This Super Simple Summer Quilt is ideal for highlighting
a few favorite fabrics with large scale prints.
Strip piecing and large blocks are used to make this quilt really quick
to sew together, so it can be completed in a full day or weekend. It would work with any
color scheme, but we chose red, white, and blue for a patriotic summer feel. And a big thank you to Fairfield World for providing me with batting and compensating me for designing this quilt and writing this post.
We've all got that stack of fabric at home that we're hoarding...fabric we love more than most and we're saving it until the perfect project finally comes along.
The Children at Play line by Sarah Jane Studios for Michael Miller Fabrics was that way for me, in particular the Rocket Launch Club fabric. Our family is big fans of brainy open-ended activities, and this fabric has it all, right down to the physics equations. The airplane fabrics if from the Patriots line celebrating Naval Aviation by Robert Kaufman, but is now just about impossible to find.
Unfortunately every single fabric in this quilt is out-of-print, but there are lots of current red, white, and blue prints out there that would also look amazing.
For best balance, you'll want to choose a fabric with a large scale print (or Rocket Boys), one that looks similar to a solid from a distance (our technical airplane drawings), a medium-to-small scale print (our red rockets), and something with stripes or dots or the like.
