Fragments: Jamie Siel's Floating Fragments, top completed

Fragments
(Floating Fragments pattern by Jamie Siel)
top completed 2024
78.5 by 65 inches
(pieced area 72 by 58.5 inches)
12 blocks

White is Kona Snow
Red scraps

Jamie Siel of Sew Brainy Designs has a delightful pillow pattern series she does for Riley Blake. Her October 2023 "Floating Fragments" pillow begged to be scaled up to quilt size.
Her description of it is HERE.
The pattern tutorial is HERE.

The pillow pattern makes an 18 inch block.
It is a sophisticated design, not random. Note there is an underlying structure of every other unit being a bullseye. 
Cutting directions are a bit fiddly as she is using specific color placement. I cut my scraps to size and made the units, carefully followed her block pattern for a sample block, then used that as a guide to place my units onto for the rest of the blocks. I wanted to keep fabric orientation consistent in the quilt, so my own added fiddliness was managed by using that sample block for patch and unit placement.

Block A

Block B

I used my 2 1/2 inch square bin for the bullseye units. I pressed all these seams away from the red square.
Cutting for the other unit: I am planning another quilt with 3 1/2 inch squares, so I cut a strip of 3 1/2 inch wide fabric, cut off a 1 1/2 inch piece and a 3 inch piece that I cut down to a square. Made efficient use of my cutting time.
(Then I cut remainder of the strip to 3 1/2 inch squares for that future project.)
For this unit I pressed first seams away from the white. I pressed final seams towards that insert plain white piece.


I used Julie's tutorial directions with a couple of changes to make it into a quilt.
One, I decided to make the quilt a bit wider than three blocks would yield, so I added one extra unit at the edge of each row in the four blocks that would be the right side of the quilt. These units were the same that would have been there if I made it a whole block wider.
This resulted in me making 8 of Block A and 4 of Block B.
Second, I maintained a pressing plan. As I made the rows for each block I pressed the the units towards the bullseye units so all rows nested. I waited with the horizontal pressing until column assembly.
And third, I added a simple border.

Layed out the quilt, and sewed the blocks into columns, pressing the outer two columns south and the center column north.
Sewed columns together (all row seams nest).

To aid stability and to let the reds float, I added a border:
Sides cut 3 1/2 by 72 1/2 inches
Top and bottom cut 3 1/2 by 65 inches 
I will bind with the Kona Snow

Jamie's wonderful design sized for a pillow.
Use my modifications to make a quilt at your pleasure.

Backing is from a bolt I bought over 20 years ago. I had used from the bolt in the distant past and thought there would not be enough, but there was!
A sweet winter scene called Blessings of the Season by RJR Fashion Fabrics.

As a nurse, I seek good nurse fabrics