This month's challenge for Island Batik Ambassadors was to make a modern quilt and use any of the Hobbs batting that was sent to us.
I went with the Hobbs Heirloom Natural Batting with Scrim Binder. I love how this batting sticks to the batik fabric, I never have to worry about it bunching and puckering on the back while quilting.
For this quilt, I really wanted to use the Snowberry Strip Set that was sent to me from Island Batik, but I had a hard time deciding on a pattern. I couldn't decide if I wanted to go super modern with improv pieing and lots of negative space or just a tad modern with an altered traditional block.
I really wanted something to show off all the fabrics. I looked at all kinds of patterns on the internet (there were so many good ones to choose from) and even drew some of my own, but time kept ticking away and still couldn't settle on a pattern. It was getting close to the end of the month and I hadn't even cut one strip for this project! Ack!
Is there a word for Excessive Quilter Pattern Choosing Indecisiveness??
If so I suffered from it big time this month.
As the end of the month drew near, I ended up having to go with a pattern that could be sewn up in a couple of days so I went with my version of a Strip Tube Quilt.
I used all but the lighter colors from the strip set and added some of the gray mini dots yardage from the same Snowberry collection for the larger strips. My Strip sets ended up being 6.5 inches wide. This made nice size blocks, which made the quilt come together even quicker.
I am totally in love with this color scheme of Snowberry and the gray Aurifil thread I used for the quilting blended well with all the different colors of the fabric line.
The gray thread disappeared on the gray fabric and wasn't too over powering on the dark purples and blacks. It was the perfect color for this project.
I like how the placement of the squares created some fractured square diamonds.
This quick quilt has turned out to be one of my favorites. I see different patterns depending on the angle it is placed. It measures approximately 50 x 67
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