Merry Christmas 2022

Like I announced in this post, I dug up the files for my 2017 Christmas quilts (they hadn’t transferred to my current computer) to make some updated Inklingoable Christmas quilts. I replaced the 4.5 inch [11,4 cm.] Inklingo LeMoyne Stars (from the free shape collection,!) and 3 inch Inklingo LeMoyne Stars with 4 inch [10,2 cm.] five pointed stars.

I think the eight pointed stars from the 2017 quilts look more like snowflakes, and the curved shapes of the five pointed stars in the 2022 quilts are more harmonious with the other curved blocks.

These quilts use the 12 inch [30,5 cm.] Inklingo Ribbon Flower and 9 inch [22,9 cm.] Inklingo Dresden Plates. The Inklingo Dresden Plates finish at 9 inch [22.9 cm.] originally, so I virtually put a 1.5 inch [3,8 cm.] frame around each block, to make it finish at 12 inch.

2022 Christmas quilt with 12 inch Inklingo Ribbon Flower blocks in a straight set, alternated with framed 4 inch Inklingo Five pointed star blocks – Original Quilt design by Annika Kornelis

And my final updated Inklingo Christmas quilt design. This time I combined the Ribbon Flower blocks with Inklingo Clamshell Rose blocks, with the 4 inch clamshell shapes in a 12 inch block. Like in the top quilt, 4 inch sashings with the 5-pointed stars in the cornerstones.

Merry Christmas and ‘Vrolijk Kerstfeest’ from Rotterdam!

XXX Annika

Five Point Star Quilt Designs Continued

Well, it’s been a while, but I promised you more quilt designs with Inklingo Fivepointed Stars blocks, a bit folksy this time.

Inklingo School House and Stars – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis, combining 9 inch [22,9 cm.] Inklingo School House blocks with 4 inch [10,2 cm.] 5-pointed stars.

Inklingo School House, Stars and Log Cabins – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

These are all 10 inch [25,4 cm.] blocks. The sashings are 2 inch [5 cm.]

You can use the Inklingo 1 inch Log Cabin shape collection to frame the Five pointed star blocks.

The 9 inch Schoolhouse blocks need a 0.5 inch frame to finish them as 10 inch blocks. In the picture I used the sashing color for these narrow frames. It makes the sashing look a bit irregular, but using the same color is probably easiest to make a narrow strip look neat in an actual quilt.

Inklingo has 0.5 inch Log Cabin shapes, but they only go up to 5 inch long. If you print two in a row and don’t cut them apart, you could use them to frame the blocks, trimming off excess on the outside after piecing.

Five pointed Stars in Log Cabins – original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

Again 10 inch [25,4 cm.] Log cabin blocks, using the 4 inch Five pointed star as the center, framed by 1 inch Inklingo Log Cabin shapes.

I alternated these with unpieced blocks. If you wanted, you could applique the same stars on those blocks. The Inklingo shape collection for the Five pointed stars provides an applique option too.

I designed this quilt with scrappy fabrics for the logs and alternating blocks in mind. It still looks a bit coordinated, because truly scrappy coloring was too much work in EQ. Of course you could also do scrappy stars.

XXX Annika

Two More Five Point Star Quilt Designs

I promised you more quilt designs with the latest Inklingo shape collection, the 4″ Five Point Star blocks.

Today I am showing you two designs which have a more modern look than the previous designs, which look more traditional / vintage.

Five Point Star Minimalist Christmas Tree – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

I designed this quilt to use pieced blocks, but of course you could applique circles with five point stars on top. The 4 inch blocks are set with sashings of different sizes, to get the right elongated shapes for the tree above and the heart below.

In the tree quilt design, I set Width (vertical sashings) to 0 in EQ, and Height (horizontal sashings) to 2.250 inch. In EQ, I set the Left and Right Borders (9 inch) to a different width than the Top and Bottom Borders (4.5 inch).

I Love All Stars – original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

For the heart quilt design, I set the sashing Width to 1 inch, and sashing Height to 1.750 inch. The dark borders are 4.5 inch all around.

Next, I have a couple of more ‘folksy’ quilt designs with Five Point Stars coming up.

XXX Annika

More Five Point Star Quilt Designs

I am a bit under the weather, and only feel like doing something fun when I am up. So I allowed myself to play with the Inklingo 4 inch Five Point Star block some more!

I only have energy to come up with very simple design ideas, but I think they have the charm of traditional, timeless quilts. I envision them as soft, crinkly quilts with cotton batting.

In this post I am showing you combinations with five patch blocks, both set straight and on point. EQ lets me combine 5 inch blocks with 4 inch blocks if I set block size to 5, and add 4 inch sashings and use the cornerstones for setting 4 inch blocks.

Inklingo Five Point Stars (4 inch) Combined with Five Patch blocks (5 inch) straight set with 4 inch sashings. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis. The blocks are completely Inklingoable. You could opt for pieced stars or for appliqued stars.

Twinkle, Twinkle – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis. Same blocks as above, different coloring, set on point.

Baubles And Snowflakes – original quilt design by Annika Kornelis. This design is a variation on the previous design. Exact same blocks and on point set, but different coloring and less piecing, because I left out the partial Five Patch blocks around the edges.

Well, I hope you are as inspired by this latest Inklingo shape collection as I am, because I have more designs to show you!

XXX Annika

Winter Treats Quilt Design

Winter Treats Quilt – original design by Annika Kornelis

Inklingo’s Linda Franz recently published a shape collection for one of my favorite shapes: A five pointed star. So of course I had to play with this in EQ!

The shape collection makes several 4 inch [10,16 cm.] block variations. It contains several bonus shapes, like the half star point shown above, and a center pentagon with matching triangles to finish the star. As usual, a very clever and complete shape collection! There is even a layout for printing the star shape for back-basting appliqué!

This collection is sweet, so I put two block variations in a very simple design that reminds me of gingerbread cookies, chocolate, marshmallows, whipped cream and peppermint. Winter Treats!

In EQ, 7 x 7 rows of 4 inch blocks are in a straight set with 2 inch [5,08 cm.] sashings. It is only because I used three colors for the sashings (chocolate brown, gingerbread brown and white) that it appears there is an inside border in this design. The actual border settings in EQ are, from the inside: 0.5 inch [1,3 cm.] – 3 inch [7,6 cm.] – 1 inch [2,54 cm.] – 2 inch [5,08 cm.] – 1 inch [2,54 cm.]

This makes the center of the quilt 40 inches [101,6 cm.] square and including borders 55 inches [139,7 cm.]

I drafted the blocks by tracing over an imported picture of one of Linda’s pieced blocks in EQ8. It wasn’t entirely symmetrical on my Block Worktable, and the actual seam lines didn’t fit my snap settings exactly. I had to eyeball and adjust the placement of the parts inside the 4 inch square a bit. The drafted blocks may not be entirely accurate, but I think it’s close enough for design purposes!

I hope to come up with more designs, combining the 5-pointed star with other Inklingo blocks. I had an idea to play with my 2017 Christmas quilt design to replace the small eightpointed stars with the 5-pointed ones, or try some other combinations with Ribbon Flower. But, I have not been able to retrieve the project file! :-(. I hope it is still on my old laptop, perhaps I forgot to transfer it to this computer along with the rest of the files.

If I find it, you will probably get to see the results!

XXX Annika