Flying Happy Quilt in Batiks WIP

Hi, I would like to share what I am working on in my sewing room this week. I am cutting out fabric for a new quilt. The quilt is called Flying Happy and it is a design that is part of Positive Trio by Melissa Eubanks of My Fabric Relish. I loved all three of the quilt designs in the Positive Trio quilt pattern so much that I purchased the pattern the first day that Melissa released it back in May. Flying Happy is my favorite so I decided to play with that one first.

Flying Happy (first block)

This is my first block that I have pieced. There are four sizes of quilts that you can make (mini, baby, throw and large throw) and I am making the large throw. This is a fat quarter friendly pattern.

My Fabric Pull, all fat quarters

I collected over a dozen new batik fat quarters and added extras I had left from my Catawampus quilt top.

Flying Happy

This is a chart from the pattern showing what the quilt will look like. I needed 18 fat quarters. Two or more of them were under the needed 18 inch width so I am adding a few extra squares from my stash to get the needed pieces. Melissa’s instructions have ample room and what would be scraps I am able to cut carefully and get a few extra pieces.

All my cut squares and rectangles

Here all my lovely batiks cut into the necessary pieces. I am choosing to use cream solid as my background. It would look lovely in gray or black, but cream is what I had. It took a bit to cut the well over 500 squares needed for the flying geese background. I have everything cut and placed in a basket hoping to not lose a precious single square to Miss Katie, who loves to eat fabric.

This week I finished up the September instructions for the Midnight Mystery quilt along by Meadow Mist Designs. We were to create square in a square blocks. They were fun to make and they went together well with almost nothing to trim off to square up the blocks.

Midnight Mystery quilt along September blocks

I really like my blue star fabric with the gray. Adding in the red solid background should make an interesting quilt.

Today is my Father inlaw Lee’s birthday. He is 78 and we think he is one of the best. This is one of 3 (I think) Speeder cars that he and Uncle Max own. This one is a two seater with open doors, and I know they have a four seater with closed doors. They like to ride the rails on what are usually abandoned railways or there are special events that railroads let the speeder car groups use their running rail lines when no trains are in the area. My husband has gone a few rides but I have not managed to get to ride yet.

I hope that everyone has a great weekend. We are excited that we get to spend time with some good friends out of town. They moved across the state last year at this time, and we only managed to see them once back in February, so it will be great to see them. They are the couple who are the big Minnesota Vikings fans who received the Boxed In and Out quilt in Vikings colors. It will be cool to see the quilt again being used in it’s natural habitat. Haha

Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog. I do greatly appreciate all comments.

Happy Sewing,

Shelley