New Inklingo Shapes: Tulip Patch

Tulip Patch Quilt – Original 8 inch [20,3 cm.] Block set on Point, with sashings. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

Linda Franz released a new Inklingo shape collection, perfect for Spring! It is the classic Tulip Patch. In my quilt designs, it may look like appliqué, but it is entirely pieced!

I traced a picture of the block in EQ8, to play with quilt designs. My EQ block is not entirely symmetrical, so it isn’t accurate, but good enough for design purposes.

It’s a very nice block for hand piecing or hybrid piecing (meaning, I would not want to piece the inset seams by machine). Linda has provided a great illustration of the piecing order in the shape collection, and proved machine piecing this block is absolutely doable, even for a 12-year old beginner! Well, I am in awe of this young man!

I hope to inspire you with some pretty pictures of quilt designs with this block. I took a liberty and drafted a variation block, too. Can you spot what I added in the picture below?

Tulip Patch Variation Block Quilt (added seam line in Triangle F) – original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

From a coloring point of view (not the piecing point of view), it made sense to me to add a seam line in the ‘bottom triangle’. It allows for transparency effects, and playing with light and dark. Now, these half triangles F are not actually in the shape collection. Looking at a picture of the 8 inch [20,3 cm.] block, I am guessing triangle F is about a 3.75 inch half square triangle (HST). To split it and still have straight of grain on the outside, you would need two 3.75 inch quarter square triangles (QST’s.)

In the index of Inklingo shapes I found several Inklingo shape collections with 3.73 inch QST’s. Depending on the accuracy of my estimated size, it could be usable (or it could be too small).

The next bigger size QST available as Inklingo shape is 4.24 inch. That really is too big, but you could always use them if ‘necessary’. Just piece them together, line up the center seams with the rest of the pieced block, and trim the outside of the block afterwards.

Tulip Patch Variation Blocks – straight set – alternated with Flying Geese blocks – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

Tulip Patch Variation Block – straight set – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

Well, I hope this put you in the mood for sewing Spring Quilts! The shape collection has a special introductory price until 28 of March 2024.

And Linda is even offering a flash sale of her wonderful book ‘Winding Ways – Quilting the Inklingo Way’, for both the download and the hard copy version. It is a great resource for every quilter, and especially with the Tulip Patch shape collection. The book has great tips and includes sewing instructions for piecing curves.

XXX Annika

New: Night And Day Inklingo Shape Collection

Inklingo (Linda Franz) has issued a new Inklingo Shape collection for another one of Willyne Hammerstein’s fabulous Millefiori quilts! It’s Night And Day, from the book Millefiori Quilts 5.

Carrot And Rettich By Moonlight, my color variation of Willyne Hammerstein’s Night And Day Quilt.

I was very excited when I saw this collection this morning, because it is one I can play with in EQ! Most of Willyne Hammerstein’s designs are tessellations on a non-square grid. And that is very difficult to recreate in EQ.

Screen caption of EQ8 after I found the perfect number of snaps to match the lines in the image to trace :-).

So, in EQ I imported an image from the Shape Collection of the page with shapes without seam allowances on my Drawing Worktable. I cropped it to a square that would repeat to recreate an image of the original tessellating design. After fiddling around a bit with the number of snaps, I was able to trace the image to draft a usable block for design purposes.

It isn’t actually accurate, because it has seam lines around the edges where I only drafted half shapes to get a square block. But, it’s good enough to create a color variation quilt design with a very different effect than Willyne Hammerstein’s fussy cut original quilt. Instead of four pointed stars, I created carrots and rettich by moonlight! :-)

The border is just an ‘instant’ diamonds border from EQ that I thought looked good. I was too lazy to calculate for something precisely Inklingoable.

I hope this inspires you to see even more fabulous possibilities with this new shape collection (and your Millefiori Quilts 5 book). You can get the Inklingo shapes for a special reduced introduction price until Sunday February 25 Midnight!

XXX Annika

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

Circling Swallows Quilt Designs

Circling Swallows set On Point, with sashings. Striped fabrics are all oriented towards the points of the diamonds. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

Linda Franz did a blog post about sewing Circling Swallows blocks with Inklingo on her All About Inklingo Blog. Everything you need for a 10.84 inch [27,53 cm.] Circling Swallows block is in this Free Shape Collection!

It is wonderful that she included the additional square and QST you need to finish this larger star, which aren’t available to print on fabric, to print on freezer paper for templates!

I wanted to see what this block looks like with striped fabrics, so I drafted the block in EQ8 and played with it. I only found red and blue striped fabrics to my liking in the EQ Libraries, so that determined my color palette.

Circling Swallows in a straight set, different orientation of the striped fabrics. Alternated with striped eight pointed stars. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

In the quilt design above, the bigger stars (3.18 inch / 8 cm.) are not Inklingoable. But, if:

• You used the 3.06 inch [7,8 cm.] diamonds from the Celestial Star shape collection, and
• Pieced them slightly outside the printed lines, and
• Use the freezer paper templates for the QST’s and the squares from the Free Shape collection,

I think you could make it work.

Variation of the quilt design above, straight set, now with a slightly different coloring and added sashings with cornerstones. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

I think the orientation of the striped fabrics in the red stars in this last one is more harmonious with the orientation of the stripes in the Circling Swallows blocks.

