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.