Places You’ll Go – New Beginnings

Aloha from Kauai! I thought it appropriate that I start my blogging journey for Riley Blake with the quilt design/pattern that I use to teach Beginning Quilting. This is a design by FabShop Network and Debbie Welch, Quilting Possibilities.

It is a combination of the traditional 9-patch and Monkey Wrench blocks, creating a secondary design. For my new quilters, I have them choose three fabrics for the blocks and the inner border and a fourth fabric for the outer border… however… the “Places You Will Go” line lent itself to adding a fifth color for the inner border and binding.

I love the high contrast and deep color saturation on these batiks. The fun beachy tjaps fit the island

vibe.

Take a look at those beach huts! I could not resist putting a wide feature border on to frame the quilt.

For backing, I used Painter’s Watercolor Swirl by J. Wrecker Frisch. I quilted it on my Gammill Statler stitcher using the Flip Flops At the Beach E2E design by Lily Street Patterns, Marci Gore.

Mahalo for joining me on my journey!

Toni Wass, Tiger Textiles