WIP Wednesday 7.3.2024

I'm making progress on my Christmas in July Picnic quilt. I decided on 9 rows down by 6 across. The borders are cut white at 2.5 inches and the green at 4.5 inches. That brings the quilt to 58 x 80 before quilting. Since I used the winter avocados for the extra row, I didn't have enough for in the border. I would have to have cut it at 2.5 inches and that would have chopped up the design too much. This is the free download from Fabric Cafe, Pretty Please with a few modifications. Grab the Pretty Please pattern while you can, it's only available for a short time.

I also have a beauty shot of the whimsical avocados, so you don't need to enlarge the picture above.

pattern: Pretty Please by Fabric Cafe, found here.

Sharing today with Susan at MidWeek Makers.

Design Wall Monday 7.1.2024

We took the motor home about an hour north on Sunday to meet up with our son. It was a fun lunch time activity.

My family reunion is the weekend following July 4th. It looks like all my siblings will be gathered at our summer picnic but assorted children and grands will be missing. We are trying a summer picnic instead of a Christmas gathering as winter travel is getting harder for my oldest brother and sister. I usually give a red, white and blue quilt at Christmas time so this year I thought it would be fun to make a Christmas quilt for the summer picnic! LOL

Here are my fabric picks. When I was in Milwaukee, we went to a JoAnn's there looking for a particular Christmas print. That store had very little Christmas and I felt like I had to buy something Christmas-y. I ended up with avocados dressed in winter gear. It is whimsical. I am going to make Fabric Cafe's Pretty Please pattern, found here. It's a free download right now...so grab it while you can!

Here are the blocks on my design wall. I'm just winging it with more blocks to make it closer to throw/twin size.

Sharing today with Judy at Design Wall Monday.