Here Comes the Sun quilted Wall-hanging

Date: 2018 to 2018
Location: Ontario, Canada

Here Comes the Sun

A Four-Corners Quilters Guild Presidents Challenge – A spring-time song.

Made by Karen Carter - Finished May 2018

Size: 21 ½” long x 17 ¼” wide

There are so many wonderful spring-time songs. I choose Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles.

I used bright cheerful fabrics in my collection to paper-piece and incorporate two different patterns – the sun (You Are My Sunshine), and the tulips (Tulip Time) – from Quilters World 2015 Spring issue. I added the top and bottom checkerboard borders. What fun it was to add ‘the beetles’ strutting along the bottom edge.

Quilting with my Pfaff Expression 2 home sewing machine, I traced around a 1” x 1.5” Westalee clamshell template (from bottom to top) for the edge-to-edge design. That was a challenge since I had eye surgery a week earlier, but I wanted it finished for the following week’s guild quilt show, May 11 - 12.

At our guild’s quilt meeting held a month later, I donated it to a silent auction to raise money for a guild member’s son who was seriously injured in a fire. Unfortunately, I did not attend the event, so I do not know how much it sold for. But I do know the mother of the victim bought the item.