These two fabrics from the “Winter Gnomes” line by Striped Pear Studio for Windham Fabrics just had to go into my online shopping cart a few months ago. I had no idea what I was going to do with them, but they made me giggle. That was justification enough!

Then a few weeks ago, I saw this gnome fabric from Timeless Treasures, “Gnome Worry, Be Happy.” While from a different fabric company, the colors in the three fabrics are all similar and work well together. This fabric suddenly bumped a gnome quilt up to the top of my stack of projects!

So I had fabrics with gnome winter clothes and another with gnomes doing spring planting. Clearly they had washed their woolies, hung them on the line and started to work waking up the garden!

I actually purchased the “Gnome Worry, Be Happy” fabric for the back of the quilt. But those gnomes, you just never know what mischief they might be up to.

Here’s the quilt I designed in Electric Quilt 8. It is the classic Economy Block (a square in a square) and a tree block. I took the “Big and Little Trees” block from the EQ8 block library and modified it, removing the smaller of the trees and replacing it with two narrow strip patches.

“Gnomes Spring Laundry Day” quilt design

Now that I have a plan and a quilt pattern, I need to get busy!