Quilted Delights

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Adventurous Applique Blog Hop

Welcome to week three and day two of the Island Batik Ambassador Adventurous Applique Blog Hop!

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.

Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts

Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

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.

They were provided to me by Missouri Star Quilt Co. as part of their birthday celebration.

I will pick a winner on Saturday, the 21st as well and send a DM to the winner.

Happy Sewing!

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Saturday, August 31, 2024

Halloween Chevron Topper

August was all about Marvelous Mini Quilts for Island Batik Ambassadors

I decided to play around with the Mini Ten Wedge ruler by Phillips Fiber Art. I bought the ruler years ago and this is the pattern that came with the ruler. I don't think you can get the mini size ruler any more, but you can use the regular Ten Wedge and still make this smaller version.

I needed something festive for Halloween to put on a circular end table, so I pulled out some orange, black, and purple Island Batik Blenders.

The pattern starts out by sewing strip sets. From there you cut your angles and sew everything together.
Avi and Boonky are always around to give their opinion.

Hobbs Heirloom Fusible batting came in handy for this project.

Since it was small, I didn't want to quilt it on the longarm, so I used some Hobbs Fusible batting along with my Oliso iron to sandwich everything together.

The batting worked great and I didn't have any puckers on the back.

I quilted it with orange and light purple Auriful threads and used Schmetz 90/14 quilting needle.

The purple thread is showing as gray in the photo, but it looks purple and pretty cool in person.

Avi and Boonky couldn't wait to test it out for comfort.

The quilt is one inch larger than the challenge size, it came out to be 25 inches across. But it fits on the table perfectly.

Happy Sewing!

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Tuesday, August 20, 2024

It's a Jungle Blog Hop Challenge

Welcome to day two of the "It's a Jungle" Blog Hop Challenge, hosted by Joan of Moose Stash Quilting. Today I am showing off my Tiger One Block Wonder quilt!

These tiger panels have been patiently waiting for their day to shine.

With the help of Avi, I stacked six of them and cut them into strips...

And then into triangles...

And more triangles.

I even spliced more pieces together to create new triangles.

The spliced ones blended together pretty good.

I made a nice stack of kaleidoscope hexies and chain-stitched them all together.

I sewed them in batches so I didn't sit too long at the machine.

Then I placed them all on the design wall.

And started organizing them.

I did lots of rearranging...

and finally came up with a layout I liked.

Since tigers are orange, I quilted it with orange thread.

The orange thread blended great with all the colors in the panel.

I try to use all the hexagons I get from the panel.

To me, using all the hexagons is a fun challenge when making One Block Wonder Quilts.

Sometimes it takes longer to figure out where some of the odd blocks go, but I usually find a spot.

I have a few favorite blocks. This bird block turned out fantastic.

I love the several eye blocks.

This bright pink block was one of a kind and stands out more than the rest, but I really like it.

There are lots of fun blocks in this one.

The flamingo legs turned out pretty funny to me.

When adding the main panel in the center, I kept the top and bottom hexagons whole. This meant I had to do a little hand stitching to keep them from flipping up.

I did some custom quilting in the main panel and then did an all-over swirl meander in all the hexagons.

It was fun to "draw" all over the quilt with the thread.

I used up several of my green prints from my stash for the backing.

This is my thirteenth One Block Wonder Quilt. I really enjoy the process of creating a puzzle without quite knowing what it's supposed to look like till the end.