Island Batik Ambassador's Quilt Modern Blog Hop

I received the gorgeous Harvest Blue collection from Island Batik to make my Quilt Modern Blog Hop quilt with.  It has all sorts of gorgeous yellow and blue prints inspired by harvest time.

 

I decided that I wanted to play with circles to create my modern quilt.  So I pulled out my Accuquilt circle die and put fusible on the back of all my fabrics.  I then cut a 2, 3, and 5 inch circle of each fabric except the plaid I saved for binding.  Can you see the wheat, grapes, pumpkins, and corn in the collection?

Then I grabbed some solid white Island Batik fabric (the BEST solids to work with) and started playing with different layouts.  You will see I went through quite a few before I finally came to a final design.

When I started I was so sure this was going to be the layout....nope.

I like this, but not quite what I wanted still.

I love this idea, but I had too many fabrics for it to work as a baby quilt.

This didn't seem modern enough for me.

Finally!  I LOVE it.

All complete!  I quilted my quilt with Aurifil thread, Schmetz Needles, and used Hobbs 80/20 cotton/poly blend batting.  After quilting the project I washed the whole quilt with Synthrapol and happily sent it off with to the new mom to be!

For the circles I simply quilted around the edges.  All the white background got big swirls.

Plaid binding!  Gotta love it.

My son insisted that it needed to be photographed in his favorite climbing tree :)

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I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

Be sure to check out all the Island Batik Ambassador's blogs to see the fabulous new collections coming to quilt stores soon!

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:

Free Motion Friday - My NEW BOOK!

It's here!  My new book is ready!  It's self published.  I just finished my new show quilt called Gilded.  You'll have to wait a few weeks to see it.  It has 44 different designs based on paisleys, circles, and swirls.  To celebrate all that I turned it into a book!  Each page has a design with drawings of how to stitch it out step by step.  The page also has a photo of the design and a pattern you can try tracing from.

Here is a sample page...

And here are a few of the designs.  This one is called Film Reels.

I adore this one.  It's so modern.

If you are interesting in ordering a copy please send me an email at websterquilt at gmail dot com and I will send you a paypal invoice.  They are $15 plus $3 shipping in the continental US.

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Free Motion Friday - Feathers with Circles Part 1

Welcome to Free Motion Friday!

I'm working on a quilt that needs feathers with circles.  I decided to play around with that idea on my new Doodle Quilt.  Here's what happened so far. 

Circles inside the feathers...

Circles outside the feathers.

Circles on stems inside the feathers.

Circles in some of the feathers.

Circles going through the feather.  I don't like this one at all...

More exploration on this idea next week!

I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy