Good morning to all. I’m not sure where the time has flown to, but I’ve been steadily working on my quilt projects all along.
Here’s “Pistachio,” all finished. She is 50-inches square. She is very green, but so cheerful as spring is on the horizon here in coastal South Carolina. I made these blocks as leader/enders and was in no hurry to make enough to create a quilt, and that is how leader/enders can work out.
Bonnie Hunter designed the block some years back as part of her regular column for Quiltmaker magazine, a column which she no longer does. She called the block something like “X-Plus.” I tried to find links to this block at the magazine to give credit where credit is due, but the archive seems to be gone. Sometime last year Bonnie started making these blocks herself, off and on, and recently she, too, finished a quilt with this block and called it “Sunnyside.” (Bonnie Hunter’s blog is quiltville.blogspot.com and it is a treasure trove of free patterns.)
The very green backing is La Dolce Vita! by Stacey Peterson (Free Spirit, PWSTO 36 seeds). The white dots are little hearts.
The 6.5-inch block is just a 9-patch with a 3-inch center, and I pulled the centers from my bins of 3.5-inch squares and for the most part alternated light and dark centers in the quilt. The other pieces of the block were cut from my strip bins.
I quilted with a green thread, and the pantograph is “Sumptuous” by Hermione Agee.
And here’s a kind of blurry picture of Bonnie Hunter’s “Sunnyside.”
Bonnie’s post is titled “I’m Calling it Sunnyside!,” and she posted this entry on January 19, 2026.
Over the years Bonnie has made quilts from the blocks she created for Quiltmaker, but I have no idea of when her work on blocks reverts to her. In any case, this sunny yellow quilt is lovely.
Have a great weekend. I’m having a lot of fun sewing together the improv quilt I’ve been making for months and months. How fun is that!
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