The orientation of the stripes in the red stars in the design above this one is more dynamic. If I were to add sashings to that one, I wouldn’t also add cornerstones. I think it could become too busy.

Anyway, I have decided I really like striped fabrics for Circling Swallows!

XXX Annika

Inklingoable Winding Ways quilt designs

Following up on my previous post, I continued to play with Inklingo Windings Ways in EQ8, and came up with some more designs you can actually make in Inklingo. I moved on from combining Winding Ways with Inklingo Orange Peel, and revisited the combination of Winding Ways with Inklingo Sunflowers!

6 inch Inklingo Winding Ways and 6 inch Inklingo Sunflower blocks on point – Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

If you have been following my blog for a loooong time, these designs may look familiar to you. They are variations of red and white designs I posted 10 years ago! You can find that post here.

12 inch Inklingo Winding Ways blocks with 12 inch Inklingo Sunflower blocks with 6 inch Inklingo Sunflower blocks inside in an on point set. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

I really like how Winding Ways look very different on point and horizontal. On point, the shape the petals form remind me of angels, and the corners of the quilt are more interesting with the spike shapes.

6 inch Inklingo Winding Way blocks with 12 inch Inklingo Winding Ways Deluxe blocks. I used this setting previously for a quilt with Sunflower blocks in two sizes (see picture below), so this one looks very different. It works a bit better with blocks in all the same colors because of the even number of blocks in a row. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

Inklingo Sunflower Wreath Quilt using 12 inch and 6 inch Sunflower blocks, in the same horizontal set as the Winding Ways quilt above. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis (c) 2011!

I’ve got more pictures of my Winding Ways quilt designs ready for you! The first follow up post is here.

XXX Annika

Winding Ways Book and Quilt Designs

Update 10 May 2021: Linda Franz has issued a new shape collection for Winding Ways, 6 inch DeLuxe. That means that the quilt designs below are all completely Inklingoable now!

On World Book Day, I received a wonderful new quilting book that had traveled the world (from Canada to the Netherlands) to find me!

It is ‘Winding Ways – Quilting the Inklingo Way’ by Linda Franz. It is a beautiful, great reference book for any quilter! It contains so much information which applies to many, many more patchwork designs than Winding Ways.

And it is not just about Inklingo either. With just this book, Linda gives you all the information and the templates to make Winding Ways blocks + special variations in several sizes! (3 inches, 4.5″, 6,” 9 “and 12”).

It is a hard cover book with glossy paper, and it is made with all the love and amazing attention to detail I have come to expect from Linda! Lots of pictures of pretty fabric, fussy cutting, cute pictures of Monkey and many amazing quilt designs.

And of course this inspired me to play with Winding Ways in EQ. (Linda has a free EQ project file to download on her blog, but I drafted my own).

I challenged myself to come up with designs that add something to what’s already in the book. Since there is already so much, my best bet was to combine Winding Ways with shapes from a different Inklingo Shape collection :-). Because of the similarities in curves, I picked the Orange Peel (DeLuxe) shape collection.

EQ8 Project Sketchbook with selection of the blocks I drafted for these designs

The grid/size does not match however. The Winding Ways are multiples of 3 inches, and the basic Orange Peel units are 4 inch (so 4 units make an 8 inch block). So, I ended up with quilt designs that you can make with Inklingo, and some that you can only partly make with Inklingo, because the shapes I used are the ‘wrong size’.

Today I am showing the Inklingoable designs. The rest will follow.

Winding Ways quilt that uses the center ‘bonus shapes’ from the Inklingo Winding Ways Deluxe collections. These wider center shapes create a cross shape going through the center, and make the blocks easier to piece. This is especially useful for the cute 3 inch blocks! It makes the blocks slightly bigger too. This design also uses the bonus shape which is highlighted in the design below. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis

This looks more like a classic Winding Ways quilt. It also has a twist, created by using one of Linda’s Inklingo bonus shapes (the grey edges on the light petals) from the DeLuxe Inklingo Winding Ways shape collections. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

In this quilt design I combined 6 inch Winding Ways (variation) blocks with 8 inch Alabama Beauty blocks, from the Inklingo Orange Peel Deluxe shape collection. I framed the 6 inch blocks with a 1 inch yellow frame, so everything fits the 4 inch grid. I put 4 inch sashings between the blocks, with 4 inch basic Orange Peel units in the corner stones, creating a sort of beaded trellis pattern. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

This design is using yet another bonus shape from the Inklingo Winding Ways Deluxe collections. The red petals are larger, so they fill the corners of the blocks. You could do this without the bonus shape, but you would have a seam between two red patches. The yellow spikes reminded me of Alabama Beauty, so I elaborated on that in the following design. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

My choice for the border blocks (only available as 8 inch Inklingo blocks) defined the size of the center Winding Ways blocks to be 6 inches. Note that the blue borders are not all the same width, to negotiate the grid difference between 6 inch blocks in the rectangular center and 8 inch blocks in the outer borders. Original quilt design by Annika Kornelis.

Did you know the Winding Ways pattern could be this versatile? And there’s even more! (In Linda’s book now, or on my blog later…)

If you are interested in any of the Winding Ways shape collections, go to Inklingo’s Main Winding Ways page to see which sizes are available. Bonus shapes are in the Deluxe collections. You can find the Inklingo Orange Peel shape collections here.

Read two follow up posts here and here.

XXX Annika