The Great Outdoors Blog Hop + Giveaway!

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8 years ago

All of the Island Batik Ambassadors are participating in a 5-week blog hop! Today is Day 3 and my day to share my project from my "SURPRISE" fabrics from our first ambassador box that we received in February! You can check out my unboxing video here.

My surprise fabric line is Canterbury Manor! This is such a beautiful bright rainbow fabric line! I love color so much and I was able to incorporate ALL prints into my quilt project.

The best thing I find about the great outdoors is the amazing view of all the stars at night. I used my July Monthly Color Challenge block and made 9 blocks with black as my background color to act like the night sky. Each of the stars is made of 2 different prints. The diamonds are made from a multicolored print and I waited to get all of the bits together to make sure the multicolor was spread out across the quilt.

I ended up adding a 2 inch border around the entire outside of the quilt to get the 20th fabric of the line into the quilt.

For my batting, I used a cotton wool blend from the Hobbs Tuscany collection. The batting was light and easy to work with. I spray basted the quilt and picked a rainbow of different Aurifil thread for quilting. This quilt has so many color changes and I love it! I used my walking foot to outline each of the stars and draw stars inside the diamonds.

The quilt finished at 40" square. I love how bright this quilt turned out and it's a great baby quilt size!

So what's a blog hop without a giveaway?!

I am giving away four (4) 5" rolls of Island Batik fabric. Each roll contains 4 different fabrics that are 5" by width of fabric. The giveaway is open to US residents only. The giveaway is open until the end of the blog hop at 12am Central Daylight Time on September 5, 2018.

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Be sure to visit all of the other Island Batik Ambassadors to see their projects!

WEEK 1

Monday, August 6 – All A Flutter
Yellow Cat Quilts, Creative Blonde

Tuesday, August 7 – Birds N’ Bees
Ark Angel Creations, Patterns by Jen

Wednesday, August 8 – Canterbury Manor
Sally Manke, Powered by Quilting <-- You are here!

Thursday, August 9 – Eclectic Garden
Desert Bloom Quilting, Sew Karen-ly Created

Friday, August 10 – Vintage Morris
MooseStash Quilting, Devoted Quilter

But wait, there's more! Island Batik is hosting a GIANT giveaway for this blog hop! Be sure to enter on their blog and thank them for their generosity!

Join me again on Friday for Friday Foto Fun and on Sunday for the #365DayOfArtPBQChallenge! Link up and share your progress on your own projects!