Good grief, when will Spring finally get here?  I’m still wearing my fleece jacket at work and bundling up the kids for school in the morning.

One bright spot of Spring is a window valance that I completed last week.  Well … completed … just means that I have the top done.  I need to actually QUILT it …  Picky, picky.

I was inspired by a post from Sherri McConnell of A Quilting Life (click here to see it).  She had taken the pattern by Fig Tree Quilts called Canned Pears (you can buy it here!) and made a wall hanging.  I looked at it and thought that it would also play well as a window valance in our kitchen – but I liked the look of the offset pears in the main pattern.

Here is my window valance outside on a community bench:

And a little closer:

I scaled down the pattern size about a third to make it fit 5 pears with a mini-charm border.  The whole thing ended up around 40″ x 18″ (roughly).

All of it was made with the Mirabelle collection by Fig Tree, with just a few squares of Honeysweet in the top border row.

Here is my old window covering. Very, very sad. It is a just a twin sheet we had that was folded and clipped up to a cafe rod.

 

AFTER:  New, custom Fig Tree Window!

 

LIGHT ON

Another LIGHT ON:

 

LIGHT OFF:

 

The lighting in my kitchen is really bad for this – so just take my word for it that the colors are bright, springy and wonderful!

I already have the backing, just need to layer and quilt.  This is my first project for the home that isn’t a standard quilt.  I’m so glad I took a chance!

Thanks for visiting!  See you soon!

Jennifer