Green and Purple Batik Flag Quilt

As most of my readers know, I love to make quilts for special occasions. Mostly weddings, because it's something that the happy couple can snuggle under on cool days. This time I decided that the recipient, my dearest best friend, needed to receive one for a special birthday. We all are turning 30 this year......UGH! But at least mine is still a ways away. Considering this person has been in my life for over  12 years and in D's life for over a quarter of a century it seemed only fitting that he get a special blanket all to himself.

Months ago, knowing that his favorite color is green, asked what other colors he liked. I couldn't make a solid green quilt....well I could, but I thought that it could use some other colors. He told me greys, teals, purples. Pretty much anything in the cool family except navy. So I went to work shopping around for fabrics trying to go through all of my scraps seeing if I had enough to make the quilt from In Color Order. She had a great tutorial on this awesome pattern, albeit, a little short with some of the fabrics and I had to add additional fabric in the center blocks. I used batiks and a solid grey background fabric, with a fun overall green on the back. I think it turned out great and my bestie really loved it!

Fabrics Selections

Block Layouts

You will need:
12 print fat quarters
2-1/4 to 2-1/2 yards of background fabric (depending on your fabric width)
4 yards of backing fabric
2 yards of  90" wide batting
1/2 yard of binding (I used the scraps from my fat quarters)
Coordinating thread
Pencil, erasable marker or chalk liner
General sewing/quilting supplies

You can follow the directions listed in her tutorial here. I just listed the fabric and tool requirements cause I needed to adjust mine to make it work! I hope you enjoy her tutorial as much as I did!

Happy 30th Birthday! Love You!

The back embroidery!