The November Island Batik Ambassadors Blog Hop is called Timeless Traditions.
To start the challenge for this month the fabrics I could use were sent in the July Ambassador box. They were wrapped as a Surprise bundle as the fabrics were not in the stores yet.
I received the fabric collection called Radiant Wings by Kathy Engle
The Ambassadors were given a list of Traditional quilt blocks and we had to choose 5 blocks to use in our project this month. I picked the following blocks: half square triangle, nine patch, Ohio Star, Friendship Star and flying geese.
This project was a challenge in many ways. First off, I was in a time crunch and was sure I couldn't get a lap quilt finished so I opted to make a wall quilt. After deciding on the 5 traditional blocks, it was a challenge to find a design that used them all together.
Here is my finished project - Pumpkin Patchwork 25" x 29".
As I was looking around for ideas the first thing I decided on was the border with flying geese and Ohio Star blocks. That used two of the required blocks. It is very unusual to pick out the border first, but that's what I did for this project!
Next I had to decide what to do for the center of the quilt. I liked the pattern by Lori Holt called Autumn Quilt Seeds. She has 9 different pumpkin patterns with quilt designs in the center of each pumpkin. I played around with one of the pumpkin blocks to get the remaining traditional blocks in it - Nine Patch, Half Square Triangles and a variation of the Friendship Star block. I am happy with the final design.
Radiant Wings has 20 fabrics in the collection and I used 14 of them. I also included a few pieces of lime green, brown and bright yellow from other collections.
I used Hobbs Tuscany Collection Cotton Blend batting for the first time and I loved it.
Aurifil Threads had colors that went really well for the quilting.
Schmetz needles are my go to in sewing all things and work very well in piecing and quilting batiks.
The little Oliso M3Pro iron is great for working with smaller paper piecing blocks.
Many thanks to Island Batik/Lumin Fabrics, Aurifil Thread, Hobbs Batting, Schmetz Needles and Oliso Irons for providing products to make this project thru the Island Batik Ambassador Program.
Be sure to visit Lumin Fabrics to enter the drawing for some fabulous fabrics and follow along with all the Ambassadors in this blog hop.
