The blue and white design I made specifically for Malaika N. as she transitioned out of her role working with me at the Refugee Hub. She loves mid-century modern design, so I thought this could be a fun piece to make for her. I chose darker batiks for the 'background' (8 inch and 4 inch strips-- I like the offset, non-centered nature of how the finished facing comes out, but you could make it even if you like) and went with lighter fabrics for the 'diamonds' (6.5 inch strips) to get a bit of a contrast in the design. I then created strip sets, angling the joining of the units at 45 degree angles.
I took some time on the placement of the strips so that there was a good variety and as few as possible matching fabrics sitting next to each other, and then sewed them all together. For Malaika's I added a small navy border to square it all up, sandwiched it with a fun contrasting fabric and cotton batting, and quilted simply in the diamond shapes to accentuate the pattern. Made a binding out of a complimentary fabric and bob's your uncle!
I enjoyed this enough that I thought I would try making some other versions in brighter colors and different quilting. I love them all! Great way to play around with some favourite fabrics and putting rich contrast-ish colors together in a pleasing way.
Hope Malaika enjoys her version, and I will enjoy paying around more with this eye-candy of a design!