232. Lemon Crush, aka Colorbox 2.0

In 2011, I made blocks for a quilt called Colorbox. It was donated to MCC for the annual quilt auction, and sold for $5900! 

At the same time, Rachel Hauser of Stitched in Color was doing a sewalong called Bottled Windows. She was making "ticker tape" blocks, an idea originated by Amanda Jean Nyberg of Crazy Mom Quilts, where small pieces of fabric were sewed to a base. I cut scraps that had been used in the Colorbox quilt, using as many selvages as I could, made the blocks and laid them out in the same color orientation as the original Colorbox quilt.

I even have an autographed selvage by Jessica Jones of How About Orange, an extremely popular blogger during that time period.

The blocks had been sewn to a piece of batting and it took me years before I looked online and found out that I just needed to sew the blocks together like any other blocks, even though they had been sewn to batting. I finally laid them all out and loved how everything looked. In retrospect, I would have changed the orientation of the blocks, because the quilt is wider than longer. But I wanted to keep the same color order as the original Colorbox, and because of the selvages there was no other way to set them.

The backing is a favorite by Alexander Henry called Lemon Crush, thus the name of the quilt.

Having a quilt with the same fabrics as my most successful charity auction makes this one very special to me. 

Quilt: Lemon Crush

Pieced by: Cindy Wiens

Completed: 2022

Size: 80" x 64"

Quilted by: Darby Myers