Flying Happy Midweek Progress
Hi, I am just popping in to share what progress I have been making on my Flying Happy quilt this week.
Flying Happy 2 Patches
I am making the largest version of the Flying Happy quilt and it takes 36 blocks. I am using 18 different batiks in the design. These are the two patches that build the center blocks.
First batch of center blocks sewn
I did my best to get a good mix of the combination of batik colors. The pattern cutting instructions has extra of the 4.5 inch center squares. I thought I misplaced or lost the entire set of 36 squares that I set aside to use in my blocks. This was the morning after an unexpected visit by my grandsons and later I discovered that I had all ready sewn those squares in to my blocks. The extras are just extras to be used in another project or in the backing design.
More center blocks pieced
This is the rest of my center block color combinations. Now I need to finish piecing my 288 flying geese blocks. I am attempting to finger press my plain squares and stitching across my blocks by sight. So far so good as I have new light bulbs in my sewing machine. I now have a light in the center of the upper arm of the machine. Yeah..
Here is my quilting buddy, Smokey
Smokey showed up out of nowhere just as I pulled a pile of my squares out of the basket to start piecing my flying geese blocks. Apparently there is just enough room to manuever around the piles of fabric so he can get comfortable.
Mod Gears bound and finished
I finished my Mod Gears quilting and it is bound and finished. I will be sharing more photos tomorrow after I can get better full on photos taken. I made the Executive decision after Midnight to machine stitch my binding down. Crampy tired hands told me that hand sewing was not in the cards. I am expecting this quilt to be well loved and washed often so the binding needs to stay in place.
Smokey loves quilts even with hundreds of safety pins
Apparently Smokey does not care if a quilt has a million safety pins in it. It is a cozy place to escape the wrath of the Aussie puppy. Thankfully Katie did not try to pull the quilt and the cat away from the machine.
It is my turn to host the TGIFF (Thank God It’s Finished Friday) linky party tomorrow. I will be revealing Mod Gear’s finish, and a possible Flying Happy flimsy finish. It is my 50th birthday on Friday and I have passed my 100th blog post anniversary so I will be giving away some lovely fabrics to celebrate both milestones. I hope you will all come back tomorrow to check it out.
I am linking up this progress with various mid week linky parties. You can find the links on my linky page at top of the blog.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Wed. QIP: Mod Gears
Hi, I thought I would give a quick peek at the quilting I started today on my Mod Gears quilt top. Mod Gears is a pattern by Elizabeth Dackson (Don’t Call Me Betsey). I am making it as a baby quilt for a special little boy whose parents love Harley Davidson motorcycles.
Mod Gears
This version of the quilt is to be approximately 56.5 inches square. I chose to add a white border and then I rounded the corners with a dinner plate. With my added borders, my quilt top is approximately 62 inches square.
Close up of a Mod Gears block quilted
I am quilting inside each churn dash and cross section with coordinating thread colors.
Backside of the quilting
I am using white in the bobbin for simplicity and it does set of the overall quilting design nicely. I do not want additional colors taking away from my center name applique work.
Full back view of Mod Gears
My basted backing is smoother than this photo looks. Picking it up and flipping around causes wrinkles. I did get the top centered so the top and bottom last black rows will likely be cut off when finished. I will be making bias binding out of the orange colored grunge fabric used in the cross blocks on the front. I will be hand stitching to finish this binding which is the first I have done in ages. I will be using the Wonder Clips that I won from Scraptastic Tuesday.
I can see that the quilting will take a little longer on this quilt with working around all the churn dashes. It should be neat in the end.
I am linking up this post with WIP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.
Thank you for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Lions Roar! Quilt Finish
Hi, I am happy to be able to share today my finished Modernized Disappearing Nine Patch baby quilt that I am calling Lions Roar. It was made from a set of five fat quarters and three bright solid half yard cuts and white solid yardage. All of the fabrics in the quilt( except the 2 yards of brown mottled fabric used in the backing) came from my stash. The fat quarters had been purchased 5 years ago before we knew whether our grandson was going to be a girl or boy. I ended up using a different fabric theme for my grandson, so these fabrics sat in storage.
