Sister/Friend Janelle is about to marry her "Prince Charming". She's a wonderful woman who deserved her happily-ever-after and I couldn't be more delighted. I want to give her something special as a wedding present.
On a recent trip to one of my favorite stores, I saw some fat quarters with prints inspired by ancient Egyptian colours and designs. Knowing Janelle is mad for anything connected with ancient Egypt, I grabbed those quarters and enough coordinating bits to make a set of four placemats and napkins.
Here are the prints:
The blue-with-stars (on top) and the Egyptian-inspired stripes were the ones that first caught my eye. The three fabrics to the right coordinate with the colours in the stripe. The fabric underneath the quarters (the reddish-brown) will be used for binding and for the knapkins.
I pulled out my quilt design software and came up with this:
This will be my first nine-patch quilt project.
Anytime you buy fabric before you have a design (and measurements) it's a risk. Naturally I found that I came up short on 3 of the fat-quarters. There's plenty of the strip, plenty of the turquoise, but after I cut out the squares I found I needed 24 more squares (8 each of the gold and two maroon fabrics). Not a problem! I cut 24 squares from my binding/knapkin fabric and have worked them into the design. The placemats won't match each other perfectly, but a little bit of individuality won't hurt.
To keep it all straight, I've stacked the squares for each placemat separately:
All set! I'll get the blocks put together and will cut the "lattice" strips afterward.
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G'day Liz,
ReplyDeleteLoved reading your blog..... I came across it because I was searching for the Egyptian Stripe fabric you have in your photo. I don't suppose you know which collection it is from? -
Cheers, Wendy
Hi, Wendy! (shamefully... I've only just noticed your comment here.. my apologies.)
DeleteThe fabric is from Robert Kaufman Fabrics (website: http://www.robertkaufman.com/)
The selvage printing on the main "Egyptian" print gives the name "Empress Bouquet" - but when I went hunting for it, I didn't find it named that on the website. But you'll find it on this page (scroll toward the bottom and note the 5 fabric swatches shown, it's the one in the middle).
http://www.robertkaufman.com/quilting/quilts_patterns/empress_bouquet/
(You may have to copy/paste the URL above into your browser, as apparently I can't make a hyperlink work here in comments)
The other prints are from the same collection, but I don't have any of the selvage from them, so can't give you the names.
The print designer is Peggy Toole - and on the Kaufman website you can do a "search" with her name and see her other prints.