orange!

I woke up yesterday morning and decided it was time for the polar bears to come down.  This past fall I made a maple mini quilt and hung it on the wall behind my computer.  When winter came around, I made a winter-ish one.  Now that winter is long gone, especially here in Southern California (where it was never really here in the first place) I needed a change.

My husband has been working long hours from work and I wanted to let him sleep in yesterday morning, so the kids and I raided my bags of orange and low volume scraps.  My daughter is actually pretty helpful, my son just likes to make a giant mess.

I have been loving orange lately.  It was so fun to involve my daughter in the process (she also helped me make her remixed geese quilt).  She insisted on using every orange and low volume novelty scrap I have so there are jack-o-lanterns, chickens, bunnies, elephants, etc.

It is pretty small, around 20" square.  I went with orange peel quilting.  I couldn't resist since it is so orange.  Here it is in action (the lighting in my dining room is awful).

The best part was that I finished it yesterday while my daughter was asleep and she was so excited to see her quilt hanging on the wall this morning.  I can't wait until she is a little older and I can teach her how to sew :)