It's now officially summer, and that means the sunflowers are in bloom! My husband Josh loves sunflowers, particularly the massive, six-feet tall variety.

Speaking of sunflowers, Sandi from our Facebook group shared her beautiful sunflower quilt, pictured at right.

Sandi made this quick flower quilt using a fun and easy technique detailed in the book No Sewing Until You Quilt It. The method is a turned edge applique technique created by my friend Ann Holmes that allows you to easily build complicated quilts over a layer of French Fuse interfacing.

I've been machine quilting up a storm this week because I have four quilts to finish in less that two weeks. These beautiful projects are all designed for my new line of fabric with Island Batik.

I decided to design a variety of quilt sizes - one wall hanging, one large throw, one queen sized quilt, and one small throw that could also be a baby quilt. This new set of patterns will become available in November this year.

Of course I love adding as much texture as I can with the quilting design! When I shared this photo on Facebook, a quilter instantly commented that she knew it was mine without reading the description.

It's funny how subtle things combine together to become your signature style after awhile. For me it's lots of filler designs stitched in contrasting thread with relatively small stitches. This is just the way I love to quilt!

Do you have a particular style of quilting? The best way to develop your own style is to quilt lots of quilts, look at lots of quilts, and always be asking yourself what you love to see and stitch. The more you do what you love, the better your quilting will reflect you.

Let's go quilt!

Leah Day