Island Batik – January Project – Gradations

This year starts out on a wonderful note with a bundle of gradation fabrics from Island Batik. Mine was called Brilliant Blues.

While this was given to us in a fat quarter assortment, yardage is available at quilt shops.

I was ecstatic when I received these colors. They are just so yummy and calming!!! Here they are all laid out.

Many times, I look at my AccuQuilt to see what I have that I might be able to use to make a quilt, when I am in the designing stage. Using the AccuQuilt certainly does make cutting out your fabrics very quick and easy!!! I had just gotten the Tumbler block die, so I decided to put that to good use!!

After coming up with a plan on EQ8, I decided I would limit myself to only some of the blue!!

Once the quilt top was complete, I decided to use some of the coordinating fabric that I had been given to make the backing. I ended up using “Marine”.

So here is the finished top and then below is the finished quilt. I’ve titled this quilt “Making Waves”.

The finished quilt even had a scrappy gradation of fabrics for the binding!! It turned out wonderful!!!

And guess what???? I wrote a pattern to go with this quilt. To purchase the pattern, you can head over to my “store” page or to my Etsy shop for a PDF download. Not only is it AccuQuilt “Tumbler Die” friendly, but I have also included a paper template in case you don’t happen to have an AccuQuilt and would like to make this quilt.

Batting was Hobbs 80/20 Bleached Batting, which worked great under the white batik background fabric. And I almost forgot to say that I used my Schmetz needles when sewing this project!!

Disclaimer: All items were provided for me to make this product.

Please check out my fellow Ambassador projects. You won’t want to miss them!!!

Brenda Alburl ~ Songbird Designs
Megan Best ~ Bestquilter
Pamela Boatright ~ Pamelaquilts
Elizabeth DeCroos ~ Epida Studio
Jennifer Fulton ~ Inquiring Quilter

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts
Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for quilts
Jane Hauprich ~ Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting
Reed Johnson ~ Blue Bear Quilts
Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood
Denise Looney ~ For The Love Of Geese
Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights
Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack Made Mine
Anorina Morris – sameliasmum.com

Lisa Pickering ~ Lisa’s Quilting Passion
Claudia Porter ~ Create with Claudia
Gail Renna ~ Quilt Haven Threads
Brianna Roberts ~ Sew Cute And Quirky
Michelle Roberts ~ Creative Blonde

Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail
Andi Stanfield ~ True Blue Quilts
Sandra Starley ~ Textile Time Travels
Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations
Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt