Hi Friends!

I made a quilt!! If you’re looking for a fun, fast, and colorful quilt to make…check this one out!! Ruby Star Society did a fun summer sew along, and offered a free pattern for the Perfect Picnic Quilt. I wasn’t going to join in, but then I saw a couple of friends making one and of course had to join them. I’m now sitting on the couch writing this post under this very quilt. It’s cozy!!

Yes…quilts in doors is a must when the air conditioning is on. Haha!!

Ruby Star Society made several mock-ups with fabrics from their different designers. I loved the fabrics by Melody Miller. I used a fun off white fabric with an alternating little gold dash, by Gingiber from Moda, for the white background and binding. Which I love!!! The gold marries to well with the golds in Melody’s florals and butterflies. I love the butterflies so much, I chose that for my backing fabric. I got all of my fabrics from my favorite online shop, Sisters and Quilters.

I used the lovely dark navy floral for the deep contrasting fabric, and then choose two fabrics in each color for the scrappy mid color. This is the perfect quilt to use up some of your stash…especially if you want to show off some of your favorite fabrics.

I used my favorite Natural White Omni thread from Superior Threads, and 6 oz. bamboo batting from Winline Textiles out of Ogden Utah. I wish you could feel the extra puffiness, I’m loving it!! If you’d like to add either of my 4 oz or 6 oz bamboo to a quilt, let me know they are divine! The 6 oz is thicker than the 4 oz.

It’s really funny when I’m making a quilt of my own, sometimes I take awhile to decide how I’m going to quilt it. Not this one. I was sewing it together, and started dreaming of quilting Kapari on it. I love how the curves of the design play so well with the lovely floral prints. Kapari is one of my pantos, and it’s stitches out beautifully. It’s available in my shop. A panto is another name for a quilting design that has several repeats of a single motif. Longarm quilters use pantos to quilt quilts, whether it comes in a paper or digital format, it is still called a panto. I have a huge variety of pantos, check them out in my shop or at Urban Elementz.

I’m loving the buffalo plaid look to this quilt. Very different having the mid color be so scrappy and colorful.

A couple of more looks at the beautiful texture!

I love a fast sewing project…which ones have you made lately? I’m typically a very slow sewer, that it takes me awhile to make a quilt. Part of that is finding the time to actually sew.

I would love to quilt for you!! If you’re hoping to get some of your quilts finished, send me a message or email me at quiltingit@gmail.com

For more info on my Longarm Quilting Services, check it out.

I love adding my little quilt labels to my projects. They were made by Custom Labels 4 U. Reach out to them, they are great to work with.

Here are a couple of progress pics. The one above is while it’s still on the longarm, and below is right before I started the hand binding…my favorite part.