Colorful Life and Lickety Split are my homage to the wonderful teachers in Blogland. These are also Quilts # 9 and #10 from the Sugarland Fall Festival.
When I look back on my quilting journey, I am amazed. I learned to thread my machine on Labor Day in 2012. How did I go from 0 to 60 quilts in three years? There is one big reason - the inspiration and guidance in Blogland. There is also one small reason - I am crazy!!!
Colorful Life is a result of my admiration for Amanda Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts. It is inspired by her Birch quilt pattern.
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| Colorful Life |
I used very bright solids to showcase the scrappy bits. I say "inspired" because I did not quite follow the directions; the squares were not all the same size. Oh well, I hope the colors will distract from pattern imperfections.
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| Keeping it Simple |
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| Celebrating every Sliver |
I chose a solid black border, because nothing else would work with that brightness overload!!!
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| Thank you Amanda Jean!!! |
I quilted around each square (Stitch Across the Ditch) using a decorative stitch. I added a couple of gentle curves in between.
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| Happy Turtles |
The super bright, happy turtles on the backing fabric makes this my most favorite quilt out of the 14 total. May be that is the reason I have not been able to part with it. The colorful dancing dots on black fabric makes the perfect binding.
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| Colorful Finish!!! |
The finished quilt is about 40" by 50". Here are a few more pictures showing details.
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| No Scrap Left Behind |
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| Green, Orange, Blue & Purple - YAY!!! |
It is also fun to see/identify those fabrics from quilts past.
The inspiration for Lickety Split came from Unruly by Kelly Young of My Quilt Infatuation. I highly recommend this pattern.
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| Lickety Split |
It looks complicated but is super easy. Makes you want to make three quilts even when you need just one. It came together so quickly that Lickety Split was the perfect name for it.
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| Decorative Stitch Quilting |
The quilting is straight line using a decorative stitch. Once again, I chose a solid black border to contain/contrast all the brightness.
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| In direct sun!!! |
I used the leftover fabrics from the top to add interest to the back. Kelly does it all the time. If I was going to use her pattern, why not go all out?
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| Quilted, Bound & Labelled! |
Since it is a baby quilt, I would have picked out a bright, colorful fabric for the back. But in this case, to highlight the colorful fabric, I went with a solid charcoal fabric.
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| Pieced Backing |
I used black jelly roll strips also for the binding to super speed up the effort. Lickety Split finished at 40" square. Lickety Split was gifted to Roma for her newborn baby boy.
I will be linking with my favorite link parties, as usual. And as usual, please let me know if this post has brightened your day.
Let me tell you what brightened mine - Just Jane sent me an email saying that she was inspired by my Candyland quilt (Blush!!!). And she also sent a picture. I also love that her quilt is not an exact same design, but inspired by it!!!
Thank you, Just Jane - you brightened my day.
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| Candyland by Just Jane!!! |
Just when I am gushing about BEING inspired by Amanda Jean and Kelly in Blogland, my work is inspiring someone else. My life is complete!!!
