Hi Makers! It’s Lisa Jo from Neverlandstitches, back again to share a new memory and quilt with you. March always makes me think of going with my dad to buy a kite at the toy store next to my grandfather’s Pharmacy, assembling it and then flying it on our street. The trees were much smaller then as the neighborhood was new at the time. This memory was the inspiration for the quilt pattern, Box Kites, and Jill Finley of Jillily Studio‘s new collection On The Wind is perfect for this quilt.
One the Wind features beautiful denims, greens, yellows, corals, blushes, and whites. The prints are kites, children playing, the wind blowing, dandelions, pinwheels, paper air planes, and argyle.
I decided that I would feature the wind, pinwheels, kites and dandelions for the binding. I absolutely adore how these fabrics look. It makes me want to take my grands to the store to get kites, but them together and then go to the neighborhood park and fly the kites.
Pre-machine binding being sewn on, here’s a peak at the fun Bee’s Crossstich fabric I selected to use to back the quilt. Also, a close up of the fun quilting, which almost looks like kites.
The pattern for Box Kites is available in my Etsy Shop, if you’d like to make a version for yourself or someone special in your life.
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Until next time…I hope you always find something around you that inspires your creativity…
Lisa Jo Girodat