Lions Roar, a modernized disappearing nine patch quilt
I really like how this quilt turned out. I originally hoped for a larger quilt and had cut extra squares of fabric. I did not use all my pieced blocks because the left over ones did not have much of the main 5 focus prints in them, just solids. This is just shy of 60 inches square and that is a nice size quilt. Mom or Dad can cuddle under it with the baby or it can be used in the future for floor play or in a play pen.
Lions Roar
It unfortunately is not very sunny today. I think the quilt looks like it is in a jungle setting hung in amongst the hackberry tree’s changing leaves. Even the lawn is getting ready for fall and changing colors. I quilted in an all over diagonal grid in white and then went back in to add some accents of yellow, green and orange straight line stitching. I added bias cut striped binding that has all the colors of the quilt with a touch of blue.
Appliqued Backing to Lions Roar
This is my appliqued backing. I used Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 for my fusible. I did fold my white strip in half and had Thomas’ name centered on my length. I must not have had true center to the rest of the backing when I sew the strips together. If you are wondering about the lion’s head?? When I was almost finished with the quilt and had half of it bound, I noticed a series of tiny holes in my brown fabric. I did not see them when I purchased the fabric. I purchased 2 yards and cut my fabric down the center fold to get the pieces I used. When the dark fabric was folded on itself, you would not have seen them I guess. I did some quick thinking and come up with a lion’s head from some clip art online and made a quick layered applique. I cut the orange first and cut out the lion’s face and ears. I cut the face out of the gold and cut out his eyes. I layered small pieces of brown in behind for the eyes and ears. It was very easy to accomplish with the double sided Lite Steam -A Seam 2 fusible sheets. You peel off one layer and lay your fabric on it. You can trace your design on the other backing sheet. You cut out your design and can lay in position. It can be lifted again to reposition and then give a final press to make permanent. I stitched closely in matching colors around the cut openings of the applique to permanently adhere it.
Lions Head Applique
Front of Quilt
I was not sure how to handle stitching the applique on to the back of a finished quilt. I thought about using a monofilament thread in the bobbin but I could not find where mine was stashed. It is not something I have used very often. I chose to use white thread in the bobbin. Since there is so much white background and all the quilting criss crossing the quilt in white and the other colors, the lion head design will not be too noticeable. You only really see it because of zooming in the photo.
Lions Roar on the garden bench
I really like how this quilt turned out. 60 inches square is probably considered a small quilt for me. I really do not find use for much smaller. I guess I think all my effort is better shown in a larger format.
The back of Lions Roar quilt
I showed off the quilt before finished binding and making the applique. Thomas’ Mom loved it. I sent a finished photo of the applique to my best friend and she shared it with her niece. She thought it was so cool. I guess that is all that matters. I make quilts to be loved and used up and know that this one will be going to a loving home.
I am off to work on finish quilting another baby quilt. My Mod Gears that I made the top earlier this Spring. I have heard there maybe another baby on the way, so need to the first little guy his quilt.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I do appreciate all comments and do my best to get personal repliessent back. I am linking up this finish with various linky parties this week that can be found on my Linky Parties tab at the top of this page.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing 9- Patch Flimsy
Hi, I am happy to share the completed flimsy of my Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing Nine patch baby quilt. It is just shy of 60 inches square. This will be a gift for my best friend’s niece whose baby is due at the end of October.
Lions Roar! Modernized Disappearing Nine Patch
I am choosing the name Lions Roar! after one of the prints in the quilt. It has lion’s heads and says Lions Roar! all over the fabric. Or I could call it Lions, Tigers, Crocodiles Oh My!, there are no bears on the other printed fabric but there are crocodiles. I did cut some additional bright solid squares and white background squares in hopes of making a bit larger quilt. I made 39 nine patches and they cut down into 156 quarters. I only used 81 quarter blocks for this top as it used all of the main focus prints. This top is made using Kristy Daum’s tutorial for the modernized disappearing nine patch. Her initial layout in her tutorial used 36 squares and I just continued the pattern on with in each row across and started the pattern over again with row 7 to get my 9 rows of 9 blocks.
