Porto & Beyond

It's time for a new quilt!  On the heels of my last improv experience, I was making eyes at the latest collections from Cotton & Steel.  As per usual, each one is pretty awesome.  But being a (semi?) reasonable creature, I was bound and determined to choose one favorite for a quilt I'd been cooking up.

Sarah Watts' From Porto with Love ultimately won me over, for its charm and its colors.  The bright cobalt, dusty aqua and soothing greens in this collection really speak to me.  After lengthy consideration worthy of the seriousness of the task, I selected specific must-have prints for my color story.  Frustratingly, this lovely purple bird print is only available in rayon, so I had to hunt around to find a substitute purple to satiate.  I also added some non-Porto, striped yellows to create movement in my quilt.  The end result is a 12-piece custom bundle.

This week I've been cutting up my "From Porto & Beyond" fat quarter bundle, some misc. blue and purple solids, and a few complimentary Cotton & Steel prints from my stash into half hexagons inspired by this:

A photo posted by Jodi Godfrey (@talesofcloth) on Jun 27, 2016 at 4:51am PDT

I know, I know, doesn't that look fantastic?  It's the first photo I saw of Jodi's English Paper Piecing project in half hexagons via Tales of Cloth on Instagram.  From a little research I think this pattern is called half hexagon stars or half hexagon pinwheels.  My immediate thought was that I could make the same pattern by machine working in triangular blocks that have one y-seam per block.  Do you see how?

I'll let you think on that.  Demo coming soon!