Blogger’s Quilt Festival — Lickety Split, a Modern Chevron Quilt

Over the last month or so I’ve been so inspired by a whole bunch of quilters who have been sew­ing up their half square tri­angle and fly­ing geese ears and using them to cre­ate new pro­jects.   I had a whole bunch of leftovers from sew­ing the sample quilt for my Down South pat­tern and thought it would be fun to see if I could cre­ate an ori­gin­al design to enter into Amy’s Cre­at­ive Side Blog­ger­’s Quilt Fest­iv­al.

I’m away from home at the moment vis­it­ing my hus­bands home town.   Cohuna (yep that’s really the name of the town!) is a tiny little place with a pop­u­la­tion of just over 2000, includ­ing the sur­round­ing area, in coun­try Vic­tor­ia.    I fin­ished bind­ing Lick­ety Split while I’ve been down here and then went out to the old but­ter fact­ory to do some pho­tos.   It’s a gor­geous old build­ing and I’m so grate­ful to Jenni at Fact­ory & Field for allow­ing me to shoot pho­tos there.   Jenni has a fab­ulous home­wares & cof­fee shop in the but­ter fact­ory which is fast becom­ing my favour­ite place to be.

Lick­ety Split is made using half square tri­angles and a few strips and comes togeth­er very quickly.   I man­aged to piece and quilt this baby sized quilt (42″ x 46″) in a day once I had all the half square tri­angles trimmed and ready to go.   Can you guess how it got it’s name???

I used scraps for this quilt but I like that the design would work just as well with any fab­ric col­lec­tion.   I also love that this design could be sewn with smal­ler half square tri­angles to cre­ate a cush­ion cov­er or mini quilt or, lar­ger half square tri­angles to make a big­ger quilt.  The pos­sib­il­it­ies are endless.

Also lov­ing how this beau­ti­ful old door was such a per­fect match to one of the Fresh Cut by Basic Grey prints I used in this quilt!

I quilted Lick­ety Split on my home machine using a ¹⁄₄″ echo all over the back­ground fab­ric and left the col­oured chev­ron wedges unquilted.   I love echo quilt­ing because it’s so quick to do and also because it gives the quilt such gor­geous texture.

Good luck to every­one who’s join­ing in with Amy’s Cre­at­ive Side Blog­ger­’s Quilt Fest­iv­al.    The quilts linked up so far have been amaz­ing and I can­’t wait to see more!

I’m also link­ing up with Quilt Story Fab­ric Tues­day, thanks guys for host­ing such a great link up.

Until next time,