Green Tea and Sweet Beans

 I am up to date with the first two stints of Jen Kingwell's multifarious quilt pattern.

I did the top left block by machine - so many inset seams. I resorted to handsewing for the other two which was probably as quick.

The propellers were made from self drafted templates and machine sewn and the lozenge blocks from sew and flip squares on two corners of a rotary cut square.

Green Tea and Sweet Beans

is the rather unusual title of this this quilt pattern by Jen Kingwell who owns the Amitie Quilt shop  in Australia but whose patterns, fabrics and templates have been part of a worldwide hand sewing revival especially among younger quilters. 

My basket of initial fabrics from varied designers and manufacturers

 

Cover of pattern booklet

My first blocks: we are using our own drafted templates but machine sewing by and large. However the bottom larger block was a pain to machine so Trish and I will attempt hand piecing instead.

I am using mostly the same Tula print as background  to try and bring a bit more focus to my quilt. I am a bit obsessed with it and it was the background in my Fib quilt.