I’ve been busy creating some new projects for the Irish Quilting Magazine this month. I can’t tell you too much just yet, but I’m excited to be creating some Irish themed fabrics to be featured in the magazine. There are lots of directions I could go in, and there seems to be a real gap in the market for Irish designs. I’ve decided I’m aiming for cute /traditional and will touch on some motifs that the majority of people think of as ‘Irish’, so expect to see lots of green,cottages and lots and lots of shamrocks – that kind of thing. But I will give you a sneaky peak at this one:
The most whimsical design I’ve added to this collection is of ‘white horse waves’. I’m unsure of when white crested waves were first referred to as ‘white horses’ but it’s a very romantic description and we get a lot of these type of waves all around the Irish coast line, they are perfect for surfing and the imagery was evoked in a very famous Guinness advert! So I’m hoping it’s an image that captures people’s imagination when they think of Ireland. I imagine quilters using this fabric as a border design, so although you are seeing it small here it, on the fabric each wave would be approximately 3 x 7 inches. But I’ve also designed the waves to be alternating, so this fabric could used in squares too as a feature fabric.

Let me know what you think!