Sunshine Sewing
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Bring some Scandinavian charm to your crafting this spring with Tilda's Sunshine Sewing. This book of original patterns by Tone Finnanger is packed with delightfully lighthearted sewing and quilting projects. Here you’ll find step-by-step instructions, complete with detailed photographs, for two full size quilts, plus pillows, soft toys and bags—all made with Tilda’s beautiful fabric ranges.
The twelve adorable projects are all inspired by summers spent along the Scandinavian coast and countryside, with motifs of lemons, fruit trees, birds, octopuses, mermaids, jellyfish, narwhals, starfish and more.
Tone Finnanger
Tone Finnanger created the Tilda brand in 1999 and it is now internationally known for its whimsical, comical and naive characters in the form of animals and dolls. Tone Finnanger has a distinctive style that is popular with crafters of all ages and abilities. She has written several books including Sew Pretty Homestyle, Sew Sunny Homestyle, Crafting Tilda's Friends, Tilda's Christmas Ideas, Tilda's Summer Ideas, and Tilda's Studio. She lives in Norway.
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Sunshine Sewing - Tone Finnanger
Introduction
As the days grow longer and spring flowers burst through the ground, no one is as excited as we Norwegians. Hope is light green, as the Norwegian author Alexander Kjelland wrote: we survived another long, dark winter. A Norwegian will rest in winter and live through summer, and the level of energy changes drastically as the spring bursts, painting the beautiful nature a glorious light green. The Norwegian spring is generous when it finally comes. As a designer, I get to visit spring and summer on the screen in front of me through the dark winter months, while working with new fabric collections and books. The work is done with a feeling of longing that might just shine through.
In this book we have used the spring and summer collections Lemontree and Sunkiss. When designing these fabrics, my mind wandered to warmer climates and recalled childhood memories spending time at my grandparents’ place in southern Europe, where the lemon trees thrived, the water was turquoise and the flowers were colourful. My grandparents are gone, but there is still a date palm left in their old garden named after me and planted the day I was born.
We hope you will find something to inspire you in this book, to get your house into a happy, colourful spring and summer mode. Many of the projects are suitable for children or grandchildren.
As always, I work with a team of wonderful people and I am so grateful for their talents. Seamstress Ingun Eldøy sews all the models and Linda Clements writes the explanations. Line Dammen works with styling and planning and Inger Marie Grini takes the wonderful pictures. I would also like to thank my publisher F&W Media for their fantastic cooperation.
Have a creative spring and summer!
Best regards
Lemonade Quilt
We are cutting lemons to make ‘Lemonade’ with this fun, modern quilt in bright Lemontree fabrics. The quilt uses all the fabrics from the collection, plus solid dove white for contrast.
MATERIALS
Fabric 1: 2¹⁄2yd (2.3m) – Solid dove white
Fabric 2: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Lemontree yellow
Fabric 3: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Lemonade yellow
Fabric 4: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Hummingbird dove white
Fabric 5: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Boogie Flower dove white
Fabric 6: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Flowerfield yellow
Fabric 7: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Flowerfield red
Fabric 8: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Boogie Flower red
Fabric 9: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Lemonade ginger
Fabric 10: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Mosaics red
Fabric 11: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Hummingbird coral
Fabric 12: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Lemontree blue
Fabric 13: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Lemonade blue
Fabric 14: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Hummingbird blue
Fabric 15: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Flowerfield blue
Fabric 16: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Boogie Flower blue
Fabric 17: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Boogie Flower green
Fabric 18: ³⁄8yd (40cm) – Hummingbird plum
Fabric 19: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Mosaics green
Fabric 20: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Lemontree plum
Fabric 21: ¹⁄4yd (25cm) – Lemonade green
Backing fabric 3¹⁄2yd (3.25m)
Wadding (batting) 61in x 80in (155cm x 203cm)
Binding fabric ¹⁄2yd (50cm) – Solid dove white
Template plastic or thin card to make templates
FINISHED SIZE
52¹⁄2in x 72in (133.3cm x 183cm)
PREPARATION AND CUTTING OUT
1 Before you start, refer to General Techniques: Making Quilts and Pillows. There are 240 blocks in the quilt, all made the same way. These blocks are assembled into two different units – Unit A and Unit B. Unit A is five blocks wide x seven blocks high, and this unit is repeated six times in the quilt. Unit B is five blocks wide x two blocks high, and is repeated three times at the bottom of the quilt. The fabrics used for the quilt are shown in Fig A and the quilt layout in Fig B.
2 Each block is made up of two curved pieces, created from a pair of patterns. Two pairs of patterns are supplied (with seam allowances) – Patterns 1A and 1B face one way and Patterns 2A and 2B face the opposite way (see Fig C). Copy the patterns onto card or template plastic. Note: Some shapes in the quilt need to be cut with these patterns rotated 180 degrees.
3 Fig D shows how to cut the shapes. When cutting the shapes from the solid Fabric 1, the fabric is reversible, so cut the numbers of shapes stated and then rotate and/or reverse (flip) the shapes as necessary before use. Some of the print fabrics will need to be cut with all four patterns, to ensure that the