june quilt

Welcome to day 6 of the No Scrap Left Behind blog tour! Today my sweet friend, Katherine, who has been a long time blog friend, is sharing her take on the June quilt pattern. Katherine was gracious enough to pattern test for me and I love her final quilt! It's so bright and happy. She used a precious fabric from her stash for the background blocks as a starting point and pulled fabrics from her stash for the rest of the quilt. (See, these quilts aren't limited to scraps ONLY!) :) The results are AMAZING! She did a wonderful job on the quilting, as well. I hope you go check it out here. Thanks for sharing your beautiful quilt, Katherine!

When making scrappy quilts, it's really easy to default to a light background, like white or cream or white with red polka dots. I know that I do! This background was a bold choice, but I love it! I picked it out in the month of June, when my backyard was a similar brilliant green color. I have no doubt that it influenced my decision.

I made this quilt large... it's 85" square and I intended for it to be used for picnics. It's large enough to make a quilt fort on rainy day, too!

These string blocks are a great project to work on when you don't feel like thinking too much. In fact, I had started piecing the strings together before I had a fully formed plan for them. I was happy to have a stack of them ready to go when I made my final decisions on the layout.

When it came to choose a binding for this quilt, I had quite a time deciding what to use. I felt like I had painted myself into a corner! I usually default to some sort of red, but that didn't work so well with the green background. I auditioned several fabrics before I settled on this sunny yellow binding. I think it finishes it off nicely.

I sent it to Steffani for quilting and she did a great job on it!

 

I've been thinking about hosting a quilt along based on this quilt in the month of June. (That's next month already!) If you'd be interested in joining me, please let me know.

Happy Monday to you!