It's Week 4 of my Fast & Fun Lap Quilts Book Tour and today I am sharing the Aurora quilt! This quilt is made up of two blocks, that area actually pieced with the same units. I love how you can create two totally different blocks with the same pieces, so cool!!! Oh, and I always love adding a "chain" in one of my quilts from a book (see the reason here) and this chain is subtle, but it is the perfect finish for this Aurora quilt.
Here is the introduction I wrote about Aurora in the
Fast & Fun Lap Quilts Book. "I absolutly love designing Star blocks! Truly, they are my go-to bread and butter of designing. In Aurora, I added a pieced frame to a basic Ohio Star to create an amazing block. Then a simple change n fabric placement and orientation made a wonderful new second block that forms a chain across the quilt top. The two blocks combine to make a stunning quilt."
When writing this book, I tried to give you all of the tips and trick that I would share if I were teaching a quilting class. This is my favorite tip from the Aurora quilt. It is the same as the "
pin trick" that I share here, and it a total game changer in lining up lots of points. My pinwheels have never looked so great :) And this quilt has lots and lots of points, and they come out so perfect with this little trick ;)
Aurora was made using
Beautiful Day fabrics by
Corey Yoder for
Moda Fabrics. All the quilts in Fast and Fun Lap Quilts are made with 1
Layer Cake/10" Stacker and a background fabric. You will use 33 of the 10" squares for this quilt, and the Plan Ahead tip will help you divide your fabrics, so you know exactly where each fabric will go in your quilt and can plan accordingly. This quilt finishes at 68" x 68", making it a great square lap size.
I had so much fun custom quilting each of the quilts in Fast & Fun Lap Quilts . For this Aurora quilt, I quilted swirls in the background, and then straight lines and pebbles in the blocks. I left the center stars unquilted so they pop :) And you know, it's my favorite 402 So Fine thread that I used to blend perfectly into the white background and all of the prints. I just love how it all came together.
And that is Aurora quilt, the fourth lap quilt in my new
Fast & Fun Lap Quilts book ! You can find the Fast & Fun Lap Quilts book in your local or online quilt shops,
C&T Publishing, or if you would like a
personalized signed copy, you can order from my Etsy shop. And if you make your own Aurora quilt, I would love to see it!! You can share your quilts with me on social media using hashtag #happyquiltingwithmc and #fastandfunlapquilts and tag me @happyquiltingmc or you can email me a picture at happyquiltingmelissa@gmail.com.
And speaking of making an Aurora Quilt, my good friend,
Vanessa Goertzen has mocked up Aurora using her new
Christmas Eve fabrics that will come out in May of next year!!! Isn't that just so amazing!!!! This design looks so amazing in Christmas and this has totally been added to my "to make" list. You can see all the details at Vanessa's blog ,
Lella Boutique .
And while you are visiting
Vanessa at Lella Boutique, be sure to enter her giveaway.
Christmas Eve isn't out until May of 2023, but Vanessa scored one Christmas Eve Layer Cake to giveaway!! How awesome is that!!! You can enter the giveaway
at her blog.
I am just so happy to share this Aurora quilt and be sure to pop back in on Friday when I will share a second version of the quilt (and it just so happens to be made with more of Vanessa's fabrics, so fun :)
I hope you all have a very Happy Quilting Day!