Daffodil Quilt

One of the first signs of spring in our area is when the daffodils start blooming. After a long, cold and oftentimes dreary winter, their bright yellow flowers are truly a welcome sight! I’ve finished this quilt with it’s pretty daffodil-like blocks just in time to celebrate the arrival of spring.

I love using Robert Kaufman’s Kona cotton solid fabrics, so for the top of the quilt I chose Kona cotton Bleach White PFD for the background and Kona cotton Mustard for the “flowers”.

For the backing, I used Poppie Cotton’s Meadow in white and for the binding, Seedlings in white from their Wanderings fabric collection. I am in love with this collection, it just speaks to my heart everytime I look at it.

The daffodil block is a variation of the square-in-a-square block, also called diamond-in-a-square or Amish Diamond block. This is a simple block which combines squares and triangles.

I arranged the blocks on point - which means the blocks were positioned in diagonal rows instead of vertical and horizontal rows. It changed the look of the quilt completely - from ordinary to stylish. Continuing the diagonal theme, I machine-quilted diagonal parallel lines an inch apart.

The backing of the quilt has a pretty floral design with yellows, blues, pinks and greens. The binding I hand-stitched to the quilt.

This is the perfect size quilt to snuggle under with a great book!
 
Dimensions: 70” x 52” (throw size)