My second year as an Island Batik ambassador means it’s time for my fifth blog hop for them! I love these blog hops. Each one is an opportunity to highlight one of Island Batik‘s new fabric lines. This time around I was given a line filled with beautiful browns. Here is my row by ...
As an Island Batik ambassador I have the pleasure of working with all sorts of beautiful fabrics and this new line, Interurban, from them is no exception. The challenge for the month of February 2022 was to make row by row quilt and I decided to design my own modern blocks for my quilt. The ...
I am delighted to announce that I have been chosen as a 2022 Island Batik Ambassador! This is my second year in the program and I am so happy to be participating again. As an ambassador, I receive a number of shipments of goodies throughout the year. In turn, I make a project each month based ...
It’s hard for me to believe, but it is the beginning of my second year as an Island Batik Ambassador. Last year was so wonderful and I am excited to be back making more projects with their beautiful fabrics! Each month Ambassadors are challenged to make a particular type of project. We ...
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 ...
In 2021 I was named one of Island Batik‘s ambassadors. What a wonderful year it has been. We were given loads of their beautiful batiks and other items from various generous sponsors. Each month we were given a challenge project. This month was something new to me, and, like usual, I fell ...
November marks the final blog hop in the year’s Island Batik Ambassador program. What fun I have had in this year. For this month we were asked to make quilts using their new collections of fabrics and the Storm at Sea pattern. We were asked to play around with this traditional block and ...
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 ...
Fabric scraps…I think it is a pretty good bet that if you quilt then you have lots of them on hand. I am always looking for ways to use mine up since I hate throwing them out. Learn how to make a scrap fabric quilted collage with this easy method. It is basically like painting a picture ...
For the tenth Island Batik ambassador project we were asked to make a project using one of the 2021 Aurifil endangered species color builder sets. I was delighted when I saw which set I got. It was the one with 3 beautiful tones of blue/greens. The hard part of this project (for me at least) ...
