Some days just come out right, like a batch of cookies from a recipe card so worn you can barely read it. Good Day to Quilt collects the designs that taste like those days: sunrise colors, happy sayings, a little mischief and a lot of thread. Here is the recipe, written the way our friends at guild would write it, with plenty of notes in the margins.
Ingredients
Start with one early morning. Wake Up and Quilt captures it in a round badge where a bright sun rises over rolling rainbow waves and a machine sits waiting in the middle. Add one full cup of coffee: I Turn Coffee Into Quilts floats a steaming cup on a blue sea under a golden sun, which is exactly the right amount of ambition for a Saturday. Fold in a generous helping of My Soul Is Fed With a Needle and Thread, lettered in rainbow script around a spool trailing its thread across the words.
Method
Keep it simple and repeat as needed. Eat Sleep Quilt Repeat lays out the whole method in a circle, with crossed needles, a spool and a tiny bed marking the steps. Life Is Short, Buy the Fabric reminds you to gather your ingredients without second guessing, and Blessed Are the Quilters, For They Shall Be Called Piece Makers blesses the batch in warm orange and coral. For a little color, a neon machine blooms with tropical flowers on black, and another machine sits snug inside a patchwork landscape of rainbow hills, sunbursts and ocean swirls.
Serving suggestions
This recipe keeps well in every season. In October, serve it with Sew Spooky, where a smiling green ghost drifts above dripping candy-colored letters, spiders dangling from their threads. On an ordinary afternoon, Quilting Is Shear Delight tops things off in rainbow script with a pair of scissors tucked into the words. And when someone asks how you knew what to make, I Can Totally Make That answers for you, with pins standing up like birthday candles.
Who to share it with
Share this recipe with the friend who calls on a Saturday morning just to ask what you are working on, the one who keeps a thermos in her sewing tote, and the quilter who treats a cleared calendar like a holiday. You know who reads recipe cards for fun and still adds her own twist. Tell her the secret ingredient is an uninterrupted afternoon. The coffee is optional, but the thread is not.
Written by Jacqueline. Thanks for reading.
