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.
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 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.
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