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lisasquiltingpassion · 2 months

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Island Batik Log Cabin Blog Hop

The first Island Batik Ambassador Challenge for 2024 is a Blog Hop, where we were challenged to create a log cabin quilt. This is an old favorite patter, and we could use whatever layout we wanted, while using whatever technique we wanted. I’ve created a few small Log Cabin blocks, but never a full-size quilt. We were given a line of the new Fall 2023 fabric bundles to create this quilt. The…

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stitchposts · 1 month

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This is one of the more ambitious pieces I've done for a bit, and I did it on an absurd deadline, but my trans dragon back patch is done! The project ended up taking 130 hours of working time to finish, using two strands of cotton floss for both fills and outlines. The base pattern was from my own collection and was originally from 1936.

#embroidery #op embroidery #dmc 996 #dmc blanc #dmc 310 #dmc 894 #aurifil 4647 #dragon #trans #transgender #trans artwork

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inquiringquilter · 2 years

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My August Island Batik Challenge

This month, the Island Batik Ambassador challenge was to make a miniature quilt.

When I heard the challenge, I knew I wanted to make a smaller version of one of my quilt designs. But which one?

After thinking about it, I knew that I wanted to make a miniature of my Broken Roads pattern and so I did!

To make Broken Roads Mini, I used a 2-1/2” strip pack from the Catching Dreams collection. It’s a beautiful collection but an older one. If you google it however you might still find a shop that carries it.

Now technically speaking, a miniature quilt isn’t just a small quilt. No, a miniature is a version of a larger quilt that’s been reduced in size proportionately. The blocks in my mini version of Broken Roads are just a smidge smaller than the original ones and the perfect size for using 2-1/2” strips.

Here’s the original version of Broken Road, made for the April 2018 Island Batik Ambassador challenge, Looking Back, Vintage Quilts Inspiring New Creations. You can read more about that here.

Often after creating a challenge quilt, I develop it into a pattern, typically for a collection debuting at Quilt Market. Here’s a version I made for the Spring 2019 Quilt Market that features the Petal Pushers collection. You can read more about it here.

As you can see, Broken Road uses a lot of HSTs. To make them, I used my new laser. Boy do I love it! Really saves time when making HSTs two at a time because you don’t have to mark the diagonal line.

I can attest to its accuracy. These HSTs are super small and the result with the laser was super accurate.

When sewing miniatures, it helps to press your seams open so there’s less bulk. I used my wool capper and my new wool pressing mat from Prairie Spirit Alpaca to achieve perfect results.

I wanted the beautiful fabrics in the Catching Dreams collection and my Broken Roads design to take center stage so I kept the quilting simple—echo quilting within the stars and swirls in and out of the diagonal triangle sashing.

As usual, I used my Schmetz Microtex Chrome needles to piece and quilt Broken Roads Mini. I love them so much when working with batiks which can dull ordinary needles.

I chose Boysenberry for the backing and created the binding by sewing together scraps from the left over 2-1/2” strips. I love using Boysenberry! It’s so wonderfully purple and I’m a purple gal for sure.

I used Hobbs Thermore batting for my quilt. Thermore is ultra thin and the perfect batt for wall hangings because it doesn’t pull at it the quilt with it’s weight. I also felt that a thin batt wouldn’t overwhelm the small piecing in my miniature. I think it performed beautifully.

Here are the quilt details:

"Broken Roads Mini" 24” x 24” Original Design, Based on Broken Roads Background: Light fabrics from the Catching Dreams collection Foreground: Dark fabrics from the Catching Dreams collection Binding: Dark fabrics from the Catching Dreams collection Backing: Boysenberry (Basics collection) Batting: Hobbs Thermore batting Piecing Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2024 (White) Quilting Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2510 (Light Lilac) Binding Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2545 (Medium Purple) Needle: Schmetz Microtex Chrome 80/12 Pieced and quilted by Jennifer Fulton

I had such fun taking my mini out into the urban landscape to take photos. Here’s a few more.

I mentioned a few products in this post. Here are affiliate links if you want to try them out.

