Points of Connection Pattern Release

I'm excited to have my first pattern release of 2022 today! Allow me to introduce you to Points of Connection. Get the pattern in my Etsy shop at the introductory price this week.

I used the new On the Wind collection, by Jill Finley for Riley Blake, and the fabrics are so much fun! There are kites and dandelion clocks and paper airplanes flying around. The kites are definitely my favourite.

Square in a square blocks are hard to stitch accurately, so I chose to paper piece them. The whole quilt comes together much better when all of the units are accurate!

I had trouble coming up with a name for this quilt, so I sent pictures of it to a couple of friends asking for help. Michelle has named a few of my quilts now and she came through again. She said the first thing she noticed about the quilt was all the connections, which is what led us to settle on Points of Connection. Even with all the places where elements of the design connect, there are actually few places where the points need to match up. Bonus, right? 

The name feels meaningful as we were figuring out the name on a day when gas prices were predicted to go up because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and it made me think about all the connections between people around the world. We may be far apart, but what happens in one part of the world still affects us. Whether it's the war in Ukraine affecting gas prices or a drought in California affecting food availability, and of course the infamous virus that traveled the world so easily, we are more connected than we may have realized.

I've mentioned before that one of my 2022 goals is to make more small quilts to use up some of the off-cuts of Warm and Natural batting from making my bigger quilts, so this 42" x 56" baby size fits the theme perfectly. It's actually longer than most of my baby quilts, which tend to be square, and I really like the longer length. The Points of Connection pattern also includes instructions for a 56" x 70" throw size.

My go-to double loop quilting was a simple choice, since it echoes the flight trails of the paper airplanes in the green fabric. With the white background, I used white Aurifil for the quilting. I'm always surprised how not-distracting it is when thread used for an all-over design doesn't match some of the fabrics. Sure, it might be a bit different if I used black thread, but white works fine 😊

I was distracted the evening I put the binding on, so I had it finished before I realized I forgot to put my label on first. Oops! I guess I'll have to do a little hand stitching at some point to fix that.

In the meantime, the quilting looks very pretty on the back, doesn't it?

Points of Connection got a snowshoe trek/photo shoot and I love the pictures of it laying in the snow.

Even better, look what I found when I picked the quilt up off the snow. Quilted snow! Can we make that a thing somehow?

Points of Connection is available in my Etsy shop as both a PDF and a printed pattern. It's available at its introductory price now through Friday, so get your copy today to get the best price.

I'm linking up this week with NTT, Beauties Pageant, TGIFF and Finished (or not) Friday.