Flight Club with Ketan by Banyan Batiks

I know I may have name dropped mentioned that I work at Gotham Quilts in Manhattan a few times. What I haven’t said is that they rarely, if ever have batik fabrics. I and my fellow employees have been hammering at the owners for years. A few months ago we were victorious! They ordered a whole shipment of batiks! We now have an entire cabinet devoted to them, and they are gorgeous.

You can check out the offerings here. To celebrate, I was given a bundle of fat quarters to make a sample quilt for the shop. Flight Club by Hunter’s Design Studio was the chosen pattern. Sam is awesome – I met her last year at QuiltCon, and I was smitten.

Flight Club requires 14 fat quarters and 3.5 yards of a background. I opted for a rainbow, of course. We went back and forth on a light or dark background for a while, but finally settled on black, and boy, was it a good choice.

Overall, I would say it is a great pattern for adventurous beginners. Since I’m an experienced pro, I skipped some of the marking of the flying geese, which was a mistake. When Sam says “mark your diagonals,” do it. Don’t be lazy – it will screw up your accuracy later on.

I intended to make the layout totally random, like Sam’s example, but I couldn’t. I started to put the random layout together, but it made me stressed. So, an easy assembly became more complicated, but the effort was worth it. I was so excited to get it onto the longarm.

Look at this beauty! I’m so happy with how it turned out. This is as random as I can get. I call it “lightly sorted”.

I used So Fine thread by Superior Threads to quilt it. The quilting pattern is called Modernish #1 and is available from Urban Elementz. It is a nice, loose, modern pattern. I just wanted something simple that wouldn’t fight with a busy quilt.

Quilt Specs
Dimensions
– 54″ x 68″
FabricsKetan by Banyan Batiks, Moda Black
PatternFlight Club by Hunter’s Design Studio
QuiltingModernish #1 by Urban Elementz
ThreadSo Fine by Superior in Black
BattingWarm & Natural

I’ve done other shop samples in the past. I made Skyline and Fancy Forest, which are currently hanging. I’ve also quilted a bunch of the other quilts. I love going into the shop and seeing my work all over the walls.

Happy quilting!

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