It's a Boy!!

 Hi all -

I hope everyone is doing well! I'm visiting family right now, but driving back home tomorrow. My nephew and his wife had their gender reveal party for their new baby and -- it's a boy!! He will be a wonderful addition to his sister and cousin! Now to start thinking about the baby quilt.....

Since I'm visiting family, I didn't do much crafting last week. I just made a little bit of progress on my Tula Sunrise quilt designed by Tula Pink. This is an English Paper Piecing (EPP) kit that I'm leaving at my sister's house. EPP is all done by hand so is the perfect project to work on where I don't have a sewing machine. Last time I was visiting, I started the quilt and found out that the kit was missing a couple of the solid fabrics. I brought some replacement fabrics from home and cut out and basted these pieces so I could take the rest of the fabric back home in case I need it there.

Tula Sunrise - Basted Solid Pieces

I also found that the fabric in the kit that was meant for the corner pieces didn't have what I needed. In the quilt photo, the corner pieces were fussy cut from the monkey fabric, putting a monkey in each corner. This fabric was also fussy cut for one of the sun centers.

Tula Sunrise - Corner Fabric From Kit

The way the piece of fabric in the kit was cut, there weren't the needed five monkey motifs. So I also looked through my stash at home for a replacement. I found a couple that I thought would work, and thought that this would work best:

Tula Sunrise - Corner Pieces

The skunks are from a different line of Tula's fabric, but I think they will still match and they're fun. I also like that there were motifs facing both directions so I don't have to put any of the skunks in the quilt upside-down. Not a lot of progress on the quilt, but I did do everything I needed to do with my stash fabric so I can take all of that back home with me.

Nancy