Buttons and Butterflies: cloud 9 fabrics

Saturday, November 18, 2017

Spelling Bee Quilt: Letter F {Quilt Along}

Fat Quarter shop is running a a quilt along to celebrate the Spelling Bee Book.

The Spelling Bee Book is by Lori Holt of Bee in my Bonnet and features complete instructions for 100 letter, number, punctuation and picture blocks in two sizes plus 18 quilt projects!

The Sew Along will feature 88 of the blocks from the Spelling Bee Book! Lasting 44 weeks, the Sew Along will feature 2 blocks from the book each week. I was asked to join and and have a few exciting projects from them!

Today is the seventh week and I have the capital letter F.

I will confess, I wasn't sure what I planned to do with a lonely letter F.

Until my sweet Button walked in the studio and said "F-O-X, mom!".

If you anyone knows us well, Button is obsessed with foxes for the past year and a half!

The book has a bunch of cute options for characters like globes, butterflies, and hearts, but no foxes.

So I designed an English Paper Pieced Fox head that resembled an "O".

There isn't eyes as of yet, because he cannot decide what he wants at the moment.

I think sleepy eyes, but he isn't sold yet.

We did agree to make a giant pillow cover for his bed.

We both love the linen background, Cotton + Steel basics,

and the leftover fox print form his Fox quilt!!

He really loves it on his bed, so that is all that really matters!!!

Quilt Stats:

Measures: Block size 6', Pillow size 12x25"

Pattern: F and X from Spelling Bee Book by Lori Holt, Fox by myself

Fabrics: Cotton +Steel basics, Kona white, Essex Linen, Cloud 9 foxes

Quilted: Crosshatch on Babylock Symphony

To see another rendition of the F, visit Pam at Pam Kitty Morning!

Stay tuned for more letters and picture blocks from the quilt along.

I have one more this month and another next month!!! There is a list of all the weeks and the contributors at the Jolly Jabber!

Sunday, March 12, 2017

Button's Fox {Quilt}

"What does the fox say?"

This quilt is everything to Button right now.

It all started with a trip to Target for some school supplies in August.

He spotted this coin purse he HAD to have!

When we got home, he asked me if it was possible to make a Fox quilt. I instantly thought of Elizabeth Hartman's Fancy Fox pattern and knew he would love it.

As soon as I showed it to him, he went shopping on my pre-cut shelves and pulled out this Fat Quarter Bundle with Moda Bella solids I had bought at Quiltcon 2015.

He then proceeded to follow me around with it.
Even if he was at school, I would find the bundle sitting in strategic places where I would find it.
He was getting kinda creepy...so I bought the pattern.

When I finally showed him the pattern instructions?
He started to camp out in my studio to make sure I was working on it.
I was even scolded for texting.

I worked quickly and had almost all the blocks done. But then he wasn't happy it wasn't a "rainbow". I would make more blocks. Then we would go a few weeks without addressing it because he couldn't decide on more colors or less colors or the layout.
He once told me that he "wasn't in the mood right now" like a fickle artist.

When we both finally agreed on the final layout, I got to work piecing it all together.

And then I ran out of the Essex Linen Background. I just needed the bottom 2.5" border strip.
We were also at a standstill because he couldn't decide on a backing. After spotting a backing fabric on Amazon suggestions while I was ordering a client's fabric selection, I made up my mind quickly to get more fabric and choose the binding for him.