In all these years of quilting, I haven't been very good about seeing a quilt in a magazine and actually making it. But while we were on our trip to CA. in April, I had mags with me, a limited amount of fabrics (well, that kept expanding along the way), and a limited amount of space. I did have my sewing machine and basic quilting supplies as well. Plus I picked up some used mags along the way and this quilt (top picture) was in it in an article by Nancy Elliott MacDonald (see QNM issue December 2001). I liked it because it was made of batiks, which I had with me, and it was a small piece and easy to do on the RV. I didn't like the kind of washed out look of the "tiles."
The bottom picture shows my finished quilt "Jewels in Batiks." It's brighter and I love it! I was going to name it Traveling Tiles but someone at Guild said it looked like jewels and I decided they were right. This was the first piece quilted with my Bernina Stitch Regulator and I 'm very happy with that! (see "machine quilting")
See Embellishing Quilts and Using Fabric Markers posts for techniques I used in this quilt.
I really like this pattern because it's simple but can look very different. In the article, Nancy has a series of quilts using this pattern and the others look like a bed of flowers in various settings.
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