My Day on Here Comes The Sun Blog Hop

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June, brings us lots of Sunshine with Carol’s “Here Comes the Sun” hop! I really want to thank Carol for hosting this fun hop with such a happy theme.

It’s a good timing because I’ve had a month of rain and the rivers are at peak way too early 😳. It’s been nice to play with bright fabrics to cheer myself up with this project while feeling sympathy for people who are already experiencing flooding and a horrific heat dome.

I had a couple of ideas for projects but nothing really spoke to me. Then I had a visit from a good friend who needed a birthday gift for his wife since it’s a significant birthday. We looked at my supply of flimsies, he made a choice and decided I needed to enlarge the quilt top.

The woman who is being gifted the quilt is one of our local artists. She is an incredible, talented woman who loves bright colours. They have been married for 25 years and raised two very nice children to adulthood.

Piano key borders seemed to be the perfect way to add the needed width to make the quilt fit the queen size bed.

Since we live in an area where we often have lengthy power outages, he wanted me to add wool to the quilt as well as my standard batting.

Luckily I had a batt on hand for another project. 😉

I had a great time at the studio getting the additional borders on the quilt top and making a backing.

We had gone through my backings but not found anything he liked. Then he spotted a piece of batik I had. It really was the perfect fabric with words on it (Create, Imagine, Love, Inspire, etc.). Isn’t that just right for an artist who is very in touch with her heritage and the land. She and her husband have spent years investigating and getting in touch with his indigenous heritage and spirituality. The fabric was only was 7’ long so I knew I was going to have to do some work to make it work for a queen size quilt. I made more piano key strips and added some other fabrics to the side to bring it up to size.

I really enjoyed quilting this one. I did a lot of stitching in the ditch to stabilize the wool. Then I played with rulers, wishbones, and curly loopy meandering. I really wanted the central star to stand out since the recipient is a real star to her husband, her family, her friends and our community. I wanted the cream to be highlighted but have loose quilting. I used Essential threads from Connecting Threads (no affiliate) in both bobbin and top thread. My long arm really likes that thread and I do clean my bobbin area every time I change the bobbin and always start each quilt with a new needle and oil my machine every time I go to the studio.

You can see the fun backing I made with the piano key strips as I’m sitting and sewing my binding by hand.

Once it was finished being quilted and squared up I added my binding to the front by machine and hand stitched the binding to the back. I embroidered my label information on the piano key strips on the back instead of adding a label.

Finished the binding half an hour before it needed to be picked up.

To me this quilt is a perfect sunny project for a woman with a sunny personality. It is also one of my listed UFO’s so I can count it as a double win! A Blog Hop project and a UFO finished for my PHD. 😉

Can you believe I didn’t get a photo of the finished quilt or the backing? I did however, receive a photo thanking me for the quilt and showing me it’s new home. 😊

It’s especially poignant since this is in the master bedroom in the house we sold!

Here are the other blogs to visit on this last day of the hop:

June 24

Just Let Me Quilt

Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting

Quilted Delights

Lynn’s Blog

Kathy’s Kwilts and More

I’d like to thank Carol for hosting the Hop, the other participants for the fun and inspiring projects they created, and you for stopping by to visit with me for a while. I do enjoy reading your comments and reply to them all. Thank you 😄 Carol

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Published by Carol Andrews

I have been fondling fabric and creating things with fabric and fiber for as long as I can remember. My children had homemade clothes, blankets, canning and quilts most of their lives. Now I create goodies to share! Hope you enjoy viewing them as much as I enjoy making them! When I am not creating with fiber or fabric I keep busy with Dear Heart, kids, grandkids, great grandkids.

33 thoughts on “My Day on Here Comes The Sun Blog Hop”

  4. I don’t have any UFOs in my stash that are as beautiful as this one. I can see why your friend chose this one as it totally suits his wife’s artistic life. The extra borders, backing, and quilting made this an even more incredibly gorgeous quilt! Thanks for sharing, Carol!

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  9. That’s a gorgeous quilt. I’m sure it’ll be used for years to come. The wool batting makes for a quilt whose quilting really pops. Excellent!

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  13. You did a fabulous job on this quilt. I love the quilting and I am sure its recipient loves it. It really is a cheery quilt and so glad you had a backing you could make work. Love that you finished a UFO and had a project for the Sun Blog Hop!

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    1. Thank you Kathleen. I was pleased to have a nice sized piece of that perfect fabric for the backing. I just had to add a few strips of another fabric and some piano keys to get it up to size. It was a fun finish all around. 😉

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