Our quilt guild’s Summer Challenge this year was to pick a title or a line from a Beatles song and use as the inspiration for a quilt, wall hanging or other quilty project. I initially was going to use the song “Fixing a Hole”, and planned to sew a house block, putting a Sachiko patch on the roof.

But leafing through catalogs, I found this pattern, “Sunnyside” by Busy Hands Quilts in a Connecting Threads catalog. The tune “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds” instantly started going around my head! So that clinched that!

The cast has been off my broken hand for a few weeks, and finally I’ve had enough range of motion and strength to a bit of sewing each morning. The finished quilt is due this week. Not happening! But I’m delighted to have the top completed. Because our guild has one evening and one morning meeting a month, each with a slightly different cast of characters which warrants a second round in the competition, I hopefully can get it quilted and bound for judging at the next meeting in two weeks.