In May, 2014, I took a quilting cruise, something I’d never thought I’d get to do. But things just sort of fell together, and off I went. As a souvenir of the trip, I bought three small fabric blocks representing the three islands we visited — the same three that my husband and I had visited several years previously on our first-ever cruise! I also bought a little quilt hanger that looks like a cruise ship — very cute. 🙂 The blocks stagnated for a year before I finally put them together at the end of May, 2015. I found a gradated Moda fabric for the little borders and quilted flowers (hibiscus, sort of?) in those borders, keeping the quilting in the blocks themselves minimal. I chose the border fabric and the piping fabric in hopes of suggesting the sky colors in the blocks. The quilt measures 23.5″ x 8.25″.
