Welcome to the Seaside Summer hop with Island Batik
A while ago I this beautiful bundle of fabrics
Lovely browns/purples and browns then greens and blues!
This was a quilt pattern I made for a quilt for Generation Q (green diamonds) a few years ago and I wanted to turn it into a written pattern and also changed it to be more of a planned scrappy version.
It’s now called A Bag full of Diamonds and until Sept 1st, I’ll have it as a free download here
I tried to do more custom quilting on this one, some echo quilting around the “diamonds” and then sort of a flame pattern, then curves and swirls on the side borders.
I used scraps of batiks for the backing and added a purple strip down the middle.
here’s some shots of it outside 
and with the green diamond quilt I still have from Generation Q
I will have this pattern for FREE here until Sept 1st
We’re also sharing a summer snack and I’ve shared this recipe before once on my blog but make these ALL the time, they are SO good!
Oatmeal energy balls.
2 cups rolled oats (we get organic ones locally)
1 cup raisins
1 cup crunchy peanut butter
2/3 cup honey
2tsp vanilla
roughly a cup of chopped pecans
maybe 1/2 cup of coconut flakes
MIX them all together in a kitchen aid, let the bowl sit in the fridge for at least 30min then take out and with a spoon, spoon up a spoonful and roll into ball and put in an airtight container (I keep mine in the fridge)
They are REALLY yummy!
Here’s the line up of bloggers!
Monday Aug 15 – Rain Forest
Tuesday Aug 16 – Red Tide
Wednesday Aug 17 – Sand Dune
Thursday Aug 18
Maria Michael Designs
Friday Aug 19 – Surf Squirt
Monday Aug 22 – Tradewinds
Tuesday Aug 23 – Equinox
Wednesday Aug 24 – Sea Canyon
Thursday Aug 25 – Sea Foam
Friday Aug 26 – Spoolin’ Around
Monday Aug 29 – Tide Pools
Tuesday Aug 30 – Wind and Sea
Wednesday Aug 31 – Spring Zing
Adventurous Applique and Quilting
Thursday Sep 1 – Splash
The Patchwork Pearl
Friday Sept 2 – Landscapes
I also have a giveaway!
a 5” roll of batiks and 1yd of batik
(US only)
Mine ends the 31st
and one from Island Batik!
Love your Diamonds and the colors you've chosen for it. And thank you for the chance to win!
I love this it came out fabulous..
Your oatmeal balls look delicious.
I would love to see the Diamond quilt done in bright jewel tone batiks very scrappy. It is a lovely pattern.
Great diamond pattern and I just love batiks!!!! Thanks for the recipe!!
I love your quilt! Thank you for sharing your pattern and for the great giveaway.
Oh what fun! Nothing warms the heart more than those delicious colors!
Both your diamond quilts are lovely – nice to see how different fabrics make a different statement.
Such a fun quilt!
Lovely quilt!
Love The diamonds and ty for the 2 color variations….Will half to run over look at pattern….. happyness04431@yahoo.com
Lovely quilt!
Beautiful quilt Bea and thanks for sharing the pattern!
Interesting quilt and snack. 24Tangent@gmail.com
What a pretty quilt and I can just imagine all the options with other batik colors! Thank you for the free pattern and the yummy recipe too!
I'm not sure if I like the quilt or the energy bars the best.
A unique design! Who doesn't love diamonds? 🙂
Love the colors of the fabrics and your design looks great. Energy bites sound yummy also.
I haven't sewn a lot with batiks yet. But they sure are beautiful. Karen
Lovely custom quilting!
Nice quilt – thanks for sharing.
It's always fun to see what you are doing.
Love the fan print shown that you are giving away!! Will have to try the energy balls, they sound good.
Beautiful quilts. Thanks for the lovely giveaway
great quilts!
Really beautiful quilt Bea! Thank you for the giveaway.
Your quilts are great! Thanks for sharing the pattern. The energy cookies sound really yummy, thanks for sharing!
Love your design!!! Very cool! Thank you for recipe..definitely will try!! 🙂 sounds Yummy!Thank you for chance to win your Give-a-way too!!! 😀
Pretty! I thing the version with pale diamonds might make a lovely signature quilt! Thanks for sharing!
Great diamonds! thank you!!
Nice pattern and batiks are my favorite fabrics.
Your no bake cookies look yummy!
Your projects are always so lovely! And the recipe sounds delicious.
I like your pattern and your quilting is really nice. I love custom quilting to much better than edge to edge quilting. Thanks for the giveaway!
Thanks for sharing the energy balls recipe!
Your quilt came out wonderful. I so love these colors.
Lovely quilt and great colors! nikilsend(at)outlook(dot)com
You've been busy – what wonderful creations! Hope to win some of those beautiful fabrics – thanks, Beth C.
Nice quilting on your quilt. Thank you for the chance to win some of that beautiful fabric!warner.dale@gmail.com
Love your quilt and the quilting!
What a fun design. The batiks do look like diamonds in the rough.
wow your quilt is so wonderful. i love the colors and different FMQ donethanks for sharing the recipe.
Yum! I love purple. Such a soft, warm feel to your quilt.I'm working on my very first quilt using Island Batiks–so far, I'm in love! I won a beautiful navy, green, grey and cream bundle for their SuperBowl giveaway a while back, and I'm using it for the Summer Solstice QAL at happyquiltingmelissa. I think working with curved piecing with the batiks will be easy!reillyr2(at)hotmail(dot)com
Bea, Lovely Quilt…and the cookies sound delicious!
Love your quilt
What fun! Turned out nice!
Love the batiks.
I love batik fabric!!!
The colors are very pretty in your quilt and your quilting is lovely.
Thanks for sharing your quilt and yummy recipe with us.
Nice quilt! Those energy balls sound yummy, too – I bet the grandkids would like those.
Neat quilt! Thanks for the recipe.
I absolutely love your quilt – the design, the colors, the quilting, and the back are all awesome!
Thanks for hosting! I love batiks!
How many times have we described the water at the beach as shimmering like diamonds? A perfect inspiration source, and a great way to reinterpret an earlier pattern…very nice job!