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 wild life ..I so enjoy watching animals. .. happyness04431@yahoo.com
We like to sit outside at night and look at the sky (not in the summer!)!
Love the great outdoors. Nature sounds in the country. The stars in the sky that city kids can’t see.(my daughter’s friend had never been to the country to see stars at night in the dark away from city lights.)
I love your star quilt – awesome
Love the stars on the dark background. Beautiful quilt!
What a gorgeous quilt! I love the way the black highlights the color in this!
Love the pattern
I love bright stars against the black. Well done.
What I love about the great outdoors are the mountains, forests and bodies of water (ocean, lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls, etc.)
Very cool that you used all of the fabrics in your lovely quilt. Thank you for sharing and for the chance to win.
Beautiful star quilt! Have a great day !
I love your quilt! I enjoy taking walks outdoors and enjoying all the colors around me. I definitely prefer to enjoy the outdoors when the weather is more moderate. I’m not a fan of cold weather, even though it can look rather pretty outside in the winter.
It looks like my comment didn’t go through so I’m trying again. If it’s a duplicate, I apologize. I enjoy taking walks outdoors and seeing all the colors of nature.
Lovely! These fabrics are amazing, that bright rainbow offers up so many possibilities!
I love the stars too. Yours are beautiful!
To me, you’ve represented not only the stars but the Northern Lights, the Aurora Borealis. I live too far south now to see it it, but love the memories of lying out in a field watching the sky flow with color.
It may be a great size baby quilt, but I think it looks beautiful on your couch! I love the use of the dark fabric to make the batiks pop. Thanks for sharing your beautiful creation, and for the generous giveaway!
What a glorious rainbow Island Batik sent you! I really love your star quilt, I love star gazing in the Australian Outback. The Milky Way is just breathtaking.
One of my favorite outdoor things are the trees.
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I love your quilt. The design really brings out the beauty of the fabrics.