Timeless Traditions Blog Hop

The products featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and their industry sponsors.

For the November Blog Hop, the Ambassadors were challenged to make a quilt using at least five of the following traditional quilt blocks:

Four Patch, Nine Patch, Half Square Triangle, Quarter Square Triangle, Friendship Star, Flying Geese, Variable Star, Ohio Star, Nine Patch Chain, Pinwheel Mosaic

We could use them in any combination or size we wanted. I chose the five blocks shown below - Nine Patch Chain, Nine Patch, Ohio Star, Quarter Square Triangle and Half Square Triangle:

For Blog Hops, each Ambassador is provided a specific fabric collection to use. My assigned collection was Garden Bloom, designed by Jerry Khiev for Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting. I love these gorgeous colors, they make me think of sherbet!

I started playing in EQ and after discarding several designs, came up with a design I liked that I thought would showcase the beautiful Garden Bloom fabric collection.

I thought my design needed a coordinating color to "pop", as well as a neutral background fabric. I chose Frosting from the Neutrals Collection for the background and Caribbean from the Foundations Collection as the coordinating fabric:

For this project, I used my favorite piecing duo - Aurifil Thread 50 wt in #2600 Dove and a Schmetz Microtex Needle size 12.  The blocks shown below are from the Nine Patch Chain blocks. Those are 1" squares in those blocks!

Shown below is a completed Quarter Square Triangle block. These large Quarter Square Triangle Blocks make up the pinwheel in the center of my quilt:

The quarter square triangles for the Ohio Star Blocks required lots of trimming! For trimming I use a rotating cutting mat.