Hello Quilting Friends! It’s Melissa Corry from Happy Quilting here, with you today. I am thrilled to be sharing one of my newest quilt finishes with you today that features the happy and sweet Honeycomb Hill fabrics by Katherine Lenius . We continue to get snow here in Southern Utah, so I have been all about making quilts that will bring on Spring!! And Honeycomb Hill is a wonderful way to welcome spring. So I went to my new Fast & Fun Lap Quilts book, that has just been re-released, and picked an adorable Lap Quilt to whip up!
And here it is, Aurora in Honeycomb Hill
What I really love about the quilts in my Fast & Fun Lap Quilts book is that they are all made from one 10″ Stacker and a background fabric. So all I needed to get started was a Honeycomb Hill 10 Inch Stacker. I decided to pull out the navy prints from the line (I used one in the binding) so that I could use a beautiful Oxford Blossom for the background. I love the way that beautiful blue just makes all of those Spring Colors in Honeycomb Hill just pop!!!
And didn’t it just turn out so beautiful!!! I love how the stars just pop in the center of both blocks, whether they are in the print or the background. So pretty!! I also purposely used the gingham prints in the “chain” and I think they are just a perfect fit there. Aurora really lets you play with where you want the prints in each component of the design, and I had such a great time mixing and matching these prints to make each block shine!!
And Aurora might look like a little complex, but it truly is a super fast quilt to whip up and oh so much fun to make. The cool thing about Aurora, even though the blocks look completely different, they are made using the same techniques. It is just fabric placement changes and unit orientation that gives you two different blocks, but they are made the same way. So fun!!! Aurora finishes at 68″ square, so it is a great lap size to snuggle up in.
And when it came time to quilt mine, I decided to to an all over Loose Feather design. I love how it complements the prints in the line with all the swooping leaves and flowers. It really just adds to the spring feel as it looks like vines growing across the quilt. And of course, it is a super relaxing design to quilt and is super fast as well, double bonus!
And that is my new Aurora quilt! I hope you have enjoyed this post. To see more of my Fast & Fun Lap Quilts book, you can visit my blog and see all the quilts. Again, each of the 9 quilts in the book are made with one 10″ Stacker and a background fabric. It just makes it so fun and easy to whip up these lap quilts!
Oh, and if you make your own Aurora Quilt, (or any of the quilts from Fast & Fun Lap Quilts) I would love to see them! You can share your projects with me on social media with the hashtags #happyquiltingwithmc and #rileyblakedesigns and tagging @happyquiltingmc or email me a picture at happyquiltingmelissa@gmail.com. I can’t wait to see your Quilts!!
And one last note before I go . . . I have just started the Fast & Fun Sampler Quilt Along at my blog, Happy Quilting! This sampler uses blocks from each of the 9 quilts in my Fast & Fun Lap Quilts Book. I had so much fun working on the design for this quilt along and hope you love it as much as I do. You can see all the details for joining in this quilt along here .
Thank you so much to Riley Blake Designs for having me here on their blog. And to see more of my Happy Quilting adventures, you can stop by my Happy Quilting Blog for a visit, follow me on Instagram @happyquiltingmc or visit my Happy Quilting Facebook Page. I just love being able to share lots of quilting goodness on a daily basis and would love to share it with you.
I hope you have a very Happy Quilting Day!!!