Chinese Coin Quilt with Cultural Fusion Borders

I've been working with Chinese Coins as an alternative use for strings and finally finished this quilt. Only a year in the making. Wanting to continue the freehand cutting and piecing, I made the borders with ideas from Sujata's book.

The navy and purple diamonds of the inner border used her Hourglass instructions while the pennants of the outer border started as Endless Mountains. It was exciting to combine different quilting instructions into an original work, to mix scissor cutting with rotary cutting, and to work with a broad range of scraps and colorful fabric from my stash. More details on my blog.

Thanks for your friendship and inspiration, Sujata.

Ann

Hourglass Play

Among my favorite quilts in Sujata's book are 

the hourglass ones and I knew that one day

I would experiment with her method.

I've been saving two small bundles for just the right  project.

One bundle is Oakshott and the other Handcrafted.

I thought they would work together 

but now I'm not sure.  

They are both quite saturated and many are dark or "neonish".

I've been making both square and rectangular blocks and

will make more before trying to arrange them.

Here's what I've done so far.