By Margaret Brewster Willingham

Lay your head and dream of love

Fill your home with vibrant life and light with Illumination. Two great options with this medallion with it's bursting design. Make it as a 36" medallion or add the 10" borders to grow the medallion into a 56" lap quilt. Pattern has directions for hand and machine creation for each size.

Making by machine- if you carefully cut the shapes out of the center medallion, you just use these to make the appliqued borders. You won't need any more fabric or borders.

Island Batik materials used:

• The 36" x 36" hand example of Illumination uses the Wind & Sea collection- 111609283(top fabric), 111612265(background) and 111608286(binding)
• The 56" x 56" machine Illumination with optional borders, uses their Spring Zing collection- 111614336 (top fabric), 111610335(binding) and from Blenders-BE24-A1(background)

  finished dimensions: 36 in x 36 in or 56 in x 56 in

materials required for 36" x 36":

• background fabric:1 1/4 yards of light fabric*
• top fabric: 1 1/4 yds of medium or dark fabric*
• backing fabric: 1 1/4 yds
• batting: 1 1/4 yds
• binding: 1/3 yard
• for machine applique only: 36 in x 36 in piece of paper-backed iron-on fusible webbing

materials required for 56" x 56":

• background fabric:2 3/4 yards of fabric*
• top fabric: 1 1/3 yds of fabric**
• backing fabric: 4 yds
• batting: 64" x 64"
• binding: 1/2 yard
• for machine applique only: 36 in x 40 in piece of paper-backed iron-on fusible webbing, as per pattern directions

*when making by machine, you can use a dark material for your background fabric and/or a light material for your top.

**when making 56" version by hand, you will need 1 1/2 yards of top fabric to applique the borders.

Materials required:

• background fabric: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in)
• top fabric: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in)
• 3-colour applique and reverse applique version: add fat quarter or scraps for blossoms
• batting: ½ yard (18 in x 18 in) [for blocks, this is not needed until you stitch the whole thing together]
• for machine reverse applique: you will also need ½ yd (18 in x 18 in) of fusible webbing
• for pillow version: 16 in x 16 in pillow form