Island Batik Ambassador's Try a Technique Challenge - Part 1

I've been a quilter for over thirty years, so thinking of a technique that I hadn't done before was a bit of a challenge for me.  But thanks to the amazing group of Island Batik Ambassadors and their brainstorming skills I finally settled on a technique...Seminole Piecing.  I've watched my mom do it, but I'd never tried.

Seminole piecing comes from the Seminole Native American tribe and you can read about it here.

I started by picking some fabrics.  The left fabric is called Blackberry and it's one of my absolute favorite solidy batiks from Island Batiks.  The other three fabrics were from stash buster rolls.  I know the far right one is from the Fire Island line a few years ago.  I love the combination of these colors.

I started by constructing two strip sets like these.  I then cut 2 inch wide pieces at a 45 degree angle.

Next I figured out how I wanted to sew them together.

And then a lot of cutting ensued...

To get them aligned just right I put some tape on my cutting mat.  The first top piece of tape is where the black and green meet on the bottom piece.

The bottom piece of tape is where the end of the black fabric is on the top piece.  This method yielded very close and accurate results. 

Here are the first two sewn together. 

Now they're a set of seven.

The last step is to trim the outside triangles so you have a rectangle.....er parallelogram?

But it is a beautiful parallelogram!  Come back next Wednesday to see what happens next...

Be sure to check out the other amazing Island Batik Ambassadors projects!

 ISLAND BATIK AMBASSADORS FOR 2018

Adventerous Applique and Quilting	Ark Angel Creations
BeaQuilter	Bejeweled Quilts by Barb
Busy Hands Quilts	Carole Lyles Shaw
Clever Chameleon	Creative Blonde
Curlicue Creations	Den Syende Himmel
Desert Bloom Quilting	Devoted Quilter
Dizzy Quilter	Freemotion by the River
Gateway Quilts & Stuff	heARTs Creations
If These Threads Could Talk	Inchworm Fabrics
Inquiring Quilter	Kathleen McMusing
Kauffman Designs	Little Bunny Quilts
Living Water Quilter	Lizard Creek Quilts
Mania for Quilts	Mary Mack Made Mine
Masterpiece Quilting	MMM Quilts
Moosestash Quilting	PamelaQuilts
Patterns by Jen	Powered by Quilting
Quilt in a not-Shell	Quilting Affection Designs
Sally Manke	Sarah Goer Quilts
Sew Increadibly Crazy	Sew Karen-ly Created
Slice of Pi Quilts	Steph Jacobson
Sweetgrass Designs	The Quilt Rambler
Yellow Cat Quilt Designs	Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting
Whispers of Yore

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy