"Lucky" Holiday Weekend

With a less busy work schedule due to the 4th of July, I turned on Netflix and settled in for a nice, long evening of marathon quilting…  Only to discover that you can't marathon quilt when you quilt by hand.  Eventually you loose all feeling in your fingers tips.  And once you've reached this point, you've passed the point of no return.   Healing those monster callouses takes time… :(

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!