Happy Sunday

Today I wanted to share with you a quilt a finished a few weeks ago for a dear friend, but I wanted to hold on sharing it here until she received it. Now that the quilt has safely arrived to its destination, let me share some details with you about it.

This quilt was a bit of a departure of the scrappy projects I love so much and I’ve been focused working on lately. I wanted this quilt to feel fresh and calming; and when I found a few yards of this sweet floral fabric in my stash I knew I had to somehow use it to make this quilt. After a bit of brainstorming I decided to make a flower block using the classic snowball block. For the the center of each block I wanted a some contract but not so much that it draw all of your attention to it, after auditioning a few fabrics I settled on using essex linen in olive color. And I’m so happy I did. I think the essex linen is the perfect compliment to the floral fabric.

To quilt this quilt I used the serpentine stitch on my Janome machine and I love it. I used a light pink thread (which I’ve never done before) and I’m so pleased with the results. I’m so motivated to using color threads on my quilts now. The backing I used a very soft flannel that happens to coordinate so beautifully with the yellow on the florals. So pleased with how this quilt turned out and all the lessons I learned making it.