Citronickle Canyon

I’m having a good string of Finally Finishes since the beginning of June and my Citronickle Canyon Quilt is the tenth one in seven weeks. So far this year, it’s my twentieth Finally Finish and my sweet sixteen UFO-I guess almost weekly travels to the Grandparent House helps me to stay on task. The Citronickle Canyon was an UFO from last year and finished in March around the start of the lockdowns. I thought I share the idea behind this quilt and the influences of good quilt friend Wendy/Pieceful Thoughts.

If you read any of my past posts, you will remember that Citronickle is the name Wendy came up for the yellow green color which is a combination of Kona’s Pickle, a beloved color, and my liking to call any yellow green Citron. You can see in the quilt that Citronickle makes an appearance. The Canyon portion of the name is from Violet Craft’s Palm Canyon fabric line which Wendy and I both received a mini roll of 20 strips in a Fat Quarter Shop Sew Sampler Box. I can’t recall the conversation which transpired between us that prompted her to send me the remaining strips she had left after making a lovely bag with her roll of Palm Canyon. It wouldn’t surprise me if I had mentioned that I very rarely use any of the fabrics included in the Sew Sampler Boxes which I’ve been receiving these since the beginning of this wonderful program and, yes, I have a wonderful collection. In order to make this quilt I needed to buy some fat quarters and yardage of the focal print of Palm Canyon plus I added some Michelle d’Amore Contempo prints which I purchased during a Colorado vacation in 2018 along with (not shown) a Art Gallery print and a gray and white Pick up Sticks print which I purchased after seeing this in some of Wendy’s quilts.

The pattern is a variation of my Staggered Strips and Squares Quilt Pattern and the Big Cat Crossing Quilt  shows larger patches of a focal print and vertical rail blocks used in this quilt.

The Citronickle Quilt is made up of 8”x16” patches of the focal print, 8” rail blocks set vertically and various sizes of strips sets made of 2.5” strips and 4”x8” rectangles. One difference with the strips is that some of them were sewn with diagonal seams to complement some of the angular prints.

Here’s a close-up showing the focal print which shows the wind turbines with the rail blocks and strip sets and you can see the all of the fabrics I mentioned above. I like to mention I really love the focal print and it was hard for me to cut which is why these patches were 8” x 16”.

Upon my return home last week from the Grandparent House and with a few days in between before we left again, Citronickle Canyon was quilted with diagonal straight line quilting 1” apart and some spots a little wonky which I thought would work  since this quilt seem to have an angular look. I quilted it with a 50wt Silver Aurifil thread and the binding is the gray and white Pick up Stick print dutifully saved in the binding drawer. The quilt measures 56”x72”. I forgot to take a photo of the backing which you can see on the left side of the fabric photo above. I mentioned this print in my June Unexpectations Post as it was the backing used for the Zingy Zebra baby quilt.

Here’s another photo of the Citronickle Canyon hanging around the fence at the Grandparent House. It’s too bad there are no canyons around.

Last of all, I want to mention that I’ve finally switched to Follow.it after reading so many posts from other bloggers who recommended this as a way to advise followers when I publish a blog post. At first I was hesitant and stubborn about making the switch but I really like this site not only for announcing new posts from me but also for reading other posts from my blog buddies, the news and other points of interests. I’m still learning how to navigate this site but so far no problems and I can’t say enough about their customer service. It’s so nice to communicate with a person in real time and am so thankful they converted my subscriber list. It was so easy and I am amazed that I was able to do this. Thanks Suz, Janine, Nancy and Sandra for writing such great posts about this new service and helping the poster child for being technically challenged on Blogging to finally go with the flow.

Last night after returning from the Grandparent House and enjoying the start of a six-day hiatus from the darling granddaughter and before I started quilting another 2020 UFO, I thought I “treat” myself by playing with the Alison Glass fabrics I been accumulating/purchasing lately. I decided that I am going to make another Ernie Express Quilt but only using two fabrics instead of four fabrics in each block. This is the start of something fun and will be doing a “somewhat” tutorial on the making of these blocks. They do sew fast or as I am saying during the month of July “freakishly fast.”

If you’re looking for inspiration or need something to get your sewjo sewing, check out to see what Wendy is doing. You might see some Citronickle.

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