Hachi Quilt with Ukrainian Blue and Yellow Blocks

A couple of months ago O’Sewpersonal Sewing Center offered one of their weekly “colorwheel” Facebook sales bundles in Ukrainian blue and yellow. Their colorwheels contain 8 fat quarters that are somehow related, coordinated or are from a single fabric line. I decided to purchase one and use it to make a quilt.

I added the sunflowers and the stork fabric (fortuitously found on Spoonflower.com) which are Ukrainian favorites, as well as some more blues and yellows from my stash. This is another of the Japanese Hachi style quilts adding to the collection of Hachi quilts that I’ve made this year. The storks are, of course, the “unexpected visitors” in this quilt! (Look back at my November 4, 2021 post to read more about Hachi quilts).

The quilt has simple linear quilting which follow the quilt blocks. I hand quilted around the large stork near the center of the quilt to highlight it. It puffs out a bit from the quilt, which I really like. The backing fabric is bright yellow solid.

Hand Quilting around the stork

This quilt will eventually go to a Ukrainian refugee. I hope it gives them some happiness and hope.

Aqua Batik Hachi Style Quilt

Here’s another Hachi style quilt. This one was made as part of a project for our quilt guild.

If you’ve been following my blog recently you’ll know that Hachi style quilts always have an “unexpected visitor”. In this quilt, the visitor is readily apparent but not out of character with the either the quilt’s fabrics nor the design. The unexpected visitor in this quilt is the dark gold blocks. They do just what they are supposed to do—add a pop of color and add visual interest to the quilt.

The full length blue band is 4 inches wide, one of the dimensions allowed in a Hachi style quilt. I needed to add it to get the quilt to the requested width of at least 60 inches wide and 72 inches long.

If you are a new visitor to my blog, and want to learn more about Hachi style quilts, check out my post from November 4, 2021. This is my 4th Hachi style quilt in the past few months. The 8 inch blocks are quick to piece but offer endless design options. I’d had this a stack of batik fat quarters in my stash for several years never found a quilt pattern I wanted to make using them. But they were perfect for this project!

Urban Allotment Hachi Style Quilt

This is my Urban Allotment Quilt. I made it for my neighbors who created a rather unique little vegetable garden in their front yard. They are moving out of the city and will have lots of room for a really big garden on their new property. But this quilt will be a reminder of their little urban garden, which somehow, our neighborhood ground hog never found. One of life’s great mysteries!

I choose the grey borders because their garden is a cluster of round, raised bed, bordered by large rocks.

The rock surrounded raised beds on a snowy day.

I used the Bernina #4 stitch, increasing the stitch length to 2.5 to create the texture in the borders.

This is another quilt in the Japanese Hachi style. The unexpected guests are the chickens! They may be expected on a farm, but clearly not IN the vegetable patch!

The large blueberry print, the cherries and the sugar snap prints are all part of my Dogs at the Farmer’s Market Spoonflower Collection. And the backing of this quilt is the Dogs at the Farmer’s Market feature fabric. The Farmer’s Market is a major event in our urban village, and the print has 2 dogs who they know. More reminders of our neighborhood when they are at their new place!

Here’s the quilt back.

Back in 2015, I made another quilt using the Dogs at my Farmer’s Market Market, fussy cutting the fabrics to make the quilt blocks. This new quilt is very different and it was fun to use the fabrics in a new way.