26 October 2012

Finish It Up Friday meets Blogger's Quilt Festival


Amy's Creative Side

You are my sunshine . . .


My only sunshine . . .


You make me happy . . .


When skies are gray . . .


(nice of the weather to cooperate with gray skies!)

I love this quilt. It's big. It's bright. It's warm and cozy.

There's not much of a story here. I've always loved yellow and orange. I love citrus. I love daisies. I love sunflowers, yellow tulips, Lemonheads, orange slices, lemon meringue pie, and canaries (Tweetie bird especially!). That's it. I started collecting the fabric in the throes of a Seattle winter, so I suppose I was counteracting the gray skies.

See, I could break into song again: 

I've got sunshine, on a cloudy day . . . 

The official stats:
  • Quilt Measurements: 82.5" X 102.5"
  • Special Techniques used: string blocks (is that special?); lots of patience; backed in Minky 
  • Quilted by…MOI! I FMQed big flowers in each block, then straight-lined down the white strips
  • Best category: You pick: Favorite Two-color quilt, Favorite bed quilt or Viewer's Choice
Thanks for stopping by. Have fun at the festival - I know I will be!

I'm also crossing this one off the 4Q FAL list and the 100 Day Hustle. And I'm linking up with crazymomquilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict. Phew. I'm spent.

If you need me, I'll be joining in the Friday Night Sew-In with my Weekender bags and that zig zag quilt. I'm taking it nice and slow with my Weekender bags. As in, I'm waiting on zippers, I need some more interfacing (I thought I bought enough?), and I keep distracting myself with an idea for another one. Yeah. It's bad over here.

Handmade by Heidi

30 comments:

  1. Adorable quilting! Beautiful!

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  2. What a lovely bright quilt - perfectly mood-lifting cos there 'ain't no sunshine' here in London!

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  3. Very beautiful and cheerful.

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  4. Wow, it is huge! Love the color choice, it is so cheerful. I keep wanting to try a bed size quilt, but slightly worried on how to quilt the thing! You did a beautiful job.

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  5. So fantastic!
    A happy quilt!!!

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  6. If I was going to make a string quilt, it would look like this!

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  7. Yay for strings!! I love this quilt. So much happiness and sunshine going on. Great job!

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  8. Orange and lemon delicious! This quilt almost looks good enough to eat! Definitely one for a sunny day!

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  9. You could never feel sad with this gorgeous quilt on your bed. Beautiful!

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  10. Your quilt is so pretty and it just radiates happiness! I love it.

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  11. I LOVE this quilt. I think yellow and orange are seriously underappreciated. :)

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  12. Lovely-The colors are among my favorites too and you have shown them off in such a fabulous way: On Point. The quilting Pops too.

    Wonderful Finish, Congratulations, Jennie.

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  13. Love it! So bright and sunny, and put together beautifully! Great job!

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  14. Such a fun, bright, happy quilt!

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  15. that second song is going to be stuck in my head all night now :) congrats on a fabulous finish!

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  16. mmmm I love it!! Lemon Meringue pie and oranges - love love love it!!!

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  17. Awesome job! I love the string-quilt style. The quilting is great. And, you're right, it does look so cheery & sunny! Really nice work.

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  18. omg, its SOOOO beautiful! LOVE your colors!!!

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  19. This is beautiful,bright and so cheery!! LOVE IT!! :)

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  20. That is bright and fun! Great job.

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  21. Wow!!! I love love your quilt!! It does look like sunshine!!!

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  22. Oh, I love your Sunshine Quilt! It is so bright and sunny indeed!

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  23. This is just absolutely DELICIOUS!!!!! I love yellows and oranges too - you nailed it with this one! :)

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  24. this quilt is so full of sunshine and cheer - thanks for sharing!

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  25. Love your bright cheery quilt. It's a big one!

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  26. Lovely, and so happy in these colours.

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  27. What a gorgeous quilt!! we have already gotten a ton of snow here and just looking at the warm colours in your quilt makes me forget about all the snow!!

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  28. It is a beautiful quilt! I like how bright it is with out being overwhelming.

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  29. I am a sucker for strings quilts. I just love them, but this one is so great! I love the two color combo!

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