Oh, Happy Day! Trunk Show

Today I’m excited to share an Oh, Happy Day! trunk show.  I’ll be chatting here on my blog about the projects as well as sharing a video on my YouTube channel.  This is going to be a newsy blog post so grab your favorite Saturday morning drink and let’s have fun. =)

If you’d like to skip right over to the video, you can find it here.

Let’s dive in!  Oh, Happy Day! is my newest book…it is in quilt shops now.  My idea behind the book is the many reasons that quilts make us happy and why that might be so.  I came up with various categories and then designed quilts to fit those categories.  Quilts might make us happy because they are made for a friend or for a new baby.  Maybe a quilt made for Christmas or made using your favorite colors might be fun.  I’m sure that you can come up with many different reasons a quilt makes you happy.

Oh, Happy Day! includes 11 quilts and 10 pillows.  I’ve included instructions to easily turn any one of the blocks from each quilt into a pillow.  This means that you can try out the blocks before committing to a whole quilt of them.  It also allowed me to show you how the block looks in different fabrics and quilting motifs.

Within each project, I’ve included information on the fabrics I used as well as the quilting design my quilter Kaylene Parry used for each quilt & pillow.  I am often asked about the quilting on my projects so including that information right in the book will be so helpful for all of you!

Let’s dive into the projects.  Up first is Proposal..this is “the one made with fat quarters”.  PS…if you watched my behind the scenes videos on the making of Oh, Happy Day!, you’ll know there is a little nod to the tv series Friends.  Martingale added the sweetest detail to the book because of this.  I shared about that little detail in my video today.

Proposal uses 9 fat quarters.

I used Tilda fabrics for my quilt…I love these warm colors.

Up next is Best Loved.  Best Loved is “the one made with your favorite colors”.

I am smitten with the color palette of Basic Grey’s Cider collection.  Those prints mixed with those grunges are so pretty.  This pattern lends itself so well to a graduation of color.

The 3rd quilt in the book is Friends Forever.  The happy category for this quilt is “the one made for a friend”.

This quilt is fun because it is a two for one project.  As you are working on the main quilt, pictured above, you will have cut-offs left over to make a second quilt.  It’s basically the quilt equivalent of those two-piece heart necklaces we shared with our bestie in junior high. =)  The quilt below is the bonus quilt you can make…you’d only need backing fabric and binding fabric to complete the second quilt.

Generations of Love is “the one Grandma made”.

This is a simple to piece jelly roll quilt that shines using At Home fabrics by Bonnie & Camille.

Sweetcake is another precut friendly quilt.  It features the layer cake and fits in the category “the one made with a Moda Layer Cake”.

Layer cakes are probably my favorite precut and I can never have too many layer cake patterns!

Oh, Happy Day (the cover quilt and the book’s namesake) is “the one made with solids”.

I started with the floral print from Sunnyside Up as the border and picked my solids to coordinate.

Hand quilted quilts are definitely quilts that make me happy.  Solitude is “the one that’s hand quilted”.

This is a smaller wall hanging sized quilt finishing at 36″ square.  If you’ve never hand quilted before, this is a very manageable size.  I am planning a hand quilting series on my YouTube channel so if this is something you’d like to learn how to do, make sure to subscribe so you don’t miss it. =)

Ohio girl is “the one made with your favorite quilt block”.  Do you have a favorite quilt block?  For me, as an Ohio girl…the Ohio Star block is my favorite.  It seems to shine in all quilts.

I also loved highlighting a stripe to frame out the borders around each block.  Stripes can be tricky to use in pieced quilts but they really add some pizzazz when used correctly!

I love this next quilt..and it’s Elonie’s favorite one also.  Slow Down is “the one made for baby”.

So many quilters get into quilting because they want to make a quilt for a new baby.  That’s a reason to be happy!

The last quilt in the book is Twinkle & Shine and it is “the one made for Christmas”.

I’ve had this design in my sketchbook for years and it was time to bring it to life. =)

I hope you have enjoyed this peek inside the pages of Oh, Happy Day!  If you’d like to see these quilts in more detail and see all of the pillows from the book, be sure to stop by my Oh, Happy Day! trunk show over on YouTube.

Oh, Happy Day! is in quilt shops now.  I also have signed copies available in my shop.  You will want to make sure to snag your copy for an upcoming (think fall) quilt along. 😉

Thank you for stopping by! Corey