Sunny Sunflowers
I have some sunny sunflowers to share with you today. Earlier this week, Vicki of Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting released her Welcome the Sunflowers pattern. You can see her post about the release here. Vicki asked me to test the pattern for her, and I thoroughly enjoyed making these sunny sunflowers! Here’s my version, ready for me to hand stitch the binding.
Since my background fabric was a solid cream color, I decided to have a little fun and added a plaid quilting design using yellow and green thread. Here’s a closer view.
Once the quilting was complete, I added the sunflowers. I fused them on with SoftFuse, starting with the stems and leaves. I used a straight stitch on the stems and leaves, then used a zig zag stitch on the flowers.
Once I had the binding stitched down, I hung it up in my kitchen, and was surprised at how well it matched.
I thought you might get a chuckle out of this picture, with my Christmas quilt still hanging in my living room. I’ll get it changed out one of these days!
The Welcome the Sunflowers pattern is available for 25% off in Vicki’s Etsy Shop until May 10th, so hope over to Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting to grab a copy. You’ll enjoy making this one!
Happy Friday, all!
Wendy
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23 Comments
Sandra Healy
Beautiful quilt, Wendy! I love the quilting, great idea!
Cindy Pieters
Lovely quilt, and I like the colours! I also like your choice of quilting.
Helen
What a happy wall now! Sunflowers are always happy. Perfect choice for the plaid stitching.
Quilting is in my Blood
Lovely sunflowers! You’ve been busy in recent months doing some fantastic pattern testing.
The Joyful Quilter
Great job on the quilt test, Wendy! It fits that wall perfectly, too.
Tracie
I like the two wall quilts together! It looks so colorful when the color is slow to come outside.
Nancy @ Grace and Peace Quilting
Sweet!!! And your other quilt doesn’t read Christmas–both are fun together!!!
marissthequilter
What a bright and beautiful sunflower quilt. It looks very happy in the spot in which you have hung it. And your Christmas quilt seems to like the company! If you didn’t tell anyone it was a Christmas quilt, they might not guess!
Vicki in MN
It looks great Wendy! Thank you once again for testing. I love the different color threads you used in the quilting, fun idea! You had the perfect fabric for the sunflower center and binding too.
karenfae
how funny still having the Xmas wall hanging up – it isn’t screaming Xmas so that is ok – it is not a santa after all 🙂 the sunflower looks great
Mari
Ooh, I love the plaid! And yellow flowers, well, you can never go wrong with sunny yellow blooms. Have a good weekend!
Barbara J Stanbro
That is very cute!!
Brenda @ Songbird Designs
Very cheerful! And, I love your holder!
Diann@LittlePenguinQuilts
I love those little plaids you used – they’re perfect for this design! Your version of Vicki’s pattern turned out great! Fun seeing where you have it hanging, too. Even if the other quilt is meant to be Christmas-y, it is still beautiful hanging there!
Laura
Love the way that you quilted this happy little wall hanging, Wendy! 🙂
Vicki Welsh
It looks great in your kitchen!
Gail Sheppard
Love ❤️ your 2 coloured quilting! It’s perfect for this beautiful wall hanging!
Kathleen McCormick
Love your version, especially the fun plaid quilting! Too funny to see the Christmas quilt up, but sometimes that is the way it is. So nice of you to help Vicki out!
Preeti
oh Wow!!! Beautiful and Timely. Have a great weekend, Wendy!
laura bruno lilly
I love it when there’s a good opportunity to use colored threads as part of the quilting design – great job!
texasquiltgal
Wow that is beautiful. I really love your displays! Especially love the Christmas quilt photo-bombing. 😉 Your applique stitching is so neat and clean. I’ve never tried that on my machine, I really need to give it a shot. And the plaid quilting is perfect. Nice job!
Hope you are resting well this weekend.
Janine @ Rainbow Hare
That looks great on your wall. I love the colour of your paint 🙂
The Morning Latte
Love the creative quilting! Perfect hanging spot, too!