Welcome to the last day of the Here Comes the Sun Blog Hop hosted by Carol of Just Let Me Quilt.
I've sure enjoyed seeing everyone's creations. If you missed any, you can find the whole blog hop list at the bottom of the post.
The challenge for this blog hop was Summer and Sunshine.
We were challenged to sew something that has a summer theme like: sunglasses, beach items, sunny skies, and/or yellow colors. It could be a quilt, a bag, a toy, or whatever we wanted it to be.
I went with yellow and lots of it!
I even threw in some orange and reds for hot summer sun colors.
I had snatched up these Island Batik color strip packs from Missouri Star a bit ago when they went on sale and this was the perfect hop to use them.
Half of each pack makes a whole lot of four patches! I didn't even use them all for this quilt. When I first started, I had no clue where this project was going. I was just sewing four patches.
As I was sewing the four patches I felt like I needed something pointy for sun rays, so I added the red triangle in a square blocks along with some orange half square triangles and ended up creating the quilt I have now.
The other red, white, and orange prints are left overs from my other Island Batik Ambassador projects and from my personal Island Batik Stash. It was fun to play with these colors of the sun.
I quilted it with Hobbs Heirloom Premium 80/20 Bleached Cotton/Poly Blend. I like using the white batting when I have lots of white in the quilt top.
The back is older fabric from my stash. I really like piecing my backs. Helps me clear out the stash!
I am calling this one Summer Sun. It measures approximately 64 inch square.
Check out all the blogs below to see all the fun creations:
