Today I'm showing off the
Island Batik fabric line called Geometric Symphony by Jerry Khiev,
and at the end of the post, there is info about a giveaway going on at the
Island Batik blog and another giveaway on my
Instagram page!
Geometric Symphony should be arriving in quilt shops now and is full of beautiful blues, pinks, purples, and light browns.
Since this challenge was all about raw edge applique,
Aurifil sent several spools of thread to match the fabric.
The first and hardest part of this challenge for me was coming up with a design. I love the look of applique, but I don't do much of it myself so I'll admit I was stumped for a while. I thought of applique circles to match the fabric and then my mind drifted to triangle flower petals. I wanted to see what that would look like so I got to cutting.
When I cut out the triangles I wasn't too thrilled with the sharp edges, so I smoothed them out. I added a smaller print on top and put them all on a light pink Island Batik background.
The flower centers were cut free hand, no perfect circles here. I used my Creative Grids 2.5 inch circle ruler as a guide for size, but I let the scissors do as they pleased.
Then it was time to add thread by using the edge color applique method
by Fourth and Sixth Designs. I used a
Schmetz universal 90/14 needle. I thought it would be fun to get a close-up of the needle as it's not often the needle is the star of the photo.
I used a different color thread for each section. Once I had all my blocks ready, I fiddled around with different ideas to pull them all together.
I settled on quarter square triangle sashing. I paired the Geometric Symphony prints with Pomegranate, one of the Island Batik foundation prints.
Deb Tucker's Tucker Trimmer Ruler helped trim these into perfect squares.
And then it was time for quilting.
I used
Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Bleached cotton batting. I had two big pieces left over and stitched them together for the perfect fit.
I did a little custom quilting in the sashing and a tight meander in the background of the main blocks.
I used more Aurifl thread for the quilting, a very light purple and a perfect dark pink to match the pomegranate fabric.
This quilt ended up being an interesting combo to me, with the random edges of the petals and circles next to the hard lines of the quarter square triangles.
This is definitely a pink lovers quilt.
Lots of Aurifil colors in this project The empty spool was navy colored thread. It had just enough to sew down the largest petals. The bigger spools on the left are the colors I used for the quilting.
I didn't use much of the browns in the top, so I put them on the back. I love how these three prints paired up nicely next to each other.
The main blocks are 12 inches and the sashing finished at four inches, making the final measurement 52 x 68 inches.
The quilt has passed Boonky's quality inspection.
Stop by my fellow ambassador's blogs today to see what they made with this fabric line.
And now for the giveaway info!
Check out
this Island Batik Blog post to enter their giveaway to win a fat quarter bundle of either Geometric or Floral Fun. This giveaway ends on September 21. Two random winners will be notified by email on September 22.
And then head over to my
Instagram post to see how you can win one of these Island Batik Strip sets.
I will pick a winner on Saturday, the 21st as well and send a DM to the winner.
Happy Sewing!
