In the Beginning Fabrics | If These Threads Could Talk

Jason Yenter tasked Terri Butler and I to re-imagine this beautiful panel “Blue Fury” from In The Beginning Fabrics. I made a One Block Wonder (OBW) quilt and Terri is making one her original OBW Jackets.

I wanted to see if the Celtic Chains borders would make good stars and hexies. Boy, did they ever! Using my First Choice Ruler I cut my strips 3.25″ to yield 5″ finished hexies.

I felt the design needed some large design elements. Using my Star 60 tool, I made 10″ finished Star 60 units from the Celtic Chains. I also created a 15″ finished Hollow Cube 60‘s in a Cube to represent a Dragons Lair!

The first photo shows all the 4 sections stitched to the panel. The second photo shows hexies and half hexies pinned in place. This arrangement makes it hard to find where the panel ends.

The story here is: There are two dragons. A larger one in forefront and a smaller one flying around one of the castle towers. The large Hollow Cube is the dragon’s lair. The smaller hollow cubes are the anterooms leading to lair. It is dusk and the stars are starting to appear in the dark sky. The larger dragon is the mother and she is trying to the younger to return the lair! Blue Fury measures 67″ x 54″ (un-quilted).

Thank you Jason Yenter and In The Beginning Fabrics for these beautiful fabrics. Be sure to follow Terri Butler and I on our joint Facebook page Mama Said These Threads Could Talk. Terri will be posting photo’s of her Blue Fury OBW Jacket soon.

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Stitchin Heaven Quilt Shop is excited to announce a new collaboration of a unique BOM program from Deb Tucker (Studio 180 Design), NYT and USA Today best-selling author Marie Bostwick (Between Heaven and Texas, Hope on the Inside, and the Cobbled Court Quilt Series, including A Single Thread), Deb Luttrell (Stitchin’ Heaven), and Jason Yenter (In the Beginning Fabrics). In this 12-month program you will take your own Journeys through an exclusive novella written by Marie Bostwick. Each month you will receive a chapter from the book which is exclusive to this program. It is a page-turning tale of love, loss, and new beginnings for PJ Lloyd, an adventurous young woman who defies her family and risks her future to make a difference after the attack that plunged America into the second World War.

I will be your guide on this “Journey”. Every month I will post a tutorial showing you how to use the tools required for this beautiful quilt and answering your questions.

Throughout the Journeys BOM you will be on your own journey to learn how to use 8 of the tools from Studio 180 Design. Tools include: V Block, Corner Pop, Four-patch Square Up, Tucker Trimmer, Rapid Fire Lemoyne Star, Square Squared, Wing Clipper, Corner Beam. The final quilt measures 102″ x 102″. A beautiful collection of fabrics have been designed by Jason Yenter of In The Beginning Fabrics, that will make this project an heirloom favorite.

I tested the pattern with fabrics from Deb Tucker’s stash. It is truly a beautiful quilt I can’t wait for you to make your own! The Journey’s BOM program is due to start in September 2020. We will be sure to keep you up to date and informed on all the details.

A conversation with Deb Luttrell, Deb Tucker & Marie Bostwick