SAHRR 2026 begins today. I thought I had just the right starter block but I'm having second thoughts....I'll make the decision by Friday. Come back to see what I choose!
Meanwhile..... I've made nine Trip Around the World blocks. I'm using batiks so that though there are many colors there's some genre uniformity.
I found two tutorials, one with five fabrics and one with four fabrics. Both involve sewing strips and making a tube, slicing the tube, then unpicking the seam to create the stepped effect. Five-fabric is somewhat livelier but trickier to piece. The four-fabric is easier. It takes a couple of tries to get the hang of which seam to unpick.
The block on the lower left is mispieced. I'll correct it.
They are 9-1/2" unfinished. They'll be finished individually as table mats or mug rugs. 
When I pulled out the batik FQ/chunks bins they kind of exploded.....
I don't have a lot of Kaffe fabric and it seems the designs are getting simpler as the prints get wilder* but the photo shoot scenes are so gorgeous!
*The London book has the disclaimer that for designs worked in different colorways they only quilted the 'primary' quilt. The others were photographed as flimsies. Seems like a cop-out to me....
Linking up with Wednesday Wait Loss and checking out all the posts for Jennifer's latest blog hop.
wow great idea for those batiks...but oh tiny pieces! i have a few kaffe books, seen the rest thru library...even one book gives plenty of ideas...lol
ReplyDeleteI have a full set of his books as well (although not the two newest ones). I keep hoping I will be able to donate the full set to our library once they get settled after becoming independent from the county system (they're still weeding and organizing and finding their way). The quilting section there has always been dismal and I'd like to improve that situation. The books deserve to be circulated, not just sit on my shelf (although I totally agree with you about the colors and the photo shoots).
ReplyDeleteI love your TATW blocks - they'll make great mug rugs! I've made a TATW quilt, but the blocks turned out differently. Maybe it's in the way you undo the tube's and put the strips back together? I never know what to do with Kaffe prints - are you planning a project with them?
ReplyDeleteI like those trips!! what fun!!
ReplyDeleteI like the fact that they took enough time to make 3 versions of each. The quilting is never the star of the quilts so it took me 2 times through to see some were just tops. I like to have the books to see how they used some prints that I think are unusable and they usually surprise me, sometimes prompting me to buy one of the 'unusable' fabrics.
ReplyDeleteVery fun trip around the world blocks. I agree the photography in a Kaffe book is just gorgeous. One of these days I'll actually make something out of one mine. Have a great weekend.
ReplyDeleteThose Trip Around the World blocks are sure pretty! Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss. https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2026/01/14/wednesday-wait-loss-467
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever seen a Kaffe book so will have to check into the collection at the library. His use of colour is always fun.
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