Lions Roar!
I caught my daughter’s sinus head cold this week, and just lost steam yesterday. The baby shower is today, but I hope to get the quilt completed yet today and will give to the family tomorrow. I am thinking that I will quilt diagonally across the blocks in white, and then add some accents of orange, green and brown in straight line stitching ??? (I have those 75 extra unneeded blocks that I can practice on as a sample first. ) Maybe a plain white all over grid quilting?? It all depends on things go while quilting on cold medicine.
Baby’s Name to Applique on Backing
I am going to applique the baby’s name on to the backing of the quilt. I have 4 sheets of Lite Steam – A- Seam 2 pressed to black solid fabric ready to have the letters traced and cut out from.
Quilt Backing Layout with binding
I am going to be piecing a striped background with a white center with the baby’s name appliqued in black. This row will be between two rows of green multi dot print fabric and then a row on each side of that of chocolate brown mottled blender print fabric. I will be making a striped bias binding. I had the green multi dot print in my stash, and also the left over striped bias binding fabric. I used the striped binding on another brown, green and orange baby quilt. It’s great to be able to shop for almost all of the fabric from my stash. I only purchased the 2 yards of brown mottled.
I hope that everyone has a great weekend. I will be linking my flimsy finish with Crazy Mom’s Quilts and Can I get a Whoop Whoop?
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Wednesday WIPs: 3 Quilts
Hi, Hope everyone is having a great week. I discovered I have a baby shower to attend this weekend so I am hurrying to make a quilt as a gift. I also have cut out fabrics for a blue version of my Blue Island Tribal with the hibiscus flower appliques that I worked up a quilt design last week using the PhotoScape software program. While I am trying to work on these two projects, I am hoping to be able to sew more blocks for my Flying Happy batik quilt.
Lions Roar Modernized Disappearing 9 Patch layout
I am working on another version of Kristy Daum’s Modernized Disappearing 9 Patch quilt tutorial. I am making a baby quilt from a set of 5 fat quarters that I have had in my stash for 5 years and three bright solids with a white background.
Fabric Squares cut for Modernized Disappearing 9 Patch
These are my cut fabrics that I am working with. I cut 12 – 5 inch squares from each of the 5 printed fat quarters, and 16 – 5 inch squares from the three bright solids. I had a 2 yard cut of each of the bright solids in my stash. I had various left over cut strips of the white solid and managed to cut 80 – 5 inch squares. Since you use 5 white or background colored squares in each of your nine patch configurations, this should produce 16 nine patches. I have 10 nine patches made and cut into fourths so far.
Nine Patches
This shows 8 of the 10 nine patches that I have made so far. I am not sure how large my quilt is going to be yet. I am flying by the seat of my pants. I have made the tutorial before but with 4 inch squares and used it on the back of my Puppy Stars quilt. I have been thinking of possibly making a larger than standard baby size quilt that Mom or Dad can snuggle with the baby in and if there are extra squares also make a small car seat size baby quilt. I do want to incorporate the baby’s name “Thomas Owen” into the back of the quilt and could applique a large letter “T” in a circle on the smaller quilt. This all depends on how many blocks I get made. When they are cut into their fourths, mine are measuring approximately 7 inches square. Using those numbers, 16 nine patches would create 64 quarter blocks and that would make an approximate 52 inch square quilt. I would like larger than that, but if that is all that I can create with my fabrics that is fine. I am just going to make nine patches til I run out of my main fabrics. I can always cut more white squares. Whatever I do needs to be finished by Saturday afternoon.
Blue Island Tribal Hibiscus applique blocks
I have cut out fabric to make a quilt with 20 blocks from my Blue Island Tribal quilt block design. I only have a portion of the half square triangles created. I have a stack of each hsts that need to be squared up. I still really dislike that process but it is necessary to have good fitting squares to piece with. I am using a bright blue solid instead of the bright blue mottled blender fabric I used in my demo block. I was not able to find more of that same fabric. I should have enough of the pink, yellow and green to make my 20 hibiscus flower appliques.
This is the version of the Blue Island Tribal quilt that I have the fabrics cut out for.
Flying Happy
I am hoping to find a way to work in making more of the Flying Happy quilt blocks. I have been using scrap material for leaders and enders when piecing my blocks this week. I just need to figure out how I want to layout my blocks and just sort the squares out so I can feed a few in at a time between piecing other blocks. I found the nice plastic basket at the Dollar Tree. It works nicely for laying out quilt projects in. I need to go back and buy more baskets. I only have two at the moment. The other basket has pieces for the Single Wedding Ring Block quilt, black and turquoise plus blocks for backing of 39 Shades of Charming quilt all in stacks in the one basket, separated by instruction sheets. I certainly would not want to dump over either basket.
Well, it looks like I have a lot of sewing to do this week. I hope to be back on Friday with a Friday Finish of the disappearing nine patch baby quilt.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I am linking up with WIP Wednesday and Let’s Bee Social.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
More PhotoScape Quilt Ideas using my Blue Island Tribal blocks
Hi, I am still playing with PhotoScape today. My friend Jan O over at The Colorful Fabriholic suggested making a plain white block photo to make alternate block designs. This is a great idea and I really like how the designs work up. I also laid out my floral appliqued block with the full blue version block folded in half and snapped a new photo to show what a new quilt block with look like with the appliqued hibiscus center. It was kind of tricky to get the photo cropped correctly for this program’s useage so the design is not as clean as others but you do get the idea of what it can look like.
I have 20 blocks made up for this version. These blocks would be approximately 12 by 18 inches when finished so that would make an approximate 72 by 60 inch quilt???
Blue Island Tribal PhotoScape concept with alternate blocks
Here is my original Blue Island Tribal block set with alternate plain white blocks in a 25 block set. This should make a 60 inch square quilt. I really like this one.
Blue Version of Blue Island Tribal with alternate blocks
And here is the all blue version of my Blue Island Tribal block with alternating white squares in the same 25 block set. This would make approximately a 60 inch square quilt.
Be sure to check out PhotoScape as it is a free program. It seems to be pretty straight forward. It pulls up the photos on your computer and you can edit them and resize them all from same program. The Combine function button is how I am making my quilt layouts as described in Joy’s tutorial.
Be sure to check out my previous post on pattern options if you missed it.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Playing with PhotoScape
Hi, Today I would like to share some news about a neat little program I came across today. It is called PhotoScape and it is a free photo editing software program that you can download. I saw a tutorial about it linked on Saturday’s Show Off Saturday over at Sew Can She. Joy who blogs over at Joy’s Jots,Shots & Whatnots did a tutorial on how to use PhotoScape to test a Quilt block design. Since I do not have Photoshop or an ElectricQuilt software program, I thought this was an interesting concept. I decided to download the program and in just a couple minutes after following Joy’s tutorial I had photos made of what entire quilts would like using the quilt block I designed for the Fabri-Quilt New Block Blog Hop. I wish I would have known about this a couple weeks ago.
My Blue Island Tribal Block
I discovered when playing with the program that it is best if you use a straight overhead view of your photo as if it is angled in anyway it can be hard to crop the photo properly. The tutorial has you crop your design at what should be the 1/4 inch seam so that the pieces mesh together like they should in an actual quilt.
Blue Island Tribal Quilt (30 blocks) approx. 60 by 72 inches
I am really excited to see all the blocks together. It would make a really neat quilt. This is 30- 12 inch blocks that would make an approximate 60 by 72 inch quilt. I have to reassess what I have left of my solid colors to see if I can make this in the near future, or I will certainly be purchasing more solids in the future to make a similar quilt.
My test block for Blue version of Blue Island Tribal
This is my test block of Blue Island Tribal using fabrics from my stash.
