Craft Book Month: Candy Coated from Sunday Morning Quilts

Thanks for stopping by for my day on the Craft Books Month blog hop! My project is "Candy Coated," the cover quilt from Sunday Morning Quilts by Amanda Jean Nyberg and Cheryl Arkison.

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If you haven't picked up this book yet, you really should. I think I love every single pattern in there. So many I want to make, so little time! (There aren't many books out there I can say that about.) In fact, it was difficult to choose just one for this post. Fortunately, this quilt is going to be a wedding gift, so I ended up choosing the one I thought the happy couple would like the most and started gleefully chopping up my scraps.

I followed the pattern in the book to a T, and that's rare for me these days. (Another sign of how much I like this book!) I stuck with the three-color-scheme of the original quilt (although I used a different trio of colors), I cut all my string scraps to the sizes from the book, and I even quilted it the same as the original, with wavy lines going in the opposite direction of the strings.

The result is a fabulous scrap quilt that's still modern and not overwhelming scrappy. : ) I pretty much cleared out my gray scrap bin on this one—in fact, I even had to supplement a bit from my stash. And this was such a fun, low-pressure project to sew. Sewing strings together in this way is low-key and doesn't require a whole lot of thought or concentration, and that's exactly the kind of project I needed last week.

The back is just pieced together sections of coordinating fabric from my stash.

I think it's a great fall quilt. : )

Have you been following all the Craft Book Month posts over at Craft Buds? So many beautiful projects from craft books have been featured over there! And of course: Prizes. Need I say more? Here's the full schedule:

Sunday 9/2: Hopeful Threads / The Jolly Jabber

Monday 9/3: Stitchery Dickory Dock / Me Sew Crazy

Tuesday 9/4: Olive & Ollie / Sew Sweetness

Wednesday 9/5: Fabric Seeds / The Busy Bean

Thursday 9/6: CraftFoxes / Stitched In Color

Friday 9/7: Katie's Korner / A Prairie Sunrise

Week Two

Sunday 9/9: Sweet Diesel Designs / missknitta's studio

Monday 9/10: Sew Tara / Clover and Violet

Tuesday 9/11: Sew Fantastic / amylouwho

Wednesday 9/12: Projektownia Jednoiglec / Two More Seconds

Thursday 9/13: Ellison Lane Quilts / Don't Call Me Betsy