Websterquilt

Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Hearts on Fire Blog Hop

I was excited to play with hearts! It reminds me of elementary school when we got to decorate bags or boxes for Valentines day. I usually make heart animals with my students at this time of year. I googled heart animals and came across a heart dragonfly. It was so cute I knew that's what I wanted to make.

I took a 10 inch square of Island Batik in royal blue and found some yellow and orange scraps. I applied Steam-a-Seam 2 light to the back of the scraps and cut out a bunch of hearts.

It took me a while to figure out how I wanted to position the dragonflies nicely. I finally decided to make them next to each other.

I then stitched around the edges of the applique with invisible thread because the thought of changing colors too often was daunting.

For the quilting I decided on a simple echo pattern to emphasize the dragonflies. I an't wait to show it to my first graders.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

January 18
Creatin' in the Sticks
Life in the Scrapatch
Freckled Fox Quiltery
All Thingz Sewn
Den Syende Himmel
That Fabric Feeling

January 19
MooseStashQuilting
Websterquilt
Words & Stitches
Vroomans Quilts
Quilt Schmilt
Cynthia's Creating Ark
Songbird Designs

January 20
Selina Quilts
Stitchin At Home
Samelia's Mum
Just Sew Quilter
Scrapdash
Karrin’s Crazy World
The Darling Dogwood

January 21
Quilt Fabrication
Ms P Designs USA
Beaquilter
Becky’s Adventures in Quilting and Travel
Ridge Top Quilt
For The Love Of Geese
Sew Many Yarns
Quilting Gail

January 22
Just Let Me Quilt
Karen's Korner
Elizabeth Coughlin Designs
Quilt In A Not-Shell
Storied Quilts
Kathy's Kwilts and More
Homespun Hannah's Blog

Monday, January 18, 2021

Island Batik Ambassador's Placemat Challenge

This month's Island Batik Challenge was to make placemats. We just received our first box of fabric and supplies for 2021. Thank you so much to all the sponsors: Island Batik, Schmetz Needles, Accuquilt, Hobbs Batting, and Aurifil.

I was thinking about placemats and how they are traditionally rectangular. I decided I wanted to make them a different shape and try to make then a little more modern. I wanted a leaf shaped design.

I started with some gorgeous Island Batik foundations fabric (fabric available all the time) called Baja which is gorgeous blues and greens. I then layered it with my favorite Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly batting and started quilting away.

I had just taken an online class from Julia Quiltoff on Doodle quilting and was practicing my skills.

I love the overall look of the piece once it was quilted. It was hard to cut into, but I really did want a leaf shape.

I decided that I wanted to add some feather appliques onto the placemats once they were quilted so I pulled out my Heather Feather Border die and my Accuquilt Go BIG. I found a beautiful dark navy to cut my feathers out of and cut a piece the size of this die.

But then I had all this scrap that still had fusible on it. I use Steam-a-Seam 2 Lite and I love to use it up as much as possible. So...

I strategically placed the larger pieces to get more feathers.

The smaller pieces were put on my circle die to get some circles to add in.

Next, I made the leaf shape and then started playing with the feathers to make a leaf "vein."

Then I cut out the leaf shape.

All done! They turned out just how I wanted. I watched a video tutorial on how to put binding around odd angles and it really helped these come out just perfect. I used a single layer bias binding to help me go around the curves easily. This was stitched on with the amazing Schmetz Microtex Chrome Needles. They work so well!

There are a lot of fun ways to lay these out. They could go in the middle of the table for a centerpiece or be used as individual placemats.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Friday, January 15, 2021

Modern Mini Applique Block 97

I think this one looks like a windmill.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Monday, January 4, 2021

2021 Island Batik Ambassadors and a Review of 2020 projects

I'm super excited to have been selected by Island Batik as a 2021 Ambassador! Let's take a look back at all the amazing projects I did with Island Batik in 2020 in preparation for 2021!

It's such fun to be an Ambassador for Island Batik! Their fabric is the best batik on the market for sure. I hope you enjoyed this retrospective of 2020 and stay tuned for 2021!

Suzy