Blue-Blue Island Tribal quilt concept
This is what 30 of the blue blocks look like in a quilt. This too makes a striking a quilt. I more than likely have material for this style of quilt in my stash.
Appliqued Hibiscus Flower version of Blue Island Tribal
Here is the last block that I made as a possible verison of my Blue Island Tribal design.
Appliqued Hibiscus-Blue Island Tribal
This is what 30 of the appliqued hibiscus flower blocks looks like in a quilt top. I tried to flip my block photo with the program and you can change the direction of it, but it does not end up looking right. I tried mirroring the block but the seams did not match up in the photos. You may be able to work around that but I do not know yet. This is just my first attempt with the software. I am wondering how this design would look with every other row with the tribal triangles block flipped the opposite direction and ending up with a row of tribal triangles blocks on the right outside row as well???
I have been working on calculating how much fabric is needed to make a decent size quilt throw from my block designs. I am looking to be able to share a pattern in the near future.
Thanks for stopping by my blog. I appreciate all comments. I will be linking up this post with various weekly linky parties that you can find links for on my Linky Party page at the top of this blog.
Update: Also check out my next post for more pattern options.
Hope you are having a great week.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Flying Happy Quilt in Batiks WIP
Hi, I would like to share what I am working on in my sewing room this week. I am cutting out fabric for a new quilt. The quilt is called Flying Happy and it is a design that is part of Positive Trio by Melissa Eubanks of My Fabric Relish. I loved all three of the quilt designs in the Positive Trio quilt pattern so much that I purchased the pattern the first day that Melissa released it back in May. Flying Happy is my favorite so I decided to play with that one first.
Flying Happy (first block)
This is my first block that I have pieced. There are four sizes of quilts that you can make (mini, baby, throw and large throw) and I am making the large throw. This is a fat quarter friendly pattern.
My Fabric Pull, all fat quarters
I collected over a dozen new batik fat quarters and added extras I had left from my Catawampus quilt top.
Flying Happy
This is a chart from the pattern showing what the quilt will look like. I needed 18 fat quarters. Two or more of them were under the needed 18 inch width so I am adding a few extra squares from my stash to get the needed pieces. Melissa’s instructions have ample room and what would be scraps I am able to cut carefully and get a few extra pieces.
All my cut squares and rectangles
Here all my lovely batiks cut into the necessary pieces. I am choosing to use cream solid as my background. It would look lovely in gray or black, but cream is what I had. It took a bit to cut the well over 500 squares needed for the flying geese background. I have everything cut and placed in a basket hoping to not lose a precious single square to Miss Katie, who loves to eat fabric.
This week I finished up the September instructions for the Midnight Mystery quilt along by Meadow Mist Designs. We were to create square in a square blocks. They were fun to make and they went together well with almost nothing to trim off to square up the blocks.
Midnight Mystery quilt along September blocks
I really like my blue star fabric with the gray. Adding in the red solid background should make an interesting quilt.
Today is my Father inlaw Lee’s birthday. He is 78 and we think he is one of the best. This is one of 3 (I think) Speeder cars that he and Uncle Max own. This one is a two seater with open doors, and I know they have a four seater with closed doors. They like to ride the rails on what are usually abandoned railways or there are special events that railroads let the speeder car groups use their running rail lines when no trains are in the area. My husband has gone a few rides but I have not managed to get to ride yet.
I hope that everyone has a great weekend. We are excited that we get to spend time with some good friends out of town. They moved across the state last year at this time, and we only managed to see them once back in February, so it will be great to see them. They are the couple who are the big Minnesota Vikings fans who received the Boxed In and Out quilt in Vikings colors. It will be cool to see the quilt again being used in it’s natural habitat. Haha
Thanks for stopping by and reading my blog. I do greatly appreciate all comments.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
R.I.P. Buddy and Playing with Blocks
Hi, It has been a sad week at our house. Our adopted Maine Coon TomCat Buddy passed away on Wednesday. Buddy went missing the end of last week. He had been off feed and would not come back in the house like he usually did. When he went missing for a few days, we just assumed the worse. Buddy showed up late Tuesday night when I was out walking Katie for the last time before bed. He was laying by the back door and the outside faucet where we have a water dish (which is also a toad swimming pool) for the dogs and cats. We discovered he was very dehydrated and drank lots and lots of water when we got him in the house. He made it through the night but in the morning on Wednesday, his breathing got shallower and he ended up having a seizure/puking and passed away.
