Wednesday, December 13, 2017

Island Batik Ambassadors Quilt Table Toppers

When I found out our December Island Batik Ambassador challenge was to make a scrappy table topper I decided to challenge myself to use some of the 5 inch square packs I have from Island Batik Fabrics.  One day in August (yes, really, I was motivated that day even though the quilt wasn't due until December), I decided I wanted to play around with a traditional Delectable Mountains pattern.



 I started by making two 4 1/2 inch half square triangle units in opposite directions.  I then cut them in thirds and swapped some of the sections around until I came up with the design below.  Similar, but different.


I then used pink, red, and orange fabrics and ended up with 16 units.  I played with layouts until I came up with this design.


I then started adding in the creams.  The creams were also originally 5 inch Island Batik squares.


I decided I didn't want to have to worry about cutting off triangle tips with the binding, so I added a narrow strip all the way around the edge to prevent that problem.


Then I had fun on my friend Karen's Bernina Q20.  I love feathers.  You can never quilt enough of them!  I did the quilting in December and was glad the top was done.  Life gets busy and it was a good thing I only had quilting and binding to accomplish!



The final quilt!  I love how cheerful these warm colors are.  


I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

2 comments:

  1. This is so cute! I've heard before that quilters are worried about binding cutting off the points. But there would have been seam allowance accounted for anyway. Or am I missing something?

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