made a little wallhanging sized quilt:
And then I only had 3 more blocks left, so I thought a little table runner might be a fun idea.
Oh yes, that definitely adds a touch of sunshine to my dining room! Next I decided to tackle some of those fat quarters. Hmm....how about a little baby size quilt using my CityScape pattern?
First I needed to find 7 fat quarters with no chunks cut out of them. Then the fun of piecing could start!
I decided to use some solid gray for the sashing - it gives a nice calming effect.
I quited it in yellow thread with an overall meander. Don't you love those blue strawberries on a yellow background?
Love it! But I still have a lot of fabric left, so maybe one more project? Well, I'm on a roll with remaking some patterns so how about Daisy Garland? I found a few more whole fat quarters and got to work again...
Pretty! By now I was getting close to deadline time, and decided to quilt this one in an easy swirl in a light blue thread.
And this morning I got some pictures of it in the sunshine - so nice.
Four projects finished with! That's a lot of sunshine! But....
I still have a big stack of scraps! I've decided to use these to make a quilt from Bonnie Hunter's String Fling book. Blue Skies is going to be a fun summer project, so I'll be Stitching Sunshine for the next few months it looks like.
Thanks, Carla for hosting this hop! Hope everyone else has had as much fun stitching sunshine as I have! Make sure to visit the other blogs on today's schedule:
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