Planes, Trains and Automobiles Blog Hop

Welcome to another stop of the Planes, Trains & Automobiles Blog Hop.  I want to first show you the beautiful Island Batik fabrics that I worked with for this hop - Florida Oranges.

Here is a photo of the Florida Oranges strip pack- it shows all the colors in the collection.
These fabrics will be available in shops this April/May- look for them!  If your local shop does not have them- ask them to carry them for you.

I used 8 of the fabrics from this collection for my quilt for this blog hop.

The quilt I designed was a child's quilt I called "Oh, The Place's You'll Go!"  named after the Dr. Seuss book by the same title.

Here is my little poem that combines the Dr. Seuss's title and the meaning behind the quilt.

                         Oh, the places you'll go!

                         By plane, train or car

                         Oh, the places you'll go!

                         Be it near or so far.

                         Oh, the places you'll go!

                         Oh, the sites you will see

                         Oh, the places you'll go!

                         Over land or over sea.

                         Oh, the places you'll go!

                         Have a wonderful time!

                         (and now at last is the end of my rhyme!)

Here is a photo of my quilt titled "Oh, the Places You'll Go!

Planes and trains and cars- just think of all the places you could go with these!  The vehicles are fusible applique with buttonhole stitching around them.  The blocks around the outside symbolize roads, and 2 rows of little cars are quilted on them-one going each direction.  Here's a photo of the quilting, although it is a bit hard to see.

(Come back to my blog tomorrow to find out what this quilt was before it became a child's quilt )

Aurifil Thread has a thread collection made especially for this line of Island Batiks.  The box includes 12 different colored spools in 40 wt. which I love.  They were very kind to send me a box of this thread to use with this project.  I had a lot of fun using them on this child's quilt.  The colors matched so well that I had fun using 7 out of the 12 colors on this quilt- different colors for each vehicle, button hole stitching, quilting, etc.

*You will see a photo of Tammy Silvers on the cover of the box of thread.  Tammy was the curator of this thread collection- choosing all the thread colors to match the Island Batik Florida Oranges fabrics.  She did a great job!  Tammy is one of our Island Batik Ambassadors- look for her projects in this blog hop.  She is also posting a blog today.

These threads were a dream to work with.  The colors matched perfectly.  I love the thread size and the fact that they are very lint free.  I also liked the spool and how easy it is to secure the thread ends to keep them from coming undone.  Check out these and other thread colors at your local shops.

I wanted to give my viewers a fabric giveaway of some of the Florida Oranges fabrics. Here is a photo of five quarter yard pieces of Florida Oranges.  Leave a comment below telling one of the "places you'd like to go" to be entered.  USA residents only for the drawing.

Here is the listing of the daily stops so you can continue your blog travel trip.  Each day lists the name of the fabric line and the blogs to visit. Be sure to visit Carol Steely (Fun Threads Designs) and Tammy Silver's (Tamarinis) blog posts today to see how they both used the Florida Oranges fabric.

Monday, February 15 (TODAY!) – Caribbean Splash
Bejeweled Quilts
Pamela Quilts

Tuesday, February 16 – London Fog
Moose Stash Quilting

Wednesday, February 17 – French Roasted
KISSed Quilts
Made In Scraps
Happy Cottage Quilter

Thursday, February 18 – Crystal Cove
Freemotion by the River

Friday, February 19 – Florida Oranges
Fun Threads Designs
Kauffman Designs
Tamarinis

Monday, February 22 – Coral Reef
Mary Mack Made Mine
Purrfect Spots Designs

Tuesday, February 23 – Sweet Georgia Peach
One Quilting Circle
KISSed Quilts

Wednesday, February 24 – Hollywood Hills
The Fit Quilter
Maria Michaels Designs

Thursday, February 25 – Desert Rose
For Quilts Sake
Lemon Tree Snippets

Friday, February 26 – Sea Salt Sandy
Tamarinis
KISSed Quilts
Moose Stash Quilting
Pamela Quilts
Bejeweled Quilts

Monday, February 29 – Jersey Shore
Beaquilter
Lemon Tree Snippets

Tuesday, March 1 – Tuscany Sun
Tammy Silvers

Wednesday, March 2 – Lavish
Freemotion by the River
Moose Stash Quilting

Thursday, March 3 – Fire Island
KISSed Quilts

Friday, March 4 – Tinsel, Holiday Happenings
Purrfect Spots Designs
KISSed Quilts
Moose Stash Quilting

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