simply stripes

You know how people always say the inspiration can be found everywhere, right? Well, I'd like to show you where the inspiration for my newest quilt came from.

My daughter's t-shirt!  As I was doing laundry I was so drawn to these pretty stripes of different widths that as soon as I was done putting all the clothes away I headed straight for my fabric stash.

At first I wanted to go with all solid fabrics and mimic the t-shirt quite literally.  I changed my mind, of course, and decided to use prints for the colored stripes instead. I wanted it to become a child's quilt so out came Walk in the Woods by Aneela Hoey, Woodland by Lecien, as well as some random polka dot and Kona white from my stash.

I cut the strips of different width and my quilt top was finished in no time. I did have a system with the stripes - each color/ pattern as well as the connecting white stripe was the same width (somewhere between 1" and 2.5").

I pieced the back using some more Walk in the Woods fabric as well as Kona white. I did straight line quilting along both sides of each white stripe and bound the quilt using hot pink and red polka dotty fabric. I love how pretty and bright this fabric is, such a wonderful counterpart to the crispness of Kona white.

And here it is, all nice and crinkly after being washed and dried. Aaaah!

Have a wonderful weekend, Svetlana.