Websterquilt: Island Batik Ambassador's March Scrapbuster Challenge

Monday, March 22, 2021

Island Batik Ambassador's March Scrapbuster Challenge

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors were challenged to make a scrap quilt. I have this habit of cutting up all my leftover Island Batik scraps into 1 1/2" squares using my Accuquilt GO BIG cutter. I often use these in very mixed color projects. However, upon looking at the squares I had cut at the beginning of this project I discovered I had an abnormally large amount of yellow squares. I decided I wanted to make a quilt using yellow and red with a gray background. I have always loved yellow and red color combinations.

When I did the math on this project I discovered I needed just over 1,000 yellow squares. Here they are all cut!

First block all laid out! I had been wanting to make a quilt using the churn dash block for a while. I decided to make it up of all squares, but keep the traditional triangle corners.

This is how I laid out my yellow squares in pairs. I love Alex Anderson's Quilters Select rulers. When you use the back side with the grippiness to lay out pieces they stay still for transport!

With all these small pieces I knew I needed to pin, pin, pin....and then sew with my favorite Aurifil thread and Schmetz Microtex needles.

This quilt has eight different types of blocks in it. The red fabric provides a nice visual pop.

Now it was time to quilt! Oh did I have fun. In the outer triangles I made a series of large curls and then added feathers to them in some places. I used my favorite Hobbs batting of course. This time I used their 100% cotton.

In the red fabric I made large sweeping feathers since I knew it would be hard to see any intricate quilting. It's also a good way to go into all those points.

In the yellow spaces I did simple continuous curve all in the same yellow thread. This helped to tie together all the different yellow fabrics. In the center gray "x" I did a large swirl and the rest of the gray got a small meander.