Island Batik Ambassador Drunkard's Path Challenge - Easter Candy

 

This month's challenge theme for Island Batik Ambassadors is Drunkards path!

I used the main drunkard's path block and separated it with some sashing and created what I like to call Easter Candy!

I pulled some Island Batik Stash builder rolls and some left over Island Batik prints from other projects and used my 3 inch drunkard's path rulers to cut out my shapes.

Three inch curves are a little finicky, so I did a mix of glue and bin basting.  I worked on them in my chair while watching a show and put them in a bag so I wouldn't loose any.

 

Sewing these curves was slow and steady, but my Schmetz 90/14 needle handled them perfectly.

When I laid them all out to take a picture, it really reminded me of all the fun Easter candy in the stores right now.

I put them on the design wall to make sure I didn't get any colors right next to each other and started sewing rows.

With the help of my Oliso smart iron, they were pressed nice and crisp.

This quilt has 80 three inch drunkard's path blocks and I had to do some double and triple checking to make sure each one was turned the right way.

Avi kept me company while sewing my rows.

For my batting I had the perfect size of Hobbs Silk Blend.  I haven't used silk blend very often, but it quilted up beautifully.  The quilt is super soft!

I quilted it with some fun lines and swirls and finished it in time to hop on a plane to go to my sons' college graduation.  I packed it with me and took a couple pictures of it across America as I drove my youngest son back to South Carolina.

It looked great in the badlands of South Dakota...

and the green of the Ozark Mountains in Missouri makes it pop.

I used some older Island Batik prints from my personal stash for the three borders.

The white background is also Island Batik.  It's nice to have all the fabric textures match, from prints to solids.

I found another fun Island Batik print in my personal stash that was a perfect choice for the back.  It wasn't quite wide enough though, so I split it down the middle and added some strips to fill it out.

The back is just as fun as the front!

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Sewing!

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Sunlit Garden Blog Hop and Island Batik March Challenge

This month Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to create anything they wanted...

and I wanted to help Jennifer of Curliecue Creations show off her new Signature fabric line Sunlit Garden by Lumin Fabrics!  The fabric is hitting stores now!

This fabric line was designed by Jerry Khiev for Jennifer and has beautiful greens, teals, and reds.  

There are 20 prints in the line and Jennifer sent me 12 of them to play with and Lumin Fabrics sent me the white batik to go with it.

I used three teals,

five greens,

and four reds.

There are a lot of pieces in this quilt! I didn't take the time to count them, but you can get an idea from this photo of everything cut out!  

To help make everything come out the perfect size, I used several of the  Studio 180 Designs rulers to help trim up my units.  

 

I used the Tucker Trimmer and the Square Squared rulers to trim up my center units. 

                                   

I went back to the Tucker Trimer to trim up my quarter square triangle units. 

I also used the corner pop ruler to trim the wings from my corner triangle blocks. 

And went back to the tucker trimmer one more time to clean up the half square triangles in my four patch corner blocks. 

It it was nice to have the lines on the ruler match up perfect with the angles in my units.

It made trimming super easy and quick.

I was so in the zone with this project that I didn't take a lot of pictures of my process, 

but let me tell you I love this mini Oliso iron!  I ironed the whole quilt top with it. It sits right by my machine and was my perfect companion.  

I did use my big Oliso for the backing, but my mini Oliso was the MVP for this project.  

Pressing nice crisp seams helped everything line up for perfect points!

It was also time to change out my needle for this project.  During my last project I hit a couple pins so I definitely needed a new needle for this project.  I put in a new Schmetz 90/14 universal needle and everything sewed out fantastic!

This is a big quilt.  The blocks are 12 inches and I have five across and six down.  With the borders it measures approximately 68 x 80 inches.

I love how bright and fun this quilt it.  The fabrics make these blocks shine!

I've enjoyed following along with this hop!  It is fun to see how everyone uses the same fabric in such different ways! There is one more project to show off tomorrow, so make sure to visit Brianna at Sew Cute and Quirky to finish up the hop, and double check the list below to make sure you didn't miss any posts during the week.

March 3:  Curlicue Creations (you are here)

March 4:  Freemotion by the River

March 5:  Sew Preeti Quilts

March 6:  Quilting Gail

March 7:  Kathy's Kwilts and More

March 8:  Quilted Delights

March 9:  Sew Cute and Quirky

And keep an eye on my fellow Island Batik Ambassadors, they will be posting their March projects all this month!  Check out the Lumin Fabrics website for a link to all Ambassadors.

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Sewing!

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