This sunbonnet Sue quilt is finally done! It was part of the rainbow color of the month from 2016 and then I used Accuquilt’s die and embroidery files to make the blocks and for the border I used the 3×6 flying geese die that comes with the GO big! I just outlined the girls and …
This month’s theme with Island Batik is Looking back at Vintage quilts. Batiks are not vintage but more modern, so it was fun to think about ways to use them for something vintage. I looked in pinterest and quickly found what I would do- a sunbonnet sue quilt! what’s more vintage than that?? I had …
As you may have seen before, I made these sunbonnet sue blocks last year for the rainbow QAL, it was fun! I got the die for sunbonnet Sue from Accuquilt and also the embroidery set for it. (Marjorie’s) I played around in EQ with different ideas, plain borders a scrappy sashing with solid border? or …
I was looking at my neglected Sunbonnet Sue blocks from the RSC16 and I had to do some digging to find the colors and alternate colors, but then I saw why I had stopped, some of the secondary colors didn’t make sense to me and some were the same, so I focused on the primary …
So I caught up on the new owl RSC16 blocks, here’s the purple version and brown ( you’ve seen a leopard owl before, right?) and then blue! I have the eyes looking all different directions. Also I fused down all the branches on the last 8 blocks, even though I didn’t mean for them to …
I can’t stop finding things to make in orange. As promised/challenged by turid here’s an orange purse pincushion! I didn’t have any orange felt so I used yellow instead. Then yesterday I was asked a question on amazon- since I reviewed it- about the owl accuquilt die, then I just GOT in the mood to …
I can’t believe that June is almost over and tomorrow is July 1st, time flies! Here’s a review of what I made in June a Jelly roll quilt top a fun ornament a Peasant dress for Sonja two owl hipster purses Sunbonnet Sue pillow Sunbonnet Sue baby quilt eyeglass cases already have a few things …
This week’s tutorial is more of a block inspiration post. As you can tell, I’ve had a “thing” for sunbonnet sue lately, so here’s some layouts I’ve made. First, if you search for Sunbonnet under the block search you’ll see these the ones with a stippled/dashed line around them are actually MOTIFS (applique) so the …
This weekend I was at a baby shower for a lady at church (our pastor’s daughter-in-law) Since I did my post on the new sunbonnet sue die and embroidery, I just HAD to try it again and designed this in EQ. Love the embroidery on the block! Here’s the quilt all done and quilted and …
This month’s Accuquilt Challenge is the Sunbonnet Sue die (and I used the matching CD as well) and the CD I was so excited to get started and do have another “plan” but we’ll see if it happens any time soon, here I just decided to do a test block and used leftover blue …