In January the Island Batik Ambassadors posted about place mats and it reminded me I wanted to show you the ones my sister Jody Warner made using some beautiful blue Island Batik fabrics
I love what she did with a variety of colors and scraps! The colors look great in her house.
The winner of my drawing from the Create for a Cause is Quilting Tangent. She has been contacted and the fabrics are on their way!
Today is the day for me to post my project for the Create for a Cause Blog Hop with the Island Batik Ambassadors. For my creation I used the Painted Blossoms Fabric Collection from Island Batik designed by Kathy Engle for Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs.
Aren't these lovely fabrics? I was able to use the whole collection in the quilt.
It is always a challenge to design something with so many fabrics. In many ways it's like designing a scrap quilt. For this quilt I first saw a photo of a quilt on Pinterest that was a scrappy quilt- but all in red and white fabrics. Very pretty! But that pattern used selections of light and dark reds- half the block in dark red and half in light red. I wouldn't be able to do that with this collection.
So I took the design and made each of the blocks one color and the center blocks all one color and the pinwheels one color. That was nice and scrappy and I could use all the fabrics.
Then I thought, why don't I cut the center block on the diagonal and use two colors for the center? I could use more colors this way. Wow, I love what that did! Now I had a nice secondary design of squares on the diagonal. It is always fun to take a block and play around with it and see what you come up with. It may surprise and delight you!
The second part of our challenge was to decide on a non-profit that we would like to give our quilt to. I chose Camp Alexander Mack in Milford Indiana.
This is our church camp that has a wonderful facility and provides many programs for children thru adults during the year. Unfortunately with COVID, almost all programing was shut down this year. Every year there is a festival and auction in October to support the Camp and I usually donate a quilt or two. This past year they weren't able to have the Festival, but did have an online auction. I am donating this quilt and hope we can have the Festival in person this Oct.
On the back of the quilt I spelled out CAMP MACK in bold letters.
Here's a funny story that wasn't so funny at the time. I prewashed the fabrics for this quilt as I know it will be washed often in it's life. I washed the fabrics, dried and ironed them and got busy cutting and sewing the blocks. What a surprise I had the next time I went to do laundry and found one of the fabrics flattened against the wall of the washer! All my blocks were already sewn! Well, I hadn't done the lettering on the back yet, so I decided to add the pretty teal fabric to both sides of the words. I think it looks great and can now say I did use all the fabrics in the quilt!
I used Island Batik Painted Blossoms Collection, Hobbs Premium Cotton Batting and Schmetz Microtex Chrome Professional Grade Needles and Aurifil Thread in making the quilt.
Disclaimer: all the fabrics, thread, batting and needles for this project were supplied to me thru the Island Batik Ambassador program
Island Batik is having another great drawing. This time there are two drawings- for 2 1/2" strip packs of either Painted Blossoms or Starry Night. Be sure and go to their website and enter.
I am having a drawing of a selection of 44 half square triangles (4 1/5" F) and 4 light colored blocks 9" x 10" of the Painted Blossom Collection. Leave a comment below to be entered in the drawing. Drawing is for USA only due to shipping. Winner will be drawn thru Random.org at the end of the Blog Hop. Please make sure that I can contact you if you are a winner.
Here are the blog posts for this coming week of the Create for a Cause Blog Hop with Island Batik Ambassadors. My post is set for tomorrow!
February 15:
February 16:
February 17:
February 18:
February 19:
End of Blog Hop and Round-Up
Below are the Ambassadors posting this week
February 8:
February 9:
February 10:
February 11:
February 12:
Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway
Be sure and check out all the great projects.
Island Batik also has a fantastic fabric drawing this week - Mystery bundles!
Go to the Island Batik Blog to enter
To celebrate the launch of the Blog Hop, this week Island Batik is giving away two Fat Quarter packs of the complete Island Batik Citrus Sun collection by Kathy Engle - visit Island Batik to sign up!
Every Friday of the three week Hop Island Batik will post round-ups of the projects and give away other bundles of fabric that were featured during the week. Don't forget to sign up each week. Many Ambassadors will also be having their own give-a-ways.
Here is a list of the stops along the blog hop this week- be sure and stop in!
February 1:
February 2:
February 3:
February 4:
February 5:
Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway
My day on the hop is the 15th- don't miss it!
This month is the start of the 2021 year for the Island Batik Ambassadors. The challenge for January was to make a set of placemats. The Ambassadors came up with some fantastic and creative place mats you will want to see.
Also this month the Ambassadors have been posting their unboxing videos of all the fabric and supplies we will be working with the next 6 months.
Here are the Ambassadors and their blogs- be sure and check them out!
Today is the day I can finally show you what came in the first Island Batik Boxes for the 2021 Island Batik Ambassador program. Island Batik and the sponsors Hobbs Batting and Aurifil Thread, Accuquilt Go! and Schmetz Needles all supply the Ambassadors with product to make projects for the year.
The boxes came a few days after Christmas- it was like Christmas all over again!
Below is a video of what was in the boxes. Be sure to look at the photos that are listed after the video to get a better view of things.
Island Batik sent such lovely fabrics to work with -
The collection called Farm Fresh by Kathy Engle in a 10" stack package, along with a light and a dark coordinating fabric. This is a Winter collection that will be in shops in May.
