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.
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.
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
Stof Genoeg 