Blue and Yellow Quilt with Circles

Here’s another blue and yellow quilt I just completed which will probably go to a refugee from Ukraine at some point in the fall. Like the Hachi Quilt made using Ukrainian blue and yellow fabric which I made this spring, this quilt includes sunflower flowers and storks. The sunflowers are reverse circles peeking through to the top of the quilt and the storks are in the center of both the big Economy Quilt Blocks.

I took the template from one of favorite quilts, “Flying Economy” quilt and adapted it to add reverse circles, circles made using quarter circles blocks and semi-circles. The “Flying Economy” quilt I made in 2018 was inspired by a quilt designed by Sam Hunter called “Fourteen on Point”.

Most of the quilting in this quilt is straight line quilting done with a walking foot. But I know that I’m not any good doing free motion echo quilting around circles, so I hand quilted the circles using perle cotton #12 and a bit of #8 since I only had the bright yellow in the thicker thread.

This rectangular quilt is a nice size to wrap up in, hang on the back of a sofa, or to fold and place at the foot of a bed.

Hachi Quilt with Ukrainian Blue and Yellow Blocks

A couple of months ago O’Sewpersonal Sewing Center offered one of their weekly “colorwheel” Facebook sales bundles in Ukrainian blue and yellow. Their colorwheels contain 8 fat quarters that are somehow related, coordinated or are from a single fabric line. I decided to purchase one and use it to make a quilt.

I added the sunflowers and the stork fabric (fortuitously found on Spoonflower.com) which are Ukrainian favorites, as well as some more blues and yellows from my stash. This is another of the Japanese Hachi style quilts adding to the collection of Hachi quilts that I’ve made this year. The storks are, of course, the “unexpected visitors” in this quilt! (Look back at my November 4, 2021 post to read more about Hachi quilts).

The quilt has simple linear quilting which follow the quilt blocks. I hand quilted around the large stork near the center of the quilt to highlight it. It puffs out a bit from the quilt, which I really like. The backing fabric is bright yellow solid.

Hand Quilting around the stork

This quilt will eventually go to a Ukrainian refugee. I hope it gives them some happiness and hope.