the ornament girl

3D challenge with Island Batik

This month’s “theme” for Island Batik ambassadors is “3D” At first I thought of a quilt that “looked” 3D, like my “Blue lagoon” quilt Or maybe some sort of 3D element on a quilt, like a pinwheel or a pocket? But instead I decided on something I’ve done in the previous years around this time …

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Winter Wonderland with Batiks

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 …

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Christmas in July with Island batik

This month’s theme is Christmas in July! I started off with these yummy strips Add a styrofoam ball and pins, I started making an ornament following the pattern here by ornament girl Here’s the finished result! I also added the canvas “ribbon” as my hanging ribbon Then I got another idea inspired by pics on …

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I think I’m an ornament girl

The other day I received a box of goodies from amazon 12 styrofoam balls, 54 zippers(more about those later) elastic and pins- should have bought more pins! A while ago I had seen these CUTE ornaments be made and found a great site: The ornament girl who sells pdf tutorials for making these cute ornaments. …

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