Reflections Blog Hop

Welcome to my day on the Reflections Blog Tour hosted by Jennifer of The Inquiring Quilter.

This blog tour showcases the Reflections fabric line, an Island Batik signature collection by Kathy Engle for Jennifer.

Jennifer sent me a lovely stack of fabrics to play with and I couldn't wait to cut into them. 

I wanted to make a quilt with fairly easy piecing yet still have it look very striking. I went with half rectangles and half square triangles.

The main block is a 5-inch square cut from Island Batik solid black. It is the sashing and cornerstones that do all the work to create the stars.

The sashing is the 2.5 in x 5in Half Rectangle blocks and the cornerstones are black and purple 2.5 inch squares.  The half square triangles finish out the corners.

I had the perfect variegated Aurifil thread in my stash for this project. It matched perfectly with the colors of the fabrics and I knew the heavier weight thread would look fantastic against the black fabric.

I love, love, love this thread! It's so fun!

The heavier thread didn't even break once in my machine.  I followed the needle and bobbin thread guidelines on the Aurifil website for sewing with 40 weight thread and didn't have any issues.

I used a 90/14 Schmetz microtex needle and it worked fantastic. 

Be sure to head over to Jennifer's blog if you haven't already, she is giving away a fat quarter bundle of the Reflections fabric line. 

And if you are on Instagram, check out my post on May 15th for even more goodies to win during the Reflections Instagram Loop. There will be several of us having giveaways from May 15th-17th.

Later this month, Jennifer is also hosting the Broken Road Quilt along to make the quilt below.
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Below is a list of all the blogs participating in the Tour.  Make sure to check them all out!

May 1st - Jennifer @ Inquiring Quilter

May 3rd - Denise @ A Quiltery-For the love of geese

May 4th - Lisa @ Lisa Quilting Passion

May 5th - Suzy @ Websterquilt

May 6th - Andi @ True Blue Quilts

May 7th - Connie @ Kauffmandesigns

May 8th - Emily @ The Darling Dogwood

May 9th - Jane @ Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting

May 10th - Brianna @ Sew Cute And Quirky

May 11th - Leah @ Quilted Delights (Me)

May 12th - Susan @ Larkspur Lane Designs

May 13th - Brenda @ Songbird Designs

May 14th - Jennifer @ Inquiring Quilter — The Winner is Announced!

Happy Sewing!

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