Chain Reaction in Figs - Quilt Festival

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"Chain Reaction in Figs" 

I first saw this pattern at Quilt Market several years ago, and fell in love with it . . . more about the pattern here

  stacked coin design on the back

You can see this new line of Fig Tree fabrics featured on the designer's blog in this post

  

I love this pantograph design by Beany Boy quilts for Willow Leaf Studio, but I don't have a long-arm.  So, I had to transfer the design onto my quilt. 

For the first row, I tried tracing the pattern onto thin paper

then sewing through it

 but then I had to do this: (which took for ever!)

 so I decided to make a stencil . . . 

 the process went by much faster after that

 you can read about my adventures quilting it here

  since then, I have come across a system of using netting to transfer a design for quilting, eliminating having to make a stencil  (more to come in a future post about that)

The "Chain Reaction" pattern can be found in this book by Swirly Girls

quilt stats:

60" x 77" (washed)

fabric is Mirabelle by Fig Tree

negative space is Kona pfd bleach white

warm & natural white batting

quilting design is "Tickle" by Beany Girl Quilts

Pattern is Chain Reaction by Swirly Girls

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