Easter Quilt
Fun times for Easter! I was looking for a birthday/Easter quilt to make for my sister this year. I gathered up all my old fabrics and a few I purchased recently and then I needed to find a fun pattern.
I searched the web and I was excited to find Elizabeth Hartman's Bunny pattern. It's a really cute bunny face and would work with both my Easter fabrics and my retro 1930's fabrics.
I searched the web and I was excited to find Elizabeth Hartman's Bunny pattern. It's a really cute bunny face and would work with both my Easter fabrics and my retro 1930's fabrics.
Hartman's pattern is just bunnies and I wanted to have a little more fun. I first looked at Flower Basket quilt pattern, but it just didn't feel right. I also looked at eggs and how to make them using strip sets. In my stash, I had a neat vintage Hallmark Cranston VIP fabric with lots of eggs. This was it! I combined the flower basket's basket with the eggs and I had my second set of squares.
I thought about embroidering the eggs and instead went with fusible web to attach the eggs. I also looked at using a rick-rack handle for the baskets, but it just didn't look that great. I had to play around with widths and heights due to the shape of the bunny blocks. I ended up with 12.5" wide by 13" tall for both blocks. Here's a photo of the initial design work of the blocks.
Once the blocks were made, it was time to choose a separating fabric. I liked the retro gingham fabric I had and since my wife had already said I was making 2 of these quilts, I let her choose the color.
For my sister's quilt, we laid out several choices for the outline fabric before opting for the pink.
While the pink plaid was the favorite, the colors were too strong and would have overwhelmed the quilt. The pink was the winner!
These 2 quilts are awaiting a trip to the long arm quilter's house. Can't wait until they're done!
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