It’s finally my turn for the blog hop! Have you enjoyed the eye candy with awesome batiks so far? My interpretation of New Beginning was to take my FIRST published quilt and turn it into a pattern! (Picture from McCall’s) It’s a HOOTIE was published in Sept/Oct 2012 of McCall’s quilting magazine and I made …
It’s the beginning of the year and I wanted to show actual QUILTS I’ve completed in 2016 and had to use my 2016 list to help me First here’s a Boy quilt for Accuquilt Hello kitty quilt Snow table runner Christmas Round Robin quilt Planes quilt DP quilt for Accuquilt mini Island Batik quilt Ribbon …
I’ve been an Island Batik ambassador since March of 2014, that’s almost 3 years! It’s been SEW much fun! Getting new fabrics, playing with the fabrics and creating something fun, writing patterns/ blog posts about the projects and then I often gave the things away! (I don’t want this post to be a “look at …
Another project I’ve been doing is based on a tutorial I pinned a while ago, but I’ve actually made these stars in paper since I was little in Denmark. This tutorial is a flat star and the stars I made in paper were 3D I first tried one in scraps of fabrics like the fabric …
I’ve finished 3 more ornaments by using the tutorial from ornament girl I used the leftover batik strips from my box from Island Batik! On the first one I used this tan as the background star then used red and green but after the first border red fabric I used the red and green alternately …
The theme for this month with the Island Batik ambassadors is “winter Wonderland” I looked in my box and being inspired by another ambassador, I decided to use these left over winter strips too. Then I got the idea for coiled baskets using cotton cording. I started cutting the strips in half (It looked like …
I didn’t get around to doing October’s Yellow Cupcake block, so I did it now and also added two more, since the RSC16 is over and you pick your own colors for the rest of it (kind of odd to just do 10 colors, but oh well) Sonja and I picked black and beige Here …
I can finally show this quilt named Nighttime by the river I designed it for Island Batik, using their “river’s edge” fabric line It’s a Fat quarter friendly pattern!! It’s in two sizes: 57 x 69 uses 20 FQs and 69 x 81” uses 30 FQs (plus border fabrics and binding) I have it listed …
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I finished my project for Island Batik early this month! For this project I used the Wedge die from accuquilt and these lovely fall fabrics from Island Batik I sewed them into a table topper Then I got out my fall medley die and ironed heat n bond on the back of scraps and cut …
As you know I’m an Island Batik ambassador and one of my fellow ambassadors Suzy Webster just published this cool quilt book- Folk ark quilted Traditions, she’s made 12 appliqued quilts blocks (+projects) based on Hungarian embroidery designs! The designs are truly stunning! I got the book and then had to pick a block and …