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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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
Fabric 1 |
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 |
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Fabric 2 |
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 |
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Peacock Feathers | 64 |
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Binding Strips | 9 strips |
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Fabric 3 |
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 |
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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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