Timeless Traditions Blog Hop

This month the Island Batik collection that each ambassador received used them to create a quilt but the twist was to create it using some (or all) of the traditional blocks below.

*Four Patch Quilt Block

*Nine Patch Quilt Block

*Half Square Triangle Block

*Quarter Square Triangle Block

*Friendship Star Block

*Flying Geese Quilt Block

*Variable Star Quilt Block

*Ohio Star Quilt Block

*Nine Patch Chain Quilt Block

*Pinwheel Mosaic Quilt Block

The collection I received to create my quilt with is the Paisley Parade. This collection is made with red, white, blue and black accents. Each piece of fabric has a paisley or curves and remind me of bandanas or country themed prints.

Now, looking at traditional quilt blocks and this fabric, all I see is clearly celebration fabric. I thought about doing some firework themed quilt, but the blocks are harder to set to make that work. So, I eventually added all the fabrics and blocks to my EQ8 program and just started designing several different quilts.

At first, I went with just all the blocks at the same size, and some sashing in between, but then I thought no; lets really make this challenging and make the blocks different sizes. I also wanted to do some smaller piecing, so had an idea for that as well.

This is what I came up with in EQ8.

When I was working with all the blocks, I ended up wanting to add them all. So, all 10 of them can be found in my quilt.

Are you ready?

Have you found them all yet?

The Four Patch

and the Nine Patch are all over the quilt.

I even made the Nine Patch super small!

The Half Square Triangle blocks are these two, but can you find them in the finished quilt?

The Quarter Square Triangles were great blocks to use to connect the other larger blocks which means I actually used several of them.

The Friendship Star Quilt Block was actually my least favorite quilt block as it was the hardest to find a spot for it to go, but eventually I found a spot and it looks good.

The Flying Geese Quilt Blocks were easy to add to the quilt, as I love flying geese.

I decided to make one red and one blue, to show off both of the bold colorful prints.

Variable Star Quilt Block, love this one:

The Ohio Star Quilt Block is another block I have enjoyed using before and it went well with this quilt as well:

The Nine Patch Chain Quilt Block, I mean if you can't find this one, then you are probably not looking at the quilt, im joking.

The last block, the Pinwheel Mosaic Quilt Block was another easy to add block:

Thats all the blocks, and to combine them together and connect them as one I used the Fondant batik, as its one of my favorite fabrics and does a great job pulling the collection together.

I always love using my Oliso iron to help press these batiks and blocks nice and flat.

Once all the blocks were made, I began to make rows of the quilt top and then put those together.

The longest process was sewing the nine patch, nine patch chain and four patch blocks.

Eventually I got the rows put together.

I then used up scraps of the fabrics for the back of the quilt. I wanted to also use the Hobbs Silk Blend batting, as I am yet to use it, as I thought this quilt would be perfect for it.

The quilt was then spray basted together:

The end was finally in sight. Time to use my Aurifil thread to quilt this one up.

I used a simple white just to do the grid quilting and then I used Blue 2725 and Red 2250 to add some free motion quilting in some areas. I absolutely loved how this came together.

A little look at the free motion quilting.

I used the white fabric with the light blue paisleys on it, as the binding, which I finished by hand and the quilt was done. It ended up around 50 x 50 which is a perfect lap quilt.

Before we look at the finished quilt, be sure to head on over to the Lumin Fabrics Blog and enter to win a giveaway!

Then follow along with all the other ambassadors during the blog hop:

Brenda Alburl- https://songbirddesigns.blog

Renee Atkinson- https://wordpress.com/posts/pinktulipquilting.studio

Susan Deshensky- www.ladybluequilts.com/blog

Tina Dillard- https://quiltingaffection.blogspot.com/

Brittany Fisher- Www.bobbinwithbrittany.com

Kimberly Flannagan- https://www.kimberlysquilts.com/blog

Preeti Harris- https://sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com

Mania Hatziioannidi- www.maniaforquilts.com

Kim Jamieson-Hirst- https://www.chatterboxquilts.com/blog

Connie Kauffman- Kauffmandesigns.blogspot.com

Connie Kresin Campbell- https://conniekresin.com/

Emily Leachman- https://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/

Denise Looney- https://quiltery.com

Leah Malasky- www.quilteddelights.com

Susan Michaels-https://dragonflyfiberart.blogspot.com/

Lisa Pickering- https://lisasquiltingpassion.blog/

Gail Sheppard- https://quiltinggail.com/

Carol Stanek- stitchwithcolor.blogspot.com

Solomae Stoycoff- https://cuddlecatquiltworks.com/blogs/island-batik-ambassador-blog

Jennifer Thomas- https://curlicuecreations.com

Suzy Webster- www.websterquilt.com

Now lets look at the final quilt:

and thats a wrap on this quilt!

Thank you to Lumin Fabrics, Oliso, Hobbs and Aurifil.

Come back and check out whatever I make next!

Happy Sewing!