Lisa the Unicorn

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When  you have a house full of girls, unicorns are unavoidable. Especially this year. I don’t know what it is, but they are EVERY WHERE. Including in my sewing room.

My sweet 7 year old and 4 year old are obsessed. When they saw me scrolling through recent additions to fabric sites, and unicorns flashed by on the screen, there was no way they weren’t going to make sure that came in the mail. So, we had unicorn fabric in hand, what the heck to do with it. I mean , obviously, a quilt. But, which one?

Then, as if we had timed it, Elizabeth Hartman released her Lisa the Unicorn pattern and my path was all set for me.

If you’re familiar with her patterns, you know they’re incredibly well-written and easy to follow. So is this one. The one hurdle I did struggle with, was just HOW MANY PIECES there were. If you use Alphabitties, forget it. You’ll need two packs. I stuck with my trusty post-it notes and started prepping fabric.

One thing about Molly, she has a photographic memory (no joke – try playing a memory game with her), and she loves rainbows and color sequences. So, she insisted the fabrics for the manes be in proper rainbow order. Since I don’t know what day of the week it is, I sure as *&%$ don’t know what the order is when I’m cutting out as many pieces as this pattern requires. But, I did my best and Molly helped me arrange them. I think we did ok. My test block will be a giant pillow for our 4 year old, and she’s tickled to have helped sew some of it.

The top is pieced, basted, and I’ve started quilting it, but it’s been one of the hottest summers on record here, and since I quilt everything at home on my domestic machine, draping a queen sized quilt back with flannel isn’t on the top of my to do list when the humidex is at almost 40C. We’ll get there, just not for another few weeks.