Summer Quilts

These are the summer quilts, or: What happened when I just gave in to the fabric. 

1. Sunburst: 

This quilt started from reading beautiful sewing books and finally accepting that I had absolutely no interest in following a pattern. I had swatches of fabric that I loved. I had memories of my mom blocking out queen size quilts and sewing perfect crisp patterns. Part of me wanted to do that, but most of me didn't. I wanted to make hundreds of baby-size quilts that were impossible to describe or make patterns for. So I just started cutting and sewing. 

I cut pieces without measuring and started piecing this soft puzzle together. 

Cotton and linen and flannel. 

Around and around and around. 

It was July 

I was in love with yellow 

It was insanely fun to sew

2. Sun & Grass

I began making this pinwheel sun and couldn't decide what to do with it. 

And then it seemed like there should be a landscape around it.

Which made sense because what could be better than

fields of green calico and silk.

3. Little Boxes

This was the closest I got to sewing a formal quilt. The little japanese house & bird fabric is ridiculously adorable. Seriously, don't your ovaries explode a little bit just looking at it? 

This was a very simple pieced quilt with larger boxes in the right bottom that tumble into smaller boxes. 

When it was finished, I spent car rides and hours on couches hand stitching around the houses. 

I fell in love with orange thread and the little orange birds flying behind the houses.