Odelia’s Peacocks and the Electric Fan

Odelia’s Peacocks and the Electric Fan is a 3-color, 3-fabric quilt in a horizontal setting. It measures 81 x 81 inches. I was having fun just playing around with unusual blocks and fun applique designs in Electric Quilt with this quilt.

This design uses the  Inklingo 9″ Storm at Sea Collection and the Inklingo 3″ Clamshell Edge Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana and Artisan Spirit Shimmer by Northcott.

There are 2 Odelias in my family tree. One I’m actually related to. She’s a first cousin 2x times removed in my paternal grandmother’s mother’s line—Odelia [George] Perry. The other Odelia is the sister-in-law of a third cousin 2x removed. Really. I was obviously busy following leads in someone’s tree on Ancestry.com and wasn’t paying any attention to just how the people I was adding to my tree were actually related to me.  It happens.  You lose track.

The same thing happens to me in Electric Quilt. All of a sudden I have 50 different colorways of the same quilt design because I’m thinking, “I wonder how it would look if I changed this color?” Somehow I ended up with the Electric Fan quilt block in my Sketchbook of Blocks. Being able to make the block with part of an Inklingo collection made me decide to keep it and use it in a quilt design. Then I was playing around with the Auto-Border feature—suddenly there were peacocks. [Who knew?] Well, I had to use them, too. I modified them a bit to make them simpler. You could probably even machine applique them. That’s how Odelia ended up with peacocks and electric fans.

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Odelia’s Peacocks & the Electric Fan 81 x 81 inches
9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence		20257M-42 Shimmer Turquoise		20254M-54 Shimmer Yellow
Purchase and download:
Inklingo 9” Storm at Sea Collection		Storm at Sea Design Book		Inklingo 3” Clamshell Edge Collection
The Inklingo Handbook			Cheat Sheet (Download from website or print from collection)
For more information about Inklingo, click here.
Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection.
Fabric	Yardage	Shape	# of Shapes	Cut & Print	Page # in shape collection
Fabric 1 White		J Square 1.5″	500	25] 8.5 x 10.75″	9″ Storm: 34 & 35
		4.25″ Squares [For No-Waste Flying Geese]	65	See Triangle Tips PDF: Flying Geese Instructions	In 6″ LeMoyne Star Collection if you want to print them.
		G HST 1.5″	480	20] 7.5 x 10.25″ Pair with turquoise fabric, sew and cut. See Triangle Tips PDF.	9″ Storm: 28 & 29
		G HST 1.5″	260	11] 7.5 x 10.25″ [Prints 4 extra] See Triangle Tips PDF: Square in a Square.	9″ Storm: 28 & 29
		Border Strips	4	6.5″ wide [Minimum as some like to add extra for shrinkage in applique] Cut length of fabric to avoid piecing	//
Fabric 2 Turquoise		F Square 2.12”	65	5] 8.5 x 11.25″ & 1] 5.75 x 8.75″ [Prints 1 extra] See Triangle Tips PDF: Square in a Square.	9” Storm: 26 & 27
		G HST 1.5″	480	20] 7.5 x 10.25″ Cut but do not print. Pair with white fabric, sew and cut. See Triangle Tips PDF.	9″ Storm: 28 & 29
		Clamshell Combo Quarter	120 sets [Prints enough for blocks & inner border]	20] 8.5 x 11″	3″ Clamshell Edge: 28 & 29
		Peacock Body	32	Odelia’s Peacocks Border Applique PDF	//
		Peacock Feathers	64	Odelia’s Peacocks Border Applique PDF	//
		Binding Strips	9 strips	//	//
Fabric 3 Yellow		G HST 1.5″ [For No-Waste Flying Geese]	260	11] 7.5 x 10.25″ [Prints 4 extra] Before cutting apart, review Triangle Tips PDF: Flying Geese Instructions	9″ Storm: 28 & 29
		Clamshell Combo Quarter	120 sets [Prints enough for blocks & inner border]	20] 8.5 x 11″	3″ Clamshell Edge: 28 & 29
		Peacock Feathers	64	Odelia’s Peacocks Border Applique PDF	//
		Small Circles	96	Odelia’s Peacocks Border Applique PDF	//
Want to check my math? The Odelia’s Peacocks & the Electric Fan Math PDF is here.  Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF.  Linda’s Inklingo Triangle Tips PDF  Some of the shapes are available in other collections as well as the 9” Storm at Sea Collection. For example, the HST 00B & Square 00B Collections among others. See the Index of Shapes for a list of collections the shapes are in.

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