Morning Glory Designs: October 2018

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Globe Trotter Blog Hop

Welcome the the Globetrotter Blog Hop sponsored by Island Batik and fabric designer Tamarinis.

I had fun using the fabrics in this line to showcase the versatility and fun of this fabric line. I did two designs in EQ8.

This first one is called World Tour and I wanted the big flying geese to go around the intertwined Globe in the center of the quilt. And while we all may be in our own little corner of the world we are influenced by the rest of the world around us. The fabrics really helped to convey this theme.

I ended up not making this design but worked instead on my second design called In the Pines.

This design used the greens and golds in the fabric line, with a bit of the blue blobs (that is what I called them anyway). This was fun to make.

First I made all of these rotary cut and traditionally pieced flying geese blocks. I love working with blocks which are the reverse of each other. Confusing at times, but the look is so interesting.

Then I paper pieced the setting triangles. These are a simple palm block set on point. Super easy to do.

After getting all those flying geese blocks made I had fun putting rows together with sashing. This pix shows all the blocks on my design wall waiting for their row to be next.

The pine tree blocks in the border are a variation of the flying geese block.

It was a combination of paper piecing (geese) and traditional piecing (everything else). At the last minute I changed the border design to add a bit more interest and I really like the movement created by the directional trees.

Wonderful quilting by Brenda Weien, machine quilter, added the final touch to the quilt.

And here is the label on the back.

Here are a few more designs I did for this fabric line that didn't make the cut, but you might like seeing some more ways to use this versatile batik.