So I snuck this one in on you guys. I had purchased a FQ assortment from
Stitch ‘N Quilt of a fabric line from Maywood Studios called “Stripey Tiger” a couple months ago. It’s not on Maywood’s website any more, so I think it’s fairly old (2010 ish?), but I thought it would be a good line to use for a quilt for Good Mews for a donation quilt for a raffle or auction item. It’s been sitting in my stash and taunting me and after browsing my MIL’s pattern library and the SeamedUP pattern catalog, inspiration finally struck with the “
Slide Show” pattern on SeamedUP from Atkinson Designs.
I was a little leery of Atkinson patterns since Yellow Brick Road is so popular but when I tried it, the experience was less than pleasurable (it was maddening!). I am quite happy with this pattern, though, so I will definitely use it again.
Anywho, here is Tiger Show!
When looking for the right fabric to use for the sashing, I was thinking of using Kona White because I was just not inspired by anything else. Then I remember my Kona Orange jelly roll purchase from the Sewing & Quilt expo! The orange in the Stripey Tiger fabric is a little milder but there are touches of this vibrant shade in the tigers. Admittedly, when I was piecing the center, all I could think of was “
AUBURN TIGERS ACK” because of the blue and orange combo.
For the border I just used Kona black (and had Halloweeny anxiety), and did straight line stitching in orange, blue. and yellow. I think the different thread colors keep it from looking too Halloween-y.
Here’s a shot of the FMQ. I used black thread because my orange thread is a thicker weight that doesn’t play well with FMQ.
The back I pieced out of leftover FQs (the bundle had 20 FQs, and I used 10 for the front and 8 for the back, and put 2 into the stash). I also had 4 orange strips leftover to stick in there as well, and a piece of black from the stash to finish it off.
Another 8.5 yards from the stash! Wooo!