Flying Together - Designer Shop Hop

It's my day to share my block for the Moving Forward designer's shop hop! This week 10 designers are each sharing a 12" block, plus a layout that uses all of the blocks. So that's 10 free (for now) blocks and 10 possible layouts! The theme for the hop is "Moving Forward - separate, but together, inspired by quarantine." Immediately when I read the theme, I thought of flying geese blocks. Traditionally, though, flying geese blocks are connected to each other. I separated them, giving them all a bit of space, but kept them all moving in the same direction. Here is my Flying Together block. You can download the pattern here.

This is what the block looked like when I originally drew it in EQ8: 

I had all intentions of making it with ALL the colours, just as it's shown, until I pulled out my scraps and the blue and teal ones were right on top. They started singing their siren song and I just couldn't resist. So I went back to EQ8, coloured the whole block with blues and teals and then tiled them together to make a whole quilt. I loved it! No surprise there, if you know me at all 😊

I have 6 blocks made so far. I'm trying to keep a bit of balance between the blues and teals and I'm making sure no fabric repeats in a given block, though there are plenty of repeats spread throughout the blocks. I'll need 30 blocks for the quilt I have in mind, so it will be easy enough to spread out the repeat fabrics.

I have white solid fabric from at least three different manufacturers in my stash and scraps and I'm not worrying at all about combining them. Though there are subtle differences between them, they all read as white, so I'm okay with the variations. Plus, it's a scrap quilt, so scrappiness in the background is a good thing.

When it came time to create my layout with all 10 blocks from the hop, I wanted the quilt to be bigger than just 10 blocks, so I used multiples of most of the blocks plus sashing and plain blocks. The quilt would finish at 60" x 68". I created the layout first in greyscale, so I could concentrate on balancing the shapes, rather than worrying about colours.

Greyscale isn't very exciting, though, is it? Blues, teals and a pop of magenta make it much more interesting!

If you wanted to make this layout, the sashing is cut at 2 1/2" and there are two 12 1/2" plain squares and four 6 1/2" x 12 1/2" rectangles, along with the blocks.

All of the blocks are free from now through July 18th, then there may be a fee. Visit each designer to get the pattern for their block. Don't forget to download your copy of Flying Together, too!

July 13 Tamarinis                    https://www.tamarinis.com
July 13 Laura Piland               https://www.sliceofpiquilts.com/
July 14 Sherry Shish              https://poweredbyquilting.com
July 14 Amy Friend                 https://www.duringquiettime.com/
July 15 Kate Colleran             https://seamslikeadream.shop
July 15 Becky Jorgensen       https://patchworkposse.com
July 16  Leanne Parsons        https://www.devotedquilter.com   
July 16 Patti Carey                 https://pattispatchwork.com/
July 17 Swan Sheridan          https://www.swanamity.com     
July 17 Cherry Guidry            https://www.cherryblossomsquilting.com/  

Happy shop hopping and sewing!

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