I have had this adorable fabric in the shop for a while now and it has called to me on numerous occasions. It features the sweetest little girl hang gliding, floating with balloons, and parachuting. The use of primary colors makes it so cheerful and bright – I just love it. It is called Hei Sky Cloudine from the Sisu line by Art Gallery Fabric.
AGF, as always, has described the line beautifully: “Sisu!” is an untranslatable Finnish word; it is the mindset that allows us to keep going just when we think we are about to give up. In Sisu, children playing with primary shapes and colours inspire our natural tendency to persevere into our fullest potential.
Last week I was browsing quilt blogs and came across a post on Material Girl Quilts and saw a very simple quilt made of stripes of fabric in varying sizes. It really appealed to me because it would show off this sweet fabric perfectly. I made two small modifications to the tutorial. I added a very narrow stripe of color just above and below the focal fabric. Then I cut my strips a tiny bit wider just to make use of the fabric as much as possible.
Obviously, this is a very simple quilt to make and took little time to put together. I used primary colors which make for a bold, happy quilt. Because the assembly took no time at all, I took the quilting slow. A quilt this size is perfect for practicing free motion quilting. Also, quilting in a row like this lent itself to some fun motifs. I enjoyed making the rows of rising suns on the dark yellow stripes. On the blue dots, I quilting large stars but I cannot quite make them show up in the picture. It seemed like I was making a night sky stripe with stars on the dark blue dotted fabric.
Clouds were the obvious choice for the focus fabric. This adventurous girl is floating around amidst all sorts of clouds. Small curved lines with lots of echoing was a fun motif to quilt. For the red polka dot stripe, I just did a wavy line, almost like a ribbon candy motif. By the way, the stars and sun motifs are from Lori Kennedy Quilts – you can find just about any motif on her site. It is a wealth of information!
The backing fabric is a red and white large check with a hint of blue outlining the white squares. Perfect colors, right?
Making this quilt was so satisfying. Easily pieced, fun fabrics, and fun quilting motifs – Hurray!All of these fabrics are available in the shop so feel free to browse these links:
- Sisu Focus Fabric
- Red Plaid Backing Fabric
- Green Triangles Fabric
- Yellow Textured Solid
- Red Polka Dot
- Blue Polka Dot
I am surely going to make more of these when I want to use fabrics with large scale prints. This quilt will probably hang as a sample for a while and then be gifted or maybe donated to Project Linus. We are enjoying oddly cool weather today and tomorrow so I am enjoying it. Sewing is going to have to wait until it heats back up on Monday!! Enjoy the weekend all!
Linking to my favorites – check them out at the top of the page, under link ups. This week since this has some FMQ going on, I am also linking up with Muv for Free Motion Mavericks.
Adorable fabric! The quilt is perfect for showcasing it. I would hate to have to cut that sweet little print. Live your FMQ. Great job!
Thank you Linda. I was doing a lot more quilting and haven’t been over these past months. Surprising how rusty it felt. I am cutting out another one of these so I can practice more. 🙂
This is darling fabric and such a great way to showcase it! Love this. Hope I remember this trick when i need to make a baby quilt!
For sure. It was a fun quick make and is great for a fun print like this. Do you use pinterest? I love it for filing away ideas that I want to try later on.
So very sweet! Simple, but perfect!
That focus fabric is adorable! What a fun, fast and cute quilt!
Thanks Wendy. It was a great opportunity to practice some quilting. I am so very rusty. At first I had planned to just do straight line with the walking foot but I am happy I didn’t. I need to practice a lot more!
I can see why the Sisu print called you! How sweet and adventurous she is. You showcased her perfectly in this quilt! Congrats on a lovely finish, Bernie 🙂
I think she is the cutest. Though, I wish the designer had put both boys and girls on the print. Thanks a bunch Louise.
What a fun print. Definitely needed to showcase it.
Thanks! It lends itself to this sort of thing. Well, also would be fun to fussy cut. Hope all is well Anja.
Your quilting really makes this one special, Bernie. I love the little suns and the clouds!
Thank you – it was a great way to practice. I have been trying to remember to work on my FMQ skills as I have let myself get too rusty. I just cut another strip quilt like this one so I could work on it a bit more.
Great quilt! Great design! It’s inspiration for me. I have a focus fabric I’ve been thinking of using…
Thank you Nancy! It was a fun way to use the fabric and it will be a nice baby quilt to gift or donate. 🙂
This fabric is absolutely adorable. The brown-haired girl in the fabric reminds me of the distraught 11-year old whose dad was arrested by ICE in Mississippi. She pleads for the government to release her dad because he did nothing wrong and he is not a criminal. My heart is breaking.
Thank you Preeti. I agree – the situation is definitely heartbreaking right now and hopefully it can be vastly improved.
This is so perfectly lovely and fun! That print is just fantastic, and your sun quilting put an instant smile on my face. Such a fun finish!
Thank you Emily. I have used that sun motif before – It is so sweet and fairly easy to quilt. I just cut out another strip quilt as I want to continue to practice my FMQ. I am in the mood so may as well take advantage of that!! Hope all is well with you. Has your son started school for fall?
Hello Bernie,
Quick projects are such fun, and there’s nothing like a baby quilt for a quick finish.
Those are such gorgeous fabrics!
Thank you for linking up with Free Motion Mavericks!
Love, Muv