"Summer Nights" Firefly Quilt

Here is my finished “Summer Nights” firefly quilt! (Clearly it isn’t summer here at the moment)!! The firefly fabric is from the “Let Your Light Shine” line by Blank Fabric Corporation. The information about how to make this quilt is in my previous post.

It’s a small lap quilt, 38 1/2 x 48 inches. The quilting is straight line, 1/8 inch, just to the right of the blocks, following the grid of the quilt. There is one yellow “light” block with a free-motion quilted initial of the child to whom this quilt will belong.

Here is the quilt’s label. I incorporated the fabric’s name from selvedge in the label.

Quilt label, with a message of encouragement!

The bright-lights-in-the-night theme is carried on in the backing fabric.

Starry backing fabric

This was a fun project which I especially enjoyed making. And it comes with a little secret which won’t be evident until the light are out—the fireflies fabrics are glow-in-the-dark! Best surprise ever!!

"Summer Nights" Firefly Quilt Design

This is the quilt fabric I am so excited to show you. The two feature firefly fabrics are from the “Let Your Light Shine” line from Blank Quilting Corporation. Fireflies! They remind me so much of summer nights.

I wanted to make an easy quilt so I designed this Four Patch variation. There is a little light shining in The corner of one of the firefly-in-the-bushes blocks.

The 4 patch blocks are cut 5 1/2 inches square. The variation block has an inset cut at 1 1/2 inch square with a 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 inch strip. These two patches are sewn together and then f set into a block which is cut 4 1/2 inches x 5 1/2 inches. It’s that simple!

Here is the quilt design I created in Electric Quilt 8.

“Summer Nights” Firefly Quilt Design

In my next post I’ll show you the finished quilt.