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...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a quilt that creates a secondary pattern! The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik. I love secondary patterns, and I tend to use them in all of my quilts that I design! I decided to wait until I got my second ambassador box before deciding which fabrics to use in this...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a modern quilt! Modern quilts incorporate the use of bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color, improvisational piecing, minimalism, expansive negative space, and/or alternate grid work. You can read more about the Modern Quilt movement and the Modern Quilt Guild page here. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge is to create a playful pillow! The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the Season’s Shade collection. I used my Heartbreaker block that I created in Lib Elliott’s class at Sewtopia as my main center piece. Read about that block here. I decided that my pillow needed a modern...
My favorite quilt block variation is the star block including the sawtooth star, the Ohio star, and really any shape of a star! This month the Island Batik Ambassador Challenge was to dig into the history of quilting and create a quilt inspired by the history. The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the...
This month’s Island Batik Ambassador Challenge was Try a Technique that was new to me! The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and are a part of the Season’s Shades collection. I decided to pick Fabric Weaving as my new technique! I purchased these Wefty Needles over a year ago but never had the courage to try weaving. Funny enough, I am...
This month’s Island Batik Challenge was Mini Quilts! The products featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik. Mini quilts are quilts that are smaller than 24″ square. Mini quilts are some of my absolute favorites to make because they come together super quick and give me a great sense of accomplishment! My favorite types of minis are barn quilt blocks. I...
Galentine’s Day is a holiday that started on the Park and Rec TV show that falls on February 13, the day before Valentine’s Day each year. The idea of the holiday is for ladies to celebrate ladies! This is the theme for our first project for the Island Batik Ambassador Program this year. Did you catch my unboxing last Friday on my Facebook live video? ...
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