Showing posts with label Indigo Morris. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indigo Morris. Show all posts

Friday, February 8, 2019

Island Batik Ambassadors Mini Challenge Part 1

This month the Island Batik Ambassadors are making minis in our Magnificent Minis Challenge.  I decided to work with the Indigo Morris collection.  It's all a range of blues and it's just gorgeous.  There's a lot to this little mini, so there will be three posts over the next week showing you how it was made.



Since it's a mini, I'm working with tiny pieces, so I made myself this little viewfinder to see what the fabrics looked like when cut in such small pieces.  This fist fabric is kind of a wash, not much to play with in the pattern when cut so small.


Hmm...these tiny stripes are interesting in the shape!


The dots are fun!


The dragonflies are too big for this tiny shape.


This fabric will make some interesting lines.


I like the dots.  It looks like blueberries.


Okay, but nothing really interesting.


Some micro dots depending on where you cut the raindrop fabric.



So here's my start.  I have my pieces cut and I'm working on a lightbox that has a grid taped to it for aligning the pieces.


And it continues to grow.




Done with the top!  I'm in love.  It's so much fun!


I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy

Saturday, January 5, 2019

Sapphire Challenge - Part 1

International Quilt Festival Houston is having a Sapphire exhibit next year to celebrate their 45th anniversary.  All quilts in the exhibit need to be 50 inches square or larger and blue and white.  When my last Island Batik Ambassador box came in I found this AMAZING Indigo Morris fabric collection.  I knew right away that it was destined to make a quilt for the sapphire exhibit.  But what???


Putting the fabrics into a gradation.


Love the bottom fabric, but it didn't want to play nicely in the gradation so I chose to leave it out.


I decided to go modern since many of the quilts will be traditional.  I actually sketched this design on a corner of my notes during one of my classes in Houston this year.  Then I came home and got to work!  I call in "Whirligig." 


Now what to do with it???  You'll have to come back Wednesday and see.

I hope you get to quilt today!
Suzy