Variations on a Theme

With Sujata's permission,

I have been teaching from her Cultural Fusion Quilts book

at the newest of our local quilt shops.

Epicenter (above and below) is my recent sample quilt

that helped promote the freeform rail fence class.

Instead of a regular binding, I used facing for this one,

my fifth free form rail fence quilt.

You can read the story behind the facing decision HERE.

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But as all of us who have made Sujata's quilts before know,

there's more than one way to work with her blocks.

Hence the title of this post . . . 

Using the block samples in the book,

I made one version that reminds me of a coins quilt.

32" x 32" - bound with a soft yellow solid.

That same block could be rotated 90 degrees

and become a vertical coins/column-style quilt.

Same layout but quite a different look.

I quilted this one with Buttercup Yellow 

using my wavy window blind shadow design.

Another set of step out blocks were laid out

in the quarter log cabin style.

I really like this design and wonder 

how it would evolve with even more blocks.

One day I may even make another one 

just so I can play with the idea.

Backed with a soft floral and bound with a solid.

32" x 32" and quilted along the seam lines 

with an organic wavy line

using Buttercup yellow Glide thread.

Inspired by LeeAnn's quilt in the book,

I took the pinwheel idea a step further.

Instead of keeping the four quadrants together,

I split them up to create this layout.

32" x 32"

Backed with a Tula Pink print and 

bound with a soft purple Moda Marble.

I quilted this one in a wiggly concentric spiral 

from the center out to the edges

using Eggplant Glide thread.

Hopefully these example quilts

demonstrate to the students

that there is more than one way

to work with Sujata's freeform rail fence blocks!

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