So my holiday quilting plans were foiled and I turned to Plan B: Camille Roskelley's "Lucky" quilt made with Kate Spain's "Sunnyside" collection.
A dear friend pointed out Sunnyside to me one day while we were browsing the local quilt shop, and it didn't really do much for me. But she LOVED it. Initially I was going to buy her some precuts as a gift, but then it dawned on me that a busy mommy of three might enjoy the fabric more if it didn't require time she really doesn't have at this stage in life. So I won't be keeping this, though I'm really pleasantly surprised and pleased at how well I like it. Now that the fabric is in a quilt, I think it's really fun and cheerful.
My quilt came out a little smaller than the original pattern as I made the huge mistake of washing my precuts. Oops! I had been told that you don't have to wash precuts, but from day one of my sewing journey the rule was wash that fabric! So I did… Moda fabric is lovely and it didn't shrink much at all, but it did lose it's perfect square shape. In fact, some of them became quite wonky. I had to trim down my pieces a bit to make them nice, even squares again. Lesson learned!
Keely volunteered to hand quilt it, and I just might let her. After all, I'm in the middle of hand quilting two other quilts right now and I'm impatient to send this beauty off to it's new owner!
