Knots and Crosses Quilt + Turnabout Patchwork Book

Are you familiar with Teresa Mairal Barreu? Perhaps you've seen some of the fun videos she has on her YouTube channel?  That's how I became familiar with her work!

Teresa (a.k.a. Teresa Down Under) invited me to make a quilt from her new book, Turnabout Patchwork and to be a part of her blog tour.

This book has some really clever quilt designs in it!  Each quilt starts out in the usual way - with a stack of quilt blocks - but then you slice them up and then flip or rotate them and sew them back together.  

There are six different sections (one for each block technique such as the snowball block, shoofly block, etc) and each section also has variations - which makes a total of 23 quilt patterns.

Using the fun techniques in this book you can get some really creative blocks - as well as some cool secondary patterns coming out in your finished quilt.  

The blocks for my quilt started with quick and easy strip piecing.  Each block was sliced diagonally twice, rotated, and then sewn back together.  

I decided to add one more layer of interest to my quilt by using a darker shade of green for the blocks in the center of the quilt.  You can see it a little better when looking at the full quilt below.  The green prints are all from the Blossom fabric line by Christopher Thompson (Riley Blake Designs) and the gray print is a Riley Blake Designs basic called Kisses.

You can find the Turnabout Patchwork book here on Amazon, or here from the Fat Quarter Shop.

You can see Teresa's blog here - And on this post you can find the full list of the quilters that are participating in the blog tour.

Quilt Details:
50" x 56"
Pattern:  Knots and Crosses from Turnabout Patchwork Book
Fabric:  Blossom by Christopher Thompson / Riley Blake Designs (greens)
             Kisses basics by Riley Blake Designs (gray print in quilt)
Quilting:  Two Simple computerized edge-to-edge design

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