One Collection, Many Interpretations

I think you've seen most of these projects at one time or another. They all came from the Regency Dandy Collection by Windham Fabrics (2007). I realized that I was able to get 4 complete quilts from the collection and make a sample block for a 5th. Let's look at them!

I made this fabulous Princess Feather in 2007. This was beautifully quilted by Leslee Evans of Maryland. It's a free pattern - just click that link below the photo.

Princess Feather - hangs in the Windham Fabrics office!

Here's a little info about the collection and where the inspiration came from (click on the picture to make it larger to read the words).

Then I was playing with the Palm/Hosannah blocks and came up with this:

The Palm Quilt. 10" blocks. 60" x 60" quilt

I also made a Thousand Pyramids quilt that appeared in Quilt Magazine back in 2007 or 2008. I had enough triangles to make a second quilt center. It sits in a box in my closet awaiting some border fabrics. Someday . . .

Thousand Pyramids

I still had some yardage left (I think I was sent one yard of each print). I cut out some diamonds. I was headed for 2 quilt ideas.

Regency Dandy 4-1/2" diamonds

 I turned them into jewels by cutting off a small triangle from one end:

Jewels cut from diamonds

I made this first quilt by adding some small cream triangles. This is stitched in horizontal rows with NO y-seams. The outer border is also a Windham fabric from the Raj Collection. This is going to my local guild's charity endeavors.

Lots of Jewels: 43" x 44"

Then I used the remaining jewels to test-drive another idea. I had enough for one block, which encouraged me to make several more using another collection. As you can see - there are no y-seams here either! I call this my Scrappy Jewels block. And I reached the very end of those fabrics.

Scrappy Jewels block: 12" high by 13-1/2" wide.

I truly loved working with the Regency Dandy collection. Hope you enjoyed seeing how different the same fabrics can look in different patterns!