The Great Outdoors Blog Hop + Giveaway!
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.
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
WEEK 2
Monday, August 13 – Safari
Sew Incredibly Crazy, SweetGrass Designs
Tuesday, August 14 – Spring Blossoms
Mary Mack Made Mine, If These Threads Could Talk
Wednesday, August 15 – Victoria and Albert
Bejeweled Quilts, Clever Chameleon
Thursday, August 16 – Wild Things
Freemotion by the River, Kauffman Designs
Friday, August 17 – Petting Zoo
Den Syende Himmel, Sarah Goer Quilts
WEEK 3
Monday, August 20 – Ocean Odyssey
Toby Lischko, Karen Overton
Tuesday, August 21 – British Rose
Busy Hands Quilts, Mania for Quilts
Wednesday, August 22 – Dear William
The Inquiring Quilter, MMM Quilts, Living Water Quilter
Thursday, August 23 – Dragonfly Dreams
Inchworm Fabrics, BeaQuilter
Friday, August 24 – Fur-ocious Friends
Quilting Affection Designs, Dizzy Quilter
WEEK 4
Monday, August 27 – Globetrotter
Pamela Quilts, Curliecue Creations
Tuesday, August 28 – Jungle Cruise
Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting, Little Bunny Quilts
Wednesday, August 29 – Lavendula
Carole Lyles Shaw, Masterpiece Quilting
Thursday, August 30 – London Calling
Quilt in a Not-Shell, Lizard Creek Quilting
Friday, August 31 – Spirit Rhythm
Steph Jacobson, Whispers of Yore
WEEK 5
Monday, September 3 – Sweet Tweets
Kathleen McMusing, Adventurous Appliqué and Quilting
Tuesday, September 4 – Whatnot
heARTS Creations, Slice of Pi Quilts
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!
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I love the night sky also. My father moved us into my great-grandmother’s house when I was in 4th grade. It was an old farmhouse out in the country that has been in the family for over 100-years. My great-grandmother had be the local school district’s Home Economics teacher; she made dresses for me as I was growing up. All the stars that you could see at the Yellow House with the outside lights turned out was my favorite.
My favorite thing about outdoors is seeing wildlife. I try to get pictures of the things I see, but they are never as fabulous as seeing them for real.
Hi Sherry! Wow, I love this quilt. The stars surrounded by the black fabric is a great representation of the night sky. If I were receiving this quilt for my baby I would be thrilled beyond belief. Just a fabulous finish! Happy Wednesday! ~smile~ Roseanne
Beautiful use of the batiks.
Beautiful quilt! I love the wildlife and especially the birds! Thank you!
The quilt is a nice rainbow of colors.
I love all the amazing colors you can find in the great outdoors.
I love seeing the changes in the landscape over the seasons. Spring and fall are my favorite but all the seasons are celebrated because each offers something different. Love the star quilt with all the colorful batiks.
I love your stars, Sherry!
Love your Quilt! It Sparkles!! Beautiful!! I love the outdoors changing seasons & colors… Thank you for chance to win your Give-a-way 🙂
I live in the country, and since we moved here, I love the rhythms of nature–the seasons, the changing vibes from morning to night, the way a stream is strong in winter and disappears in summer. It makes me more observant, and more connected to what is happening around me, and reminds me that so much more is happening than I am aware of, always.
My favorites of the great outdoors… Flowers, trees, all the wonderful critters. Nature itself. Night sky’s are great too, and a stormy sky.
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Love this quilt! The fabrics are bright and cheery, and perfect for a night full of stars. Wonderful!
I love mountains and hiking outdoors.
Your quilt is truly beautiful, and stars and diamonds, perfect showcase for those batiks.
I am a star 🌟 lover, real and quilts ones .this is gorgeous!!!
Blue skies and beautiful scenery!
The colors, the animals, the sounds, smells, feelings you get like in early morning, late evening. It wakes all your senses, if you let it.
This is a really beautiful quilt Jen.