Buddy or that is what we chose to call him showed up at our house two years ago during the great Polar Vortex. He showed up on our front porch and kept meowing and would not leave. He was so friendly and let my husband pick him up right away. This never happens with any of our previous owned cats. We discovered he had his front paws declawed and was neutered. He was obviously taken care of at one time as he was huge, having not missed too many meals. Buddy major problem was that his ears were both frostbit and frozen off in different stages. His tail appeared to maybe broken but it also ended up being frozen too and he lost a couple inches of it weeks later.
This is the very first photo of Buddy taken with my phone through the porch door. I sent the photo to my husband and friend to show what showed up on the porch. The ear on the left side of the photo is the one that had a chunk fall off while he had been sleeping in bed with me. Buddy had been laying on my husband’s pillow and he always shook his head at times and this time apparently the loose dead piece of his ear flew off and ended up on the bed. I did not know this til I went around to make the bed. I kind of freaked when I figured out what it was. It was disgusting. lol Poor Buddy…nobody knows what happened to the end of his tail. It just was gone one day. I was always worried about finding it in my grandson’s toy box. He would find the weirdest things to put in his toy tractor wagons to haul.
Buddy was the most loving cat we ever owned. He was the most appreciative. He did eat like there was no tomorrow at times, which our first Tomcat Smokey did not care for. Buddy did not really meow out loud. Alot of times, if you looked at him you could tell he was meowing or talking but it was very soft. Smokey is the very vocal one of the two.
Buddy loved quilts and all fabric items. He especially loved our bed. No matter how hard you would try to keep him off. He would always end up there. There were many times he woke me up with a touch of his paw and I would open my eyes and he would be laying with his head on the other pillow with his paw reaching out to touch me. Buddy could have done his own “Hey, Girl” memes.
We all so wish that Buddy could have talked and told us where he came from but the most of all where did he go when he disappeared last week. We all looked for him. After he showed up here and became a mostly indoor cat, he did not appear to leave the main yards of our acreage.
Buddy will be greatly missed. We are glad we had two years with him. We are certain he would have froze to death if we did not allow him to come in that one cold day.
I did play with some fabric this week. My main project this week was finishing my Fabri-Quilt New Block block called Blue Island Tribal. My block has been sent off to be added to the other 60 some blocks that were made for the blog hop and will be made into quilts for charity.
I played around with the graph paper to draw up what the secondary design might be when putting multiple Blue Island Tribal blocks together. I reversed the colors for two different blocks and added in one more color to the corner stones so that it would create a four patch. I had thought about adding sashing at one time just from the idea that the corner stones would make a nine patch.
Blue Island Tribal block quilt mockup
I think it could make a rather interesting quilt as shown. Here are the two test blocks that I made with the all blue concept and the all blue block split in half with a hibiscus flower applique. I just could not figure out how to add the flower over the entire block. It was only an idea to tie in the Blue Island Tribe band name with the family’s love of Maui. I am going to keep my hibiscus flower paper pieces to draw up a possible reverse applique or quilting design for future use.
Blue Island Tribal test block concepts
Blue Island Tribal block concept closeup
The half block looks similar to a Delectable Mountains block.
It is the first week of September and there is new instructions released on the Midnight Mystery Quilt along by Meadow Mist Designs. We were to make Square in a Square blocks to go with the flying geese blocks we made in August.
Midnight Mystery Quiltalong September Square in a Square blocks
I have about half of them pieced and then I need to square up the entire batch. The instructions made them easy to create and there ends up being hardly anything that is needed to be trimmed off to square them up to size.
I hope that everyone who reads this from the US enjoys their holiday weekends and has a safe Labor Day holiday. We plan to spend ours with some friends and family that we have not seen much this summer.
Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Happy Sewing,
Shelley
Fabri-Quilt New Block Blog Hop: Blue Island Tribal Block Tutorial
BLUE ISLAND TRIBAL
This is what my completed block looks like. Below you will find the tutorial on how to create it and also another possible coloring option.
Block Concept Old School (Graph Paper and Colored Pencils)
This is my concept drawing for my 12.5 inch block. I went the old school route of getting out the graph paper and colored pencils and enlarging to regular paper so the design was easier to read. Someday I would love to have one of the Electric Quilt programs.
Blue Island Tribal Block Fabric Cutting Chart
I had a fat eighth ( 9 by 21 inches) of white, lapis blue, aqua, turquoise, chartreuse and coral fabrics.
Fabric Cutting Instructions:
From the White fabric:
Cut (8) 2.5 inch squares and (6) 3 inch squares
From the Lapis Blue fabric:
Cut (4) 2.5 inch squares and (4) 3 inch squares
From the Turquoise fabric:
Cut (2) 3 inch squares
From the Chartreuse fabric:
Cut (2) 2.5 inch squares and (2) 3 inch squares
From the Aqua fabric:
Cut (2) 2.5 inch squares and (2) 3 inch squares
From the Coral fabric:
Cut (4) 2.5 inch squares
Block Piecing Instructions
We are going to create half square triangles from the 3 inch squares and press them open and trim to the finish size of 2.5 inches.
How to create HST
Half Square Triangles Number Chart
We will be creating (8) lapis and white half square triangles, (2) aqua and white hsts, (2) chartreuse and white hsts, (2) chartreuse and turquoise hsts and (2) aqua and turquoise half square triangles.
Blue Island Tribal block layout
This is how we will be laying out our newly created half square triangles and the 2.5 inch squares.
Row 1
We will be combining these squares to make row 1.
Row 2
We will be combining these blocks to create row 2.
Row 3
We will combine these blocks to make row 3.
Row 4
We will combine these blocks to make row 4.
Row 5
We will combine these blocks to make row 5.
Row 6
We are combining these blocks to create row 6 which is our final row.
You will assemble the rows in order. I pressed my seams open and it helped matching my points easier. (which they all did for once.)
Finished Block: Blue Island Tribal
When designing this block, I drew up another color option. One just using the blues in the fabric bundle. I did a test block with fabric from my stash in blues that I had. This is the block that I tested my directions on.
(ALL BLUE) Blue Island Tribal
All Blue version of Blue Island Tribal test block
Creating my own block was a new concept for me. I have drawn out designs that I could not find an actual pattern for with some success. I have had a lot on my plate this past month, so I struggled to come up with a concept. Once I came up with the name, it was a bit easier for me to draw up a design. I all ready have plans to work up a full quilt with this block. I am thinking sashing the blocks. I drew up a Hibiscus flower applique that I thought of adding to my block. I could not make it work out in my size needed, but I kept my applique pattern and am thinking of designing a special back for the quilt for our friends’ new baby.
I would like to thank the leaders of our New Blogger’s Blog Hop group for putting together this new block creating hop. All of the 62 new blocks from the tutorials created for the Fabri-Quilt New Block Blog Hope will be sewn into quilts that will be donated to charity. Thank you to Fabri-Quilt for donating the fabric and Inspired by Fabric for help hosting this event.
Please be sure to check out all of today’s tutorials.
Here’s today’s line-up–visit them all for block inspiration!
Host – Cheryl @Meadow Mist Designs
Josi @Avocado Quilts
Stephanie @Quilt’n Party
Cristy @Love You Sew
Sarah @Sarah Goer Quilts
Shelly @The Carpenter’s Daughter Who Quilts
Jayne @Twiggy & Opal
Sharla @Thistle Thicket Studio
Adrian @Making It – Family Food Quilts Crafts
Julie @Pink Doxies
Sarah @123 Quilt
Jane @Jolly and Delilah Quilts
Carrie @The Zen Quilter
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