Friday, September 11, 2015

Striated

Several years ago I was buying every striated batik I saw.  I'm not sure why.  I guess I just liked them and also thought that they would be good in landscape quilts, something I don't do very often or maybe I was thinking of using them instead of pieced strips or stripes in a quilt.  But other than using a little bit for the backgrounds of some ginkgo postcards, they have mostly been sitting there, neatly folded in three plastic shoeboxes labeled "striated batiks".

I wanted to make a somewhat large quilt to practice with my mostly unused Sweet Sixteen, so I got out the boxes and and started pulling out fabrics.  I found a favorite that had two pieces (I probably bought one and then forgot that I had it and bought another).

The label on this one said "Georgia's Poppies", probably a reference to Georgia O'Keefe. I thought the colors were yummy.




I proceeded to cut it up in 6 inch wide strips and then cut those into 6 inch squares.



Then  I separated them into similar colors and started placing them on my design wall from the center out.




So far, so good.  then I added another round.




One more round.





Here is the finished piece with floating circles fused on.  You might recognize this as the same format as my Fiesta quilt that I blogged about here. I guess you could say that this is another Rail Fence variation with printed strips instead of pieced. 

I think I am going to quilt it by just following the striations.  I'm linking up again with Off the Wall Friday.

8 comments:

The Inside Stori said...

WOW oh Wow.....what a great way to utilize what I think of as difficult to use fabric!!! Perfect!

Kathy said...

Those striated batiks--sooooo hard to resist! This is one of the best uses for them that I have seen. Brilliant!

LA Paylor said...

for me, it's all about the circles...

Linda M said...

That fabric really does all the work.

Shannon said...

I have a bunch of multicolored prints and many batiks that I bought for the same reason as you suggest, the sort of vague, oh that would be good in a landscape kind of reasoning. Now I find I never use them, but the glowing color arrangement and stripey feel in your piece makes me think I should pull them out!

quiltedfabricart said...

Wonderful! And so you! I can't believe you don't use your sweet 16 - I use mine a lot and love it.

Martha Ginn said...

I admit I don't shop much, and have not seen the striated batiks. But they are great for the "rail fence effect." BTW, I love your quilt in Kathy Loomis' new book.

Linda Teddlie Minton said...

I agree with Lee Anna, above ... the fabric is great, but the circles really "make" the quilt, so lively and exciting!