Eat Your Carrots!

Yes, indeed! I made my 3 daughters eat their veggies every night. Wish I hadn't been such a tyrant, but hey - they're healthy and now eat most vegetables without finger wagging.

Do you remember my Carrot blocks from a few years ago? I made them using some fat quarters of Bedrock (by Windham Fabrics). Aren't they sweet?

Five Carrot Blocks

I selected 3 fabrics of Bedrock for my simple block. Of course there's a real orangey - orange! I decided to make a version of my Eat Your Carrots pattern.

Fabrics selected for my Carrot blocks

I printed my carrot pattern (for foundation piecing) five times. It will finish to 6".

I pulled a Summer sky blue print and used that for my setting triangles. I selected a second cream for the border strips. And here is my quilt center. What do you think?

Eat Your Carrots, 25-1/2"x 25-1/2"

I quilted it a few weeks ago and then pulled out the only bunny I still have here in Grandma's house. She is actually mine, given to me by my sweet husband about 20 years ago. Added a few carrots and a tiny fork. What can I say? Yes, there are two fabrics for the borders. It's all I had. They are from an older Windham Collection called Gardening.

Eat Your Carrots, 31" x 31"

Let me show you the back. It's pieced using mostly fabrics from that Gardening collection. Carrots, carrots everywhere!

Back of quilt. Lotsa carrots!

You can find this 6 page Eat Your Carrots pattern in my Etsy store. It has clear directions and illustrations and even patch cutting templates for that carrot shape so you don't waste a lot of fabric trying to make things fit. I think Bugs Bunny would be very happy to have this hanging in his house, don't you think?