Island Batik Ambassadors - Happy Galentine's Day 2018

Yes, you read that right.  It's Galentine's Day.  

You don't know what that is?  I didn't either until I did a Galentine's Day project for Island Batik Ambassadors last year!  

So....what is it?  It's a fictitious holiday created by the TV show Parks and Recreation.  It occurs on February 13th and is designed to help you celebrate all your female friends.

Island Batik was kind enough to send me some amazing red and pink fabrics with which to create this project.  Here's what I created.  Three stylized hearts in different fabrics.

I then stitched pebbles in the middle of the hearts and wavy lines around the edge.  My wavy lines have a thicker section every fifth line.  I used my trust Aurifil 2024 white thread provided to me by Aurifil in our Island Batik boxes.    

In the thick sections I added strings of pebbles.

 This was so much fun to quilt!  Here's the finished mug rug all ready for gifting today.

I hope you have a great Galentine's Day and Valentine's too.

And I hope you get to quilt today!

Suzy

It's Galentines Day with Island Batik Ambassadors!

Yes, you read that right.  Today is Galentine's Day.  You haven't heard of Galentine's Day?  I hadn't either.  It's a day to celebrate your gal pals.  What a good idea!

For Island Batik Ambassadors we were to make a mug rug celebrating Galentine's Day.

I decided to make a wonky woven heart using fusible applique.  I cut four round pieces and two squares with fusible on the back.  I used Steam a Seam 2 because it would stick to my fabric when I was arranging the pieces.

Then I had fun using a fancy stitch to do the quilting around the edge of the heart.

I also decided to sew t;he binding to the back and flip it to the front so I could use the same decorative stitch around the edge of the binding.  I love how it turned out!

I had fun quilting hearts on this mug rug.

And swirls on the other.

And since I was sewing with my Gal Pals at Quilter's Night Out what a better way to end the evening than giving one of my mug rugs to my friend Shawn!

Happy Galentine's Day everyone.

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I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy