Ready, Set, Soar! {Pattern Premiere}

In the midst of moving (we got the keys to our new place yesterday!), I'm excited to share our newest Honey, Bunny, and Doll pattern! Say hello to Ready, Set, Soar!

Ready, Set, Soar! is our newest baby quilt pattern that Amanda designed for the first baby of one of her best friends. She used their airplane themed nursery to be inspired and came up with a plane carrying the little man's name on a banner! Seriously, how cute is this little guy?

This pattern includes all of the instructions to make the quilt top as well as applique patterns for the airplane and an entire alphabet!

We loved the basic "bones" of this pattern so much we keep coming up with other ideas to change up the design! My mom took the basic quilt top pattern and added little whales instead of an airplane!

So for your pleasure we have two applique pattern add-ons to Ready, Set, Soar! -- Whales on Parade as well as an adorable little turtle!

Ready, Set, Soar! is only $7 with infinite possibilities!

I've made two versions of this quilt -- a mermaid version and a butterfly version.

Visit Etsy to purchase this pattern! Don't forget to check out our Boot Scootin' Baby pattern too on Etsy! 

My Loss Is Your Gain {GIVEAWAY}

As I've mentioned before, my husband and I are in the process of moving. I've been reorganizing my stash and trying to be a little critical of what I have so in addition to putting a few of my quilts up for sale (which is really hard!), I'll also be doing some giveaways of some of my fabric stash, patterns, and books that need new homes.

Today's giveaway is a BRAND SPANKING NEW fat quarter bundle of Midnight Clear by Three Sisters for Moda that I actually won as a part of a giveaway this fall. I'm not ready to make another Christmas quilt just yet, so hopefully someone else loves this line!

Look it's even in the plastic wrap still!

There's going to be two options for entries:

1. One free easy entry for everyone: Tell me what pattern you would use this bundle with!

2. Instead of doing a followers only entry, anyone can get a second entry for sharing the link to this giveaway post. You share on any social media platfrom -- Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, your own blog, Instagram, whatever. Just leave a second comment with the LINK to the post where you shared it. (I have posted the picture on Instagram for easy re-gramming!)

{NOTE: I will NOT pick you as a winner if you are a no-reply blogger. Click here to see how to fix that. If your email doesn't pop up when I try to reply to your comment via email, you will not win, I will pick someone whom I can easily contact. Thanks!}

Easy peasy lemon squeezy! I will ship this item for free anywhere in the USA and if the winner is in Canada/Europe, they will need to pay shipping.

This giveaway will close one week from today, January 29th, at 5 PM. I will email the winner and update this post with who won!

(PS. If you aren't already a follower, you should be, mostly because more than likely there WILL be more stash-clearing giveaways in the next two weeks, hint hint!)

UPDATE: The giveaway is now closed and our winner is Margaret!

Frame of Mind -- in action!

A long while back, I got an email from a lovely lady named Janet asking permission to use my Frame of Mind pattern from Moda Bake Shop in the class that she teaches at a vocational school in Oklahoma! I of course immediately said yes! 

Janet sent me these pictures of the ladies with their quilts-in-progress! These look lovely and I'm glad to see my patterns put to good use!

Congrats, ladies, on a lovely group of quilts!

As always, if you've made a project from a pattern designed by me, let me know and you might see it featured here on Little Bunny Quilts!

Traveling Quilt Bee: Month #6

This is the last month of The Traveling Quilt Bee for my group! It has been a very fun process and an extremely well run bee -- thank you hosts!

For this last month, I had Lee's quilt. Her quilt was nature-themed in rainbow colors with scrappy low volume backgrounds. I was a little stumped at first with what to add but I knew that I wanted to get this one done over the long weekend so it was off my plate before I need to shift into "MOVE ALL THE THINGS" mode. (PS. Don't forget to check out my quilts for sale!)

The first blocks I added were six bird blocks in rainbow colors in some of my favorite fabrics. The pattern is from the Block Lotto and it was a really fun scrappy block to make! I trimmed my blocks down slightly from the pattern so that they would fit along the length of the quilt.

Here is my little flock:

I really like that the legs are all different! It gives them a little more personality. My favorites are the yellow and the blue birds -- what do you think?

Deciding on the second section to add was MUCH harder, but I ultimately decided to go with the Garden Snail block by Pen and Paper Patterns after seeing all of the cute snails on Instagram recently!

I made seven little snails:

I just love these little guys! I am so glad I broke down and bought the pattern because now I want to make lots of little snails. It was so awesome to be able to use all scraps for these blocks!

Here's the quilt all put together before I mailed it off to its home:

Isn't it gorgeous?!?!?!?! As of right now, this quilt is 49 inches wide and 54 inches long.  It will be fun to see how Lee finishes her quilt and see all of the finished quilts back with their owners! I don't have a picture yet of my quilt to show (sad!) but I am excited to get it back very soon! Hopefully when I get back my quilt, I will be able to share pictures of all six of the quilts.

Happy Wednesday! Sharing at Let's Bee Social and Needle and Thread Thursday!

Summer Solstice {Finished Quilt}

While I technically finished this on New Year's Eve, this is my first finish share of 2017! My Summer Solstice quilt is completed!

I made this as a part of Melissa at Happy Quilting's Summer Solstice QAL last summer. I finished the quilt top in September with the QAL schedule, but put it aside because I wasn't ready to quilt it. As you might have seen on Instagram, I pieced my backing and was able to do the pin basing the week after Christmas and I did all of the quilting and binding on New Year's Eve.

For the quilting I did a meander with leaves to echo the leaves in the prints. I used an orchid thread for the quilting. White thread seemed like it wouldn't bend well on the front since the background is magenta and magenta seemed like it would show up too much on the green and white fabrics, so orchid it was. I did find the exact shade that I wanted, but it did take a little bit of searching and comparing. Most of the threads were either too pink or too purple!

For the backing, I pieced the remainder of the white print with a coordinating black floral print that I didn't end up using in the quilt and found an additional chartreuse print from my stash. It's always so nice to not have to buy a backing!

For the binding, I didn't have enough of any of the remaining prints (originally I was going to use the black print from the backing, oops), so I used a magenta geometric print fabric from my stash for the binding. I hand stitched this one to the back while watching movies, which is one of my favorite things to do!

Stats:
Pattern: Summer Solstice by Melissa Corry of Happy Quilting
Size: 50" square
Fabrics: Mostly Botanica by Timeless Treasures (won this fabric all the way back in 2012!)
Quilting: Leaf meander in orchid thread

Sharing at Finish it up Friday!