What’s a Twofer, you may ask?? It’s really two items sold for the price of one. But what I meant, you’ll see in a bit! So the theme for Island Batik ambassadors for November was TABLE TOPPERS! (Though as I was downloading the graphics for this I read it again and it was supposed to …
The theme (as you saw yesterday in my post) for Island Batik this month, is “try something new” and I was stumped, a few months ago I did buy a pile of books from Martingale on sale, and I was looking at my Island Batik box of goodies and I had a 2 1/2″ strip …
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Are you having fun so far? It’s the last day of the “dust off a quilt book” blog hop and I put my quilt on the last day 🙂 I had a lot of time to think about what book and pattern I should use and finally narrowed it down I really don’t have …
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Recently when I was sorting thru my batiks for the last Blog hop for this year’s ambassadors (Blog hop in January) I realized I had put a pack of 2 1/2” strips and matching yardage in the same box that I didn’t touch since I pretty much got the fabrics this summer. This fabric line …
I had this plan in my head of making this as a table topper for Island Batik’s theme for December ( whimsical and wonky) but after it was done, it’s not wonky and it’s not really whimsical either and I needed a blog post for today, so why not!? Remember this quilt I made in …
I have another finish to share! This bargello Batik quilt I blogged about here It’s made with 2 1/2” strips and measures 33×38” I tried ruler work on the bargello part, where I lined up a ruler 1/4” away from the corner and quilted a diagonal line, then the tricky parts were the “points” of …
After finishing piecing 2 secret quilts for Accuquilt, I decided to clean out my sewing machine and bobbin area and I found TWO dust bunnies! Good thing I got them NOW or they would have procreated and made more!! I then started organizing my quilt piles and put some more up for sale on my …
This month’s challenge is MODERN and we’re allowed to use ANY fabrics in box #1 including these SURPRISE fabrics, it’s a gorgeous bundle and I’ve already cut into them as we had to make kennel quilts for Island Batik, so I had these leftover strips and really, really wanted to use them Modern quilts often …
Uhhh I can’t contain the excitement anymore!! I’m in another magazine and this time on the COVER!! -well my quilt is McCall’s Quick Quilts April/may 2018 It’s called Chasing Rainbows (photo by McCall’s) It does NOT have a border, they just mounted that for the picture It measures 30” x 40” and is made with …
Since I finishing long arm quilting a customer’s quilt and catching up on deadlines, I had the time and urge to finish one of my quilts! and since getting the Island Batik box with Hobbs batting, I finished up this Jelly Roll quilt! I had unwrapped the Thermore batting and laid out finished tops I …