Scarlet's home is primarily decorated in greens, reds and tans. The Fat Quarter Shop had just put out their feature on Kim Diehl and I liked those combinations to get the colors he wanted for Scarlet. While perusing the FQS website, I saw the Sunbeams pattern from It's Sew Emma. A bit of drawing, counting and calculating and I was ready to go.
I enjoy figuring out the math all by myself. It is enjoyable and it makes me feel smarter. That being said, I did mess up my math a little bit when I forgot to account for the half star centers and had to order a little bit more of a neutral to have enough for all the HST. I just needed enough for 5 more HST. A little irritating but not as much as when I couldn't find 16 of the color squares for the last four blocks. After a bit of looking, I just cut more squares. As I was cleaning up and all blocks were assembled, I found them already sewn together behind one sheet of paper in my notebook. Oops.
I am undecided on the backing and haven't started to think about the quilting. Ten years ago I injured my shoulder and aggravated it a few weeks ago working in the yard. The quilting and blogging have slowed down the last few months but my yard is looking less like a weed specimen garden.
Currently the quilt top is 56 by 70. It will either be backed in flannel or probably a solid backing. I'm thinking I might even go with a wide backing that I don't have to piece.