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Disclosure: The products featured here were provided to me free of charge by Island Batik, Aurifil, Hobbs, AccuQuilt GO!, Schmetz, Prairie Spirit Alpaca

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farm2marketcreationsblog · 2 years

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#aurifil #Aurifil thread #100% Egyptian Cotton #quilting #sewing #embroidery

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fortheloveofgeese · 1 year

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Crazy Quilt Runner

What a great challenge this is for Island Batik. I have made many crazy quilts over the years but never with the amount of stitching I did on this one. In the first Island Batik Ambassador box this year I received the Color Builder Jade Vine. The 3 spools of 50wt that make up this collection of variegated thread is absolutely stunning, so pleasing to my eyes. For months I fretted over fabric, I…

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vincentbriggs · 1 month

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Oh, right, I meant to post some more pictures of the shirt I finished 2 weeks ago. It's not very different from my other white linen shirts, except for the fact that it's mostly machine sewn. I'd like to make more machine sewn white shirts, because I don't like to wear my 100% hand sewn ones for everyday too much, it wears them out too quickly. (I've had a few wear to rags without ever getting the chance to be in a nice historical photoshoot.)

I think part of the reason I hadn't machine sewn very many fine white linens before this is because I didn't have a good thread to use on them. Polyester thread is alright for the coloured ones, but I don't like to use it for white, and the only cotton thread I had was unpleasantly stiff. (Silk works, but it's expensive and I find it wears out too quickly in shirt seams.) But I recently bought a nice big spool of Aurifil 50 weight cotton thread and it's so nice and fine! Perfect for this sort of thing!

This shirt has hand finishing on the inside of the collar & wristbands, thread buttons and buttonholes by hand, and the bar tack at the bottom of the front slit is by hand as well.

I think the most visible difference in the machine sewn shirts vs. the hand sewn ones is the gathers. The hand sewn gathers on 18th century shirts are done from the outside with a whipstitch and it makes them so nice and perfect and even, and doing the machine sewn ones like a normal seam and pressing them open never looks as good, no matter how carefully I arrange the gathers. But it's ok for an everyday shirt.

I have no idea where the linen is from, since the several pieces of fine white linen in my stash don't have many distinguishing features.

#sewing #18th century #shirts #me

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cre8iveskills · 2 years

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Do you have an Embroidery Machine?

Are you aware of what thread weight you should choose for Machine embroidery?

Thread weights are an important consideration when machine embroidering.

Wondering what thread weight to use for machine embroidery? We have the answer!

Machine Embroidery: The Ideal Guide to Pick up Right Thread Weights.

Read here: https://www.cre8iveskill.com/blog/what-thread-weights-should-i-use-for-machine-embroidery

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ernestsewell · 2 years

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Just a quick update.

I finished this guy yesterday, literally seconds before dinner. I had made the top a couple of weeks ago but put it away to finish the bear claw quilt (which seems to be wildly popular and everyone loves it for some reason).

I used a batik layer cake called Perfect Ten by Batik Textiles. It uses all 42 squares. It can also use 13 fat quarters. I decided to quilt white on white for the background and used dark gray on the prints. In the star centers, I color-matched Aurifil thread to the square. I didn’t quilt the flying geese because they’re just so small.

I realized I somehow missed one little area above the yellow star with a red center (just to the right-center of the quilt). I’ll go back in and add some quilting tomorrow.

The pattern calls for it to be 60″x72″, but I put on a small strip border, so it’s around 64″x76″.

The pattern is called Brightly from Cluck Cluck Sew. Jenny Doan at Missouri Star did a tutorial on it recently, too.

The backing is half black and half charcoal gray. Since I had leftover strips from cutting off the extra backing, I decided to match the binding with the backing.

It’s a quick sew and fun to do. I always thought it was a chunky-looking pattern, and it is, which is why I quilted the way I did (color-wise). Any more contrast or busy-ness may have been too much. So I wanted the quilting to show, but not contrast or stand out. I think it works pretty well.

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bumblebeeappletree · 1 year

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When I started quilting in 2007, YouTube existed, but not in the capacity it does today. So I taught myself to quilt with a beginner quilting book, grocery store magazines and Love of Quilting on PBS.

All those are great, but not a great substitute for in-person learning or in-depth beginner quilting video courses like the one we created to cover all the basics that you just don't know when you get started.

