I am in love with the new purple gradation hand dyes from Island Batik. I am a 2022 Island Batik ambassador and this is the bundle of 20 fat quarters that they sent me to work with. Aren’t these colors incredible? For my January ambassador project I made a gradient quilt, but I was lucky ...
I’d love to show you my 2021 quilting year in review. What a year it was for me! To start off, I was chosen as one of Island Batik’s 24 brand ambassadors. We got shipments loaded with fabrics and other products from industry partners over the months. Even after a year, I have to ...
It is time for another scrap busting quilt block. As you know, I love my scrappy projects, so whenever I can, I like to come up with fun and easy makes for you. This is episode no. 9 in my Youtube series called “Working Our Scraps Off”. Don’t let the name of the block fool you ...
Well, here we are in December and it is finally time to put our quilt together! I’m so excited to show you final results of the 2021 Stars of the Prairie free mystery quilt. I hope you all had as much fun as I did when putting it all together. If you are interested in this quilt, I still ...
For November 2021, the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to do a blog hop using one of their new fabric lines and the Storm at Sea quilt block. This was a super fun challenge for me. Before this challenge, I had never done this block so I was a bit intimidated. However, using tools that ...
In 2021 I chose to do a lot of large blocks for my Stars of the Prairie mystery quilt. I was not sure how I would like doing so many of them, but wow, do I love them. This is one of them, and I’d love to show how to make a large diamond in a star quilt block. The big center gives this ...
It’s time for a little spooky fun and this mini quilt is a perfect little project that you can put together in no time. It is also episode #8 of my ‘Working Our Scraps Off” YouTube series. Why not get out your favorite costume and learn how to make a scary eyes mini quilt? I ...
With a name like blueberry pie, this geometric block does not sound like it belongs in the quilting world, but wow is it stunning. It has a lot of half square triangles in it which means that it is right up my alley. I love half square triangles. This version is also a nice big block. It ...
It is hard for me to believe that I am already posting episode number 7 of my YouTube series “Working Our Scraps Off”. Time has gone by so quickly! I designed this video series to help me, and others, get a handle on our scraps. I don’t know about everyone else, but my scrap ...
The Island Batik Ambassadors made bags with a pattern from byAnnie for our September 2021 project. We were able to choose the fabric and pattern we wanted. I love the way my “Switchback” backpack turned out and was lucky enough to have a little bit extra of the fabric. I decided to ...
Well folks, we are in the home stretch for the 2021 Stars of the Prairie mystery quilt. We have done a nice mix of blocks sizes, but if you have been quilting along this year, you will notice that the last few are large blocks. That pattern continues with this month as we learn how to make a ...
