Island Batik Quilt Modern Blog Hop

Our Island Batik May project is for the Quilt Modern Blog Hop! I have to say, as much as I have tried, I tend to not be a modern quilt maker, but I sure did have a lot of fun making this one!!!!

First, I had these gorgeous fabrics to use!! This is Glacier Bay by Kathy Engle. Aren’t they fabulous!!!!

I also decided to add a couple of other fabrics to this project. The greens were the perfect color for what I was doing. These beautiful fabrics are called “Large Netting-Pineneedle blender” and “Chameleon”. I also used a piece from a stash builder bundle in gold.

I had been thinking about this month’s project for awhile, and had something in mind. The first thing I did was to add Lite Steam-A-Seam2 to the back of the fabric that I wanted to use. I also used Karen Kay Buckley’s Perfect Circles for making circles too. I absolutely love both of these products!!!

Once I hade my fusible stabilizer in place on the fabrics that I wanted to use, I used a an orange peel (4 1/2″) quilt die that I had purchased awhile ago from Accuquilt, to cut out all of the orange peel shapes I needed.

Next I took a 42″ x 42″ square of white batik fabric and laid everything out and played around with it until I had it just the way I wanted it. Here it is during that process.

Once I had everything exactly where I wanted, I ironed them down.

The next step would normally be to applique these shapes down. But I decided, I would take care of the applique and quilting all at the same time…..right on my longarm!!!! I used my Handi Quilter Amara to free motion this project!!

First step was to secure all of those pieces down. Since this is going to be a wall hanging, I just did a straight stitch around the outer edge of all of the pieces that were fused down.

After that, I had the great idea of doing an echo around all of those pieces in a contrasting thread. I chose blue, as I thought that would look the best with this piece.

I decided to use double batting on this piece, as I wanted the quilting to really pop, plus I wanted this to hang nicely on the wall. I decided to use Hobbs cotton on the bottom and Poly-Down on top.

After I had the pieces secured down, I went about free motion quilting the background. I quilted in some faux leaves and flowers too!!

Once I was done with that, I decided that those applique pieces needed some quilting too.

I decided to do a faced binding on this, as I thought that would show off the piece the best. The faced binding was done on my domestic machine using Schmetz needles and Aurifil thread!!

Here is what a faced binding looks like on the back.

I am pretty pleased with this piece and can’t wait to hang it up!!! Here are several pictures of the finished project!!

I hope you’ve enjoyed seeing this as much as I did making it!!!

I want to thank the following companies for their wonderful products that were given to me to use for making these projects: Island Batik, Schmetz Needles, Aurifil Thread and Hobbs Batting.

But wait……there’s more!!!! Don’t forget to check out all the other Island Batik projects during this Blog Hop!! I’ve seen a few already, and let me tell you…..you don’t want to miss seeing any of them!!!

May 3:

• Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts
• Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese
• Brianna Roberts, Sew Cute and Quirky

May 4:

• Joanne Hart, Unicornharts
• Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights

May 5:

• Jane Hauprich, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting
• Pamela Boatright, PamelaQuilts

May 6:

• Andi Stanfield, True Blue Quilts
• Suzy Webster, Websterquilt

May 7:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

May 10:

• Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations
• Claudia Porter, Create with Claudia

May 11:

• Megan Best, Bestquilter
• Maryellen McAuliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine
• Jennifer Eubank, Archipelago Quilting

May 12:

• Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail
• Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

May 13:

• Michelle Roberts, Creative Blonde
• Gail Renna, Quilt Haven Threads

May 14:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

May 17:

• Sally Manke, Sally Manke Fiber Artist
• Elizabeth DeCroos, Epida Studio

May 18:

• Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs
• Jennifer Fulton, Inquiring Quilter

May 19:

• Mania Hatziioannidi, Mania for Quilts
• Janet Yamamoto, Whispers of Yore

May 20:

End of Blog Hop and Round-Up

And let’s not forget the giveaway!!!! To celebrate the start of Quilt Modern! Blog Hop, we are giving away a 2.5″ Strip Pack and a 10″ Stack of the complete Island Batik Forecast collection by Ebony Love of Lovebug Studios!

To enter for your chance to win one of the two prizes above, follow the simple Rafflecopter prompts below.a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway ends May, 7 at 11:59 pm PST. Two random winners will be notified by email on May, 8 and announced on May, 11. If the winners do not respond within the first two days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen and notified.

Until next time……Happy Quilting!!!