Trellis Crossroads

Firstly, thank you for all the kind comments about my Bordered Diamonds / Bordered Peacocks quilt. I'm a member of two facebook groups and both Celebrate Hand Quilting and Kaffe Fassett Collective members have been heaping on the 'likes' too. I nice to know that other people like it too.

Trellis Crossroads in Batiks

Lately I decided to try something different. I've seen lots of swoon blocks on the internet, but I don't really have any great desire to make a swoon block. (see the picture below)

However, I did see another modern block that I liked and it was Trellis Crossroads.

Most people were making it in soft pastel colours, but I started to think about some bright batik charm squares I bought about a year ago. I was originally thinking I'd make them into something simple like columns of flying geese on dark navy, but then I thought I could make some of them into a Trellis Crossroads block to just tryout the pattern.

a single block looked lonely

Well of course once I got going I had to make more. I thought I'd do 4 blocks, but I kept going until I'd used up all the bright batiks (and I even purchased a couple more fat quarters to balance up the colour distribution).

It's ended up being 9 blocks and almost 40" square and I'm stopping now. I"m going to machine quilt it with my new walking foot (thank you Judith) and turn it into a wall hanging. 

I liked this pattern because it left ample fabric for squaring up the blocks. However, if you are going to make one yourself, just remember to centre the square before you do your trimming.

Here's the photo from the book with the pattern, Modern Bee by Lindsay Connor.

Trellis Crossroads from Modern Bee by Lindsay Connor

I'm linking up with Lee at Freshly Pieced