So I made A LOT of mistakes ... like sewing a perfect 3/8 inch seam for a year-and-a-half because I didn't know the standard presser foot that came with my machine wasn't a quarter-inch foot.

I've compiled 15 of my top things I didn't know when I started quilting to amuse and possibly educate you depending on where you're at in your quilting journey. Plus you can see some of the first quilts I created.

I hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with a quilting tutorial later this week!

Courses we mentioned:

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Triangle Masterclass: https://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com...

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3 Ways to Sew a 1/4-inch Seam: https://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com...

Continuous Binding Tutorial (also includes quilters knot): https://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com...

Watch this Before You Go Buy a Sewing Machine: https://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com...

10 Things I Do That the Quilt Police Hate: https://www.quiltaddictsanonymous.com...

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somediyprojects · 2 years

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Move Forward in Love stitched by imogenxstitch. Pattern (€7) designed by Jacob de Graaf of Modern Folk Embroidery.

Finished! I made a few little changes to the birds 🤓 The charity portion of this SAL goes through the end of August, so it's not too late to grab it for a cause! 🏳️‍🌈 This charity design is by modernfolkembroidery , inspired by a quote from @officialmadamadam that I said during a collective Tarot pull in my first #FlossTube video. 50% of the proceeds will benefit LGBTQ+ youth charities in the U.S. I hope that as you stitch it, you weave the energy of these words into the piece, into your life, and into the world 💕

Pattern: Move Forward in Love: Pride 2022 SAL #MFEPrideSAL

Designer: Jacob, Modern Folk Embroidery

Stitched 1over1 on 25ct Black Lugana. Words in 12wt Aurifil (2021 white). A few uncalled-for DMC. Border in Threadworx's Bradley's Balloons 01154 .

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lisasquiltingpassion · 1 month

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It's All Up to You! - Hexi Quilt

The Island Batik March Challenge is “All up to You”. We get to choose the project that we want to make. I’ve decided to make two projects this month. This is the Second one. I decided to use some of the Island Batik fabric that I had left from a previous project. The fabric I used for the quilt was given to me by Island Batik, and is the Winter 2021 Collection, “Savannah” by Tammy Silvers by…

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platinumsonsews · 4 days

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Discover Quilting Sale – Fabric, Tools and Patterns Galore

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inquiringquilter · 2 years

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My July Island Batik Challenge

The Island Batik Ambassador challenge for July was to bring an early Christmas to someone in need of comfort. Quilts are just the thing to bring someone comfort, don’t you agree?

The other part of the challenge this month was to design a quilt of comfort using the BOB (Block on Board) die we received in our July boxes. We each received the Tree of Life die. We could use the die to cut all or part of the Tree of Life block for use in our design.

I love the Tree of Life block and always wanted to make a quilt using it, so my first thought was to use the entire block. To meet the challenge of breaking it apart, I used the half square triangle unit on the die to cut extra HSTs to scatter through the sashings between the blocks and in the borders, like leaves falling down.

I call my design Time Passages because it reminds me that time passes all too quickly and we should make the most of the time we have. I chose different colors for each of the tress to remind me that the changing seasons are a natural part of life and not to fear but instead embrace each season.

Next, I considered who needed comfort. Unfortunately, I know quite a few people in that category, but one person kept coming to mind as I sewed my quilt together. I haven’t had an opportunity to give the quilt to her yet but I will soon and I hope it brings her the comfort and love she needs right now.

I cut out Time Passages quickly, using my AccuQuilt Go cutter. With the BOB dies, you can cut out all the parts for a block in one pass through the cutter. Since you can layer up to 6 layers of fabric on the die, you can cut out six blocks with one pass!

When you’re making a scrappy quilt like mine it takes a bit more planning and sometimes you cut only one fabric at a time, but still up to six layers so it goes fast anyway.

Another thing I love about using AccuQuilt to cut out a quilt is the notched shapes. For example, notice the corners on the half-square triangle below. The notches help you align the pieces precisely, making sewing up a block as complex as a Tree of Life so easy!

Those notches were really helpful when I made the trunk section of the Tree of Life block. I shudder at the idea of piecing that section without them! Look how easily those notches made piecing this rather complicated block unit!

Notice also that I didn’t waste any time putting my new Prairie Spirