Appleicious, Quilt Fun!

I have loved this quilt since the day I saw it in Lori Holt's first book, "Quilty Fun".

I made this quilt a year and a half ago, you can see the post here.

I love the simplistic look of the crosshatch machine quilting.

I think that it's a really great modern look.

I'm going to hang this quilt up in the fall, even though I don't think there is a fall season in Arizona!

I'll just have to think back to my years growing up in Canada.

I love this quilt so much, that I have a board on Pinterest, devoted to this quilt!

I love the back!

Lori Holt's "modern minis" mason jars and at the bottom, I put of strip of her "bake sale" cookie recipe fabric.

When I see apples, I sometimes think of canning applesauce, hence the mason jars.

I also think of apple pie, hence the cookie recipe fabric :)

That's how my mind works, lol!

I didn't use a scrappy binding this time, because I thought there was enough scrappy going on.

I made one of the apple leaves aqua colored instead of green, just to add some interest :)

Appleicious, Quilty Fun!

I've had these fabrics chosen, and the squares for the apples cut, sitting on a design board on my floor in the corner, for 2 l/2 years!!!

I have been so busy sewing blessing gowns and baby quilts and birthday and Christmas gifts for grandchildren, traveling to visit family, and just plain life!

I've had some time lately and have been finishing my WIPs.

I picked this project up from the floor and it literally had a layer or two of dust on it, lol!

I've loved this quilt since I first saw it, I even have a Pinterest board dedicated to it.

It really didn't take long to sew up these little apples.

It's funny how your fabric taste changes over the years. 

I may not have chosen some of these prints or colors if I was making the quilt today.
I probably would have added some Cotton and Steel!

I still like them though....

My favorite apples are Honeycrisp and Pink Lady. 

I also love Golden Delicious, and Granny Smith for salads.

That's why I included a lot of pinks, yellows and greens :)

Ta Da!!!

My own little appleicious quilt!

I'm going to machine quilt it myself, but probably won't be able to  until the new year.

I love Moda dots, with the white background and the colored dots.

This background is in gray dots, and surprisingly, it didn't take as long as I thought it would, to sew the borders together.

I'm so happy with my little quilt!

Lots of Lori Holt's prints, some of Pam Kitty's, and other random prints that I love.

Do you notice the little blue leaf?

It's my red and aqua apple :)

Apple-Icious

I love this book, there are so many projects I want to make!

I decided to make the Apple-icious quilt and these are the fabrics I've pulled for it.

I'm currently cutting my squares, and working on other projects as well.

I knew that I had to get this started or I may never get to it!

I was looking for a sample of the quilt to show you, and found it on "A Little Bit Biased", you can see it here.

My favorite apples are pink and yellow, but the most colorful are the red ones.

I may have too many pinks and yellows, but I'll see how they look all laid out next to each other.

To be continued.....