Spring has been slow to visit us in Pennsylvania. Making this hanging for our front door cheered me up.
I used my Kona solids and two pieces of fabric purge survivors, a yellow polka dot and a cotton twill with a cute bird print.
I practiced my FMQ and have to say this was the first time I felt “I was leading it, not it leading me!” I’m too pleased with myself 😋
The inspiration for this project came from making March’s block from Patterns by Jen’s blog hop 2018 Monthly Color Challenge. And March’s is all yellow!
I made a variation of Sherry’s Powered by Quilting’s pattern:

This block is 12 x 12 with the center being 8”. I just made three smaller 4” diamond in a square blocks for the door hanging.
Every time I think of yellow, I sing the Coldplay song (out loud of course.) D says “Do you have to do that in the grocery store?!”
Click to listen to a beautiful rendition of “Yellow” by:
Kina Grannis
~Abbie 🌟🌻🍋💛
This is flat-out cute, cute cute!!! FMQ=is the finishing touch. Perfect!
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Thanks Sandy! You just made my day 😊
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Abbie – your wall hanging is sew cute! Your FMQ looks fabulous- go girl!!!
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Thanks Karla! I’m going to keep on going! 😊
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Hi Abbie,
What a happy, totally Spring hanging! I would be so happy to see this when visiting your house. Your FMQing looks great – nice job. It looks like you mapped out a plan before starting – that makes all the difference, doesn’t it?! ~smile~ Roseanne
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Hi Roseanne and thank you! I think the mailman likes it ~lol
It sure does, I have Lori of Inbox Jaunt’s book and it really helped guide me.
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Great job, Abbie. It does look like spring and yes it is a very.slow.process this year! Glad you are overcoming some FMQ challenges. I am tryinng to be creative with mine on a quilt I am finishing up but haven’t decided motifs. We all get there, in our own time, and in our own way. Try not to get distracted by where others are but be encouraged by your progress and each milestone you reach!
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Thank you Kathleen!
Your words of encouragement mean a lot to me 😊
Deciding what pattern to quilt is a challenge, repetition has helped a lot and I see progress so that motivates me keep on going.
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What a bright, happy little quilt for your door! It’s very pretty and you did a great job on the free motion!
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Thank you Wendy! Your compliment on my FMQ means a lot to me 😊
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You should be very pleased with yourself!👍👏
Your choice of fabric and design is perfect. I wish I could FMQ like you.
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Thank you Chela! 😊I was pleased with this project. And
I wish I could thread sketch like you!
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Love the door hanging and love the song!
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So cool you like both! Thanks Cindy 😊
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You’re quilting looks great! Well done.
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Thank you Jessica! 😊
Just started the book and I’m hooked!
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Such a great door decoration! I love the yellow!
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Thank you Emily! 😊
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That yellow and that blue are spectacular! I need to get more into solids someday – I love your piece (the fussy cut birds are perfect with the solids. I hope Spring hurries up and gets to visiting you!
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Thanks Tierney! I’m into solids because that was the main stash purge survivor! I’m liking all solids now though.
The daffodils are starting to bloom 😊🌼
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Yay on the daffodils! Limitations (less stash) can be a fun challenge for your creativity – love that you are using your solids (in wonderful ways!) :-)
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You’re so right. Thanks for your great advise to embrace the cheap fabric purge, I am so glad I did it. 🙂
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Very cheerful.
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Aww, thank you! 😊
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Abbie, what a sweet wall hanging. I think my front door needs one, too ;)
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Thank you so much! You are so sweet to say so! 😊
Please accept my apologies for the delay in my reply, your comment was in my blog limbo 😯
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None required, I have those issues myself ;)
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Impressed with your quilting, Abbie! And it adorns such a pretty spring quilt.
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