Blue skies looking at me. Nothing but blue skies do I see.
If you were around for yesterday's post about my love affair with Instant Pot, you may recall I also mentioned a love affair with Laundry Basket's Blue Sky for Andover Fabrics. Actually, David fell in love with these beautiful prints first and together we decided to purchase a yard cut of all the prints (he wheeled and dealed with a local quilt shop, Country Roads Quilts, one of our favorite shops). Our goal was to use this fabric line to create a few new quilt patterns.
After a few weeks of back and forth we settled on a new smaller quilt measuring 48" (pictured above on the right), a larger quilt measuring 64" (not pieced together yet) and of course we had to make a version of our pattern Star Bloosom (pictured on the left).
First let's take a closer look at the newest quilt. It was super quick and easy to piece together. Best of all I think it will look wonderful with a good ol custom quilting job. I'm just itching to get started.
I just love all those prints!
We still need to give this one a name. We all know how much I love a quilt along. I am toying with the idea of offering this as a free online quilt along if enough people are interested. In my head we will piece the top together in sections, then after it's together, I will walk you through the quilting process, so you can literally quilt right along with me if you want. We will go slow and tackle the quilt small sections at a time. Hopefully, it will be a fun way to give free motion a try if you like and at the end you will have a finished quilt. Guess I will just kind of wait and see what the feed back is on this one.
Next up is Star Blossom, I just had to. Star Blossom is my and Dave the Quilt Engineer's first pattern release, available in my Craftsy store for purchase and download. The owner of Country Roads Quilt Shop expressed an interested in selling our pattern in print version and asked if I would have a sample of the quilt. Since we purchased the fabric from her store and she has the entire collect (minus one bolt, she sold out of it as soon as she got it in), I thought this would make a wonderful sample for her, when we finally have print copies (fingers crossed within the next two weeks).
Have I mentioned we are in love with these fabrics? There is something so calming and classic in these prints. They work wonderfully together in a quilt and would also mixing nicely with other lines.
I can't wait to get these quilted up and start on the pattern for the bigger quilt. I'd love to share it with you now, but I think the fabrics need to do the talking.
Back to the Instant Pot...I know I'm a broken record...not only did it allow me to piece these two quilts but...
These two little puppies found me as well...aren't they just Dog Gone Cute!
So with that, I will leave you with these...
"Never saw the sun shining so bright,
Never saw things goin' so right,
Noticing the days hurrying by,
When you're in love my, my how they fly.
Blue days, all of them gone.
Nothing but blue skies from now on."
Thank you Willie Nelson, Edyta Sitar from Laundry Basket Quilts, Andover Fabric, Peggy at Country Roads Quilts and Dave the Quilt Engineer.
