Show Your Stripes Blog Hop

I was trying to decide what I wanted to do for Carla of Creatin' in the Stick's Show Your Stripes Blog Hop.  I was looking through my batiks and I didn't have something that definitely screamed stripes.  But I did have a curvy stripe print (you see it in the big flower) that I thought would be fun.  So I designed a tall skinny flower.  I wanted to hang it in a narrow spot in my hallway.  I of course went digging in my Island Batik stash.

I also decided it would be fun to put some stripes on the vase and use stripes as a quilting pattern.  If you look closely you can see how the block is separated up into sections of different background fillers.

Take a close look at the fun curvy stripes!

Stripes can be such fun. 

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Check out all the other amazing quilters on the hop!

Monday, February 22nd

Just Let Me Quilt

DayBrook Designs 
VroomansQuilts

Ms P Designs USA

Storied Quilts

Den syende himmel

thatfabricfeeling

Sew Many Yarns

Tuesday, February 23rd

Life in the Scrapatch

Stitchin At Home
Websterquilt

Homespun Hannah's Blog

Karrin's Crazy World

Quilt Schmilt

That’s Sew Kerry

SameliasMum

Annie's musings

Wednesday, February 24th

MooseStashQuilting

selina quilts

Quilting Gail
Karen's Korner

Kathleen McMusing

Food For Thought

The Joyful Quilter

Beaquilter

Thursday, February 25th

Becky’s adventures in quilting and travel 

Patchwork Breeze

Kathy Kwilts and More

Elizabeth Coughlin Designs

Cynthia's Creating Ark

Inflorescence: Starting to Bloom by Choosing Joy

QuiltFabrication 

Stitch and Quilt

Creatin' in the Sticks

Island Batik Ambassador's Create for a Cause Blog Hop

This month's Island Batik Ambassador Challenge is to use their fabulous new collections to create quilts for a cause.  I have been a member of Minnesota Quilters since I was in high school.  As soon as I saw this challenge I knew that I wanted to do this year's president's challenge for my charity.  Each year for our annual show (virtual this year) the president picks an organization to donate quilts to.  For this year's challenge Tummy Time quilts for the Nurse-Family Partnership was chosen.  Their mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable babies, mothers, and families.

For this month's challenge I received the Vincent's Garden collection which is a signature collection by Kathy Engle for Karen Overton of The Quilt Rambler.  It's a gorgeous collection that reminds me a ton of Vincent Van Gogh and his gorgeous artwork.  

These fabrics are just so gorgeous.

I decided to make two tummy time quilts since they are small and I wanted to show all the gorgeous fabrics.  I chose to make a bargello quilt and started by cutting 3 1/2" strips of the fabrics on my Accuquilt Go BIG.  I find the easiest way to make these is to sew the fabric strips into a strip set and then to sew them into a tube.  Then I cut strips off the tube.  Next, I separated the tube pieces into strips by undoing the seams where I needed as I designed the patterns.  I laid them out row by row to design the quilt.    

I decided to offset the strips so I didn't have to pin all the intersections.  It saves so much time!

Here are the two quilts I created for this wonderful organization!  I know they're not quilted yet.  I got sick last weekend (thankfully it wasn't Coronavirus, but I just didn't have any energy at all)...which resulted in them not quite being done.  Hopefully this weekend!  The of course were sewn with my favorite Aurifil thread and Schmetz Needles.  I look forward to layering them with Hobbs Cotton Batting too.

 

ISLAND BATIK GIVE AWAY - Two lucky people have a chance to win a 2.5″ Strip pack of the new Island Batik collections that will be featured this week: Starry Night, designed by Kathy Engle, or Painted Blossoms, designed for Kate Colleran of Seams Like a Dream Quilt Designs by Kathy Engle. Head over to the Island Batik website to enter their giveaway.

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Be sure to check out all the other wonderful new collections and projects!

February 1:

• Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts
• Mania Hatziioannidi, Mania for Quilts

February 2:

• Jane Hauprich, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting
• Gail Renna, Quilt Haven Threads

February 3:

• Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations
• Pamela Boatright, PamelaQuilts

February 4:

• Janet Yamamoto, Whispers of Yore
• Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese

February 5:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

February 8:

• Megan Best, Bestquilter
• Elizabeth DeCroos, Epida Studio

February 9:

• Jennifer Fulton, Inquiring Quilter
• Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

February 10:

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

February 11:

• Michelle Roberts, Creative Blonde
• Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail

February 12:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

February 15:

• Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs
• Joanne Hart, Unicornharts

February 16:

• Claudia Porter, Create with Claudia
• Andi Stanfield, True Blue Quilts

February 17:

• Sally Manke, Sally Manke Fiber Artist
• Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights

February 18:

• Suzy Webster, Websterquilt
• Brianna Roberts, Sew Cute and Quirky

Modern Mini Applique THE TOP COMPLETE!

When you forget to take a picture of the top before you layer the quilt!  But here it is!  I decided to put the blocks together by color group to create a wavy rainbow effect.

My design wall wasn't big enough...but I did the best I could.  It was fun laying them all out.

Sewn together they still were too big for the design wall. 

Now on  to the quilting!

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Modern Mini Applique Block 100

THE LAST BLOCK! #100!  Stay tuned for the layout...

This one feels Irish to me.  I'm not sure why.  Maybe because it's green?

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Modern Mini Applique Block 99

I don't know what this is?  Two dragonflies?  Z's?  Cut Z?  Only one more...

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy