Fairy Cabin

Welcome to my stop on the Island Batik log cabin blog hop!  I was sent the beautiful Fairy Floss collection by Tammy Silvers of Tamarinis.  I love these colors together! 

 

Log cabins are such a versatile block; there are so many options!  I worked with EQ8 to design my quilt.  I had a center I really liked, but it wasn't large enough for a whole quilt, and using it as a really large block and repeating 4 times would have been larger than I had time for.  I was feeling really stuck.  I had dinner planned with my quilting friend Kate, and I took my laptop.  After we ate delicious Mexican food, I brought out my laptop, opened up EQ8, and showed Kate what I had.  She almost immediately suggested a courthouse steps block I had already been playing with as a border.  It was exactly what I needed!  I took her ideas home and played some more.  I think we sent about 20 texts back and forth that night with me taking pictures of my EQ8 screen and her suggesting tweaks!  I am so pleased with our joint design!  I am calling it Fairy Cabin, with a nod to both the Fairy Floss fabrics and the log cabin blocks.  I like the idea of this being in a fairy's home, or even hung in a fairy's cabin!

The center I liked, as designed in EQ8

Fun side story: at the restaurant, there was a young girl, maybe about 6, who walked up to our table and was absolutely fascinated with the images in EQ8.  Her family had to drag her away!

The center in the actual fabrics

Fairy Cabin uses a combination of traditional log cabin blocks and courthouse steps variations.  It finishes at 50" square.  I pieced and quilted with Aurifil thread using Schmetz needles.  The batting is Hobbs silk batting, which is nice and light.  And this was my first time using my new Oliso iron!  I did most of the cutting in strips, but I did use my Studio 180 Designs Wing Clipper tool for the tiny flying geese for the turquoise stars in the outer border.  

tiny geese!

Materials used in this project were given to me by Island Batik, Schmetz, Hobbs, Aurifil, Studio 180 Design, and Oliso.

binding ready to go

For the background, I used Oatmeal from the always-available Foundations collection.  It's a nice kind of mellow yellowish color, and I really think it glows with the Fairy Floss.  Oatmeal plus cabins makes me think of Goldilocks!

Courthouse Steps

 

log cabin

There are twenty different fabrics (SKUs) in the Fairy Floss collection.  I used fifteen in the quilt top and a sixteenth for the binding.  That means I have 4 half yards that are untouched.  I have plans for one of them, but I am offering a giveaway of the remaining three.  That's a yard and a half of beautiful Island Batik fabric, and I'll probably add some scraps of some of the other Fairy Floss fabrics as well.  To enter the giveaway, leave me a comment.  You can comment on anything you like, but if you need a prompt, tell me your favorite log cabin block variation.  For a second entry, visit me on facebook.

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Two other Island Batik ambassadors are playing with Fairy Floss today. Be sure to visit them and see what they made!

Brenda @ Songbird Designs

Pamela @ Pamela Quilts