Monday, February 20, 2012

DESIGN WALL MONDAY

First, another small finish.  I've been having fun playing with batik fabric lately.

 Here's the finished table runner.  Lots of half square triangle blocks!

 I just did simple quilting as the fabric speaks for itself.  I used a variegated "Rainbows" thread from Superior thread in the border and block centres, and just some simple stitch in the ditch for the rest.
 On Friday, I finally began cutting the wonderful Oriental print that I found last winter.  It had a huge 24 inch pattern repeat.  I spread out three of the blocks - to - be, to show some of the variations.  I haven't tried octagon blocks before, and these will have kaleidoscope triangles to complete the corners.  I spent some time yesterday, adding a narrow accent band to the outside edge of each piece.  I've cut 30 blocks, as I want a larger quilt (the original pattern was only 40x40 inches).

Head over to Judy's blog to see what creative happenings are on the other linked blogs.

6 comments:

  1. The table runner is beautiful and makes me want to make one. Love all the different blocks coming out of the oriental fabric.

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    1. Love the table runner and the batiks are gorgeous.....Gail

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  2. nice use of that oriental. It is always so surprising what the finished blocks look like when cut up...

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  3. Beautiful table runner- those batiks are gorgeous. Love the SNW blocks. It is so fun to do these with large scale prints, you never know what will appear.

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  4. I love your table runner. Those new blocks look amazing. Can't wait to see more.

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  5. Great colors in the tablerunner. Also, your Oriental blocks will look great as a SNW quilt. Can't wait to see how you set it.

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