Hawaiian Hanabi

This quilt for my daughter was inspired by her resent "I want-to-get-away" trip to Hawaii and her love of Japanese fireworks, Hanabi. 

While she was in Hawaii, I came across just by chance the Missouri Star Quilt Co's Youtube tutorial on the Burst Block quilt. It's a totally tiki look, Hawaiian vibe!

I ordered the Burst Block template, along with all the 10 square batiks and blacks that I needed to use for the blocks.

I picked out colors that gave me a Hawaiian feel of ocean, land, vegetation, and lava.

I had to watch the tutorial a couple of times to pick up important tips on placement of the template. The black 10 squares got cut as shown above and the colored batiks were cut in half as shown above. The black triangles and batik triangles are placed right and left side from center black cuts. 

After sewing the batik triangles to the black center, the ruler is placed first on right side with the single dot/line on the sewn seam and the template's small tip as close to the center black's tip while keeping the line on the seam. Cut on right side of template. The cut off triangle fabric is set to the right side to keep order for future placements and cuttings of right side block.

After right side is cut, flip ruler so writing is down, as in above photo. Again match up single dot/line with seam and small tip as far down as possible to center bottom, and then cut on left side of template. 

Single dot/line is goes with first seam, two dots/line with second seam, and three dots/line with third seam. It is important to make sure the small tip of template is as close to the bottom tip of the black center, which helps in keeping consistency of the bursts. When working on right side of block, the template is placed with words read correctly. And when working on left side of block the template get flipped so the writing is down. Also very important in making the blocks, one needs to keep the fabrics for right side of block on right and fabrics for left side of blocks on the left. 

Squaring up the block is done by cutting off the excess fabrics as shown above. Having a rotating mat was also helpful in cutting and squaring up blocks.

After all blocks were assembled, I then arranged the blocks for the effect of ocean, sand, land, and lava.

The back side is 108" width fabric that reminds me of fireworks. Since the back was all the one fabric and I used that same fabric for the binding, I added a white flange on the back side to give the back more bling and charm.

Wall Flower

 I saw the Wall Flower quilt on Missouri Star's Instagram post back in February and I immediately knew that I wanted to do this pattern as a quilt-as-you-go. I even liked the yellow and blue batik fabrics that they had used for that cute quilt.

So I ordered my mini peel, Heat & Bond Lite Sewable, Kona White Ten Squares, Floral Wave Batik Ten Squares, Batik backing fabric, and 5" x 15" ruler. The ruler made cutting the 10" squares down to 5" so much faster; I love this ruler. I just followed the Missouri Star tutorial on Youtube for the pattern and easy instructions.

I used yellow thread for the yellow based batiks and blue thread for the blue based batiks to stitch around the petals. 

I quilted each block individually since I was doing a quilt-as-you-go. I had gotten half way through quilting the blocks when I realized I wanted to make the Prairie Flower quilt for my son. (Yes, I watch a lot of Missouri Star Youtube.) So, this project was set aside for three weeks while I worked on my son's birthday quilt. 

Second week in June I finished all the quilting, arranged my quilted squares, and stitched them together.

One inch sashing was used to cover the seams on the backside of quilt. Since I didn't want any additional stitching/quilting lines to show on the front side, I hand stitched all of the sashing strips down. Hand stitching is not one of my favorite things to do, but for this project it was a must do.

 

 I finished the quilt with the flange binding method that I'm enjoying to use on my quilts this year.