Quick Strip and Flip Quilt

 Merry Christmas Eve!

I can't believe Christmas is here already. It has been a whirlwind of a month, but I was able to finish up a lap size quilt for this months Island Batik Ambassador challenge.

This month Ambassadors were challenged to create whatever they wanted. And that was a challenge in itself. When given all the choices, focusing on just one is hard. 

I knew I wanted to play with this precut. It is called Daisy May by Kathy Engle. It has such fun bright colors.

After fiddling around with different ideas, I settled on a quick strip and flip quilt. This quilt used half the precut so I have enough to make another one just like it.   The sashing is one of the Island Batik Foundations called Ghost.  The sunshine border is from an older Batik line I had in my personal stash.  It played well with all the other colors in this line.

The quilt was sewn and quilted with a Schmetz 90/14 universal needle.  I can't say enough good things about these needles, I was using them before I was an ambassador and have never had a problem with them, other than when I hit a pin, but that isn't the needle's fault.  I should really take those out before I get close to the needle.  I am glad to say no pins were hit during the making of this project. 

I had a large piece left over from this bag of Hobbs Heirloom Natural Cotton batting with scrim and it quilted up beautifully.  I love how it sticks to the fabric which helps eliminate puckers on the back.

I have just enough batting left from this bag to make a table runner.

I kept the quilting fairly simple and used the strips as my guide for long rows of loopy swirls.

It was a little dreary this morning at the park, but this quilt lightened up the landscape.

It measures approximately 52 x 60.

These fabrics are so bright and fun, I can't wait to pass it off to a special little someone.

Happy Stitching and Merry Christmas!

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Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange and Tree Skirt

Welcome to the first day of the last blog hop.  I am excited, yet sad at the same time.  It is always fun to see what everyone comes up with, yet sad to know this is the last hop. I have been hopping along with everyone since 2012, but time moves on and new adventures await! 

  I will still be following along with everyone on their other social media, so we can still keep up with each other and have show and tell. And with that said, today I want to show off my new Christmas Tree skirt!

It's not a cookie, but it is cookie-shaped.  That counts right?

This is similar to the chevron table toppers I have made but on a bigger scale. 

I used the 10-degree ruler by Phillip Fiber Arts, which gives 36 wedges.

The tree skirt measures about 50 inches across, and I had a package of Hobbs Cotton Wool Blend batting that fit perfectly.  It quilted up beautifully.

For once, I had this project ready well ahead of time—quite the achievement for me since I’m usually the last-minute sewer!  I managed to get it ready in time to enter the SC State Fair, and it won a blue ribbon! Yay! That's definitely some good luck to put under the tree!

And it passes quality control.  This year Avi is enjoying time at the bottom of the tree instead of in it, which is a good thing.  Less ornaments meet their doom this way.

As far as cookie recipes, these are my go-to when I need something fast.  The recipe is easy: preheat the oven, open the package, put them on the pan, and bake.  Super easy for those times when you don't have time and still want a good cookie.

And Santa eats them up!

Have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the last hop around the block this week! 

December 2

Just Let Me Quilt

Beaquilter

Quilt Doodle Designs

Songbird Designs

Quilted Delights  (me)

 

December 3

Quilting Gail

Ms P Designs USA

Just Sew Quilter

Words & Stitches

Selina Quilts

 

December 4

A Quiltery

Karrin’s Crazy World

Inflorescence

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Quilt Schmilt

 

December 5

MooseStashQuilting

Bumbleberry Stitches

Sew Many Yarns

Days Filled With Joy

Happy Stitching!

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Island Batik Dresden Blog Hop

Welcome to day three, week three of the Island Batik Ambassador Dresden Plate Blog Hop.

This month Island Batik Ambassadors are showing off their take on the classic Dresden Plate Block done up in the new Island Batik Fabric lines coming out now.

 

I got to play with Topical Bliss, a signature collection by Kathy Engle for Megan Best of Bestquilter.

You can visit these stores to get your hands on some of these fabrics.

Creekside Quilts-OR

Fabric and Quilting Delights-HI

Fabric Square-OH

JellyRollFabric.Net

Middlebury Sew & Vac

My Favorite Quilt Store-TX

I am loving this colorway! And it has sea turtles on it! A win-win for me.

I was given a half yard of each print to play with and had a good time rearranging and selecting prints for each unit in the quilt.  At first, I was going to do tradition circle Dresden plates, but after playing around with the layout I came up with the idea to separate my plates with some sashing. I love a good sashing!

I used Kay Buckley's perfect circle makers, along with my Oliso Iron to make the circles for all the cornerstone blocks.

They turned out so pretty!

I hand stitched all the circles down.

There are twenty five of them. 

I enjoy hand stitching, but after doing these 25 circles I knew I would not have time to hand stitch all the Dresdens, so I decided to machine stitched those down with a blanket stitch.

The sashing is made from two triangle in a square blocks.  This is one of my favorite quilt units.  It makes so many versatile designs.

I chain pieced all my plates and turned them with a small crochet hook to get nice points.

I used a 30 degree ruler to get 12 plates per Dresden and added an extra burst of fabric between each seam for a fun starburst and 3D effect.

I am falling in love with the Hobbs Cotton Wool Blend batting. It's so soft and fluffy and quilts up beautifully.

It was a pretty day down by the river for a photo shoot.

Splitting the Dresden plates into groups of three gave me six inch blocks.

 The cornerstones and sashing are three inch blocks.

With the borders, the quilt measures 54 inch square.

The piecing and quilting were done with a Schmetz 90/14 universal needle.  

The needle went through the thicker areas with no problem.

I did some simple custom quilting on this one.

The white background had an all over meander.

all the triangles and Dresden plates got their own little swirl along with the inner borders..

I stitched in the ditch around the cornerstones and left the inside of them open.

The back is made up of left over Island Batik foundation fabrics I had from other projects.

I hope you enjoyed my take on the classic Dresden Plate Block.  

For a closer look check out my YouTube Video:

Be sure to check out my fellow Ambassadors today to see what Dresden Plate pattern they came up with for this same fabric line.

Suzy Webster, Websterquilt

Sarah Pitcher, Pitcher’s Boutique LLC

Island Batik is having a giveaway,  you can enter using the Rafflecopter below.

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This week's prizes are a fat quarter pack of Shadow Blooms and Peach Blossom.

Happy Stitching!

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