Les Fruits de Mer Willyne Hammerstein Quilt Design – EQ project

Les Fruits De Mer Block – fussy cut in EQ with digital fabrics from the EQ fabric libraries

I wanted some fun and color, so decided to try and draft one of Willyne Hammerstein’s recent Inklingoable designs in EQ, to play with it. Les Fruits de Mer is one of the few Millefiori patterns that can be drafted as a square block, so it is suitable for EQ.

I don’t have the Millefiori 4 book with the pattern for the quilt. So I just picked an existing block from the EQ block libraries that gave me a start for drafting a block that looked close enough. I am sharing the project file with you (link for downloading below). If you have EQ8 quilt design software, you can use it to color the quilts with the digital fabrics of your choice. NOTE: The block size in the project file is random, just to play nicely with the fabrics of my choice!

If you are going to make the quilt from the Millefiori book, probably using Inklingo shapes, you can’t pick a random block size!

Playing with this project can be good practice using the Fussy Cut fabric tool and the Rotate fabric tool. Even though I drafted the quilts a bit smaller (less blocks) than the original, I got fed up with rotating and fussy cutting after some time. So, if you like the blue quilt, you can finish fussy cutting for yourself :-).

Fruits de Mer Quilt Small – Pattern from the Millefiori 4 book by Willyne Hammerstein – Drafted in EQ and colored by Annika Kornelis

Fruits de Mer Quilt Block close up

Fruits de Mer Quilt – Horizontal Set – Variation on the design by Willyne Hammerstein, pattern in the Millefiori 4 quilt book – Drafted in EQ and colored by Annika Kornelis

You can see the blocks in more detail if you download the project and open it in EQ8. It will not open in previous versions of EQ. You can download the project here.

Have fun and stay healthy and safe!

XXX Annika