I love this blast of colour!
It starts with this panel, "Daydreaming" from @northcottfabric a beauty by @fronddesignstudios.
One Block Wonder quilts are created from one swath of fabric, layered precisely, cut into slices then triangles, then sewn back together into half hexagons.
This is a process detailed by Maxine Rosenthal in her series of books on One Block Wonders. There are no y-seams in the piecing, as you construct the quilt by stitching columns of half-hexies together. A design wall (bed/floor/table) is a must for this technique!
For this One Block Wonder quilt, seven panels are needed. Six to chop up to create the hexies, one to preserve and insert in the quilt.
Such beautiful colours and designs! The beautiful background in the print creates gorgeous hexies.
Here is the quilt on the quilting frame - this on one my Bernina Q24 with QMatic.
Detail of the left side of the quilt.
Hexies on the right side of the quilt.
Part of the delight and challenge in a Panel OBW is flowing the colour from the panel into the body of the quilt created by the hexies.
Fitting the hexies around the panel is some fun quilty math and magic.
That streak of light flows from the pieced hexie at the bottom, up through the panel.
And one of my favourite things in this quilt is the flow of red down from the panel through the hexies below.
For the backing, I used P&B's Botanical print wide back.
The digital design is Natalia Major's Sunflower.
Hab 'n Dash Glide "Oriental Blue" was the choice for the quilting thread, a pretty good match to the Benartex "Sapphire" solid making up the border of the quilt.
The batting is Hobbs 80% cotton / 20% wool. My Bernina Q24 with QMatic recorded almost 126,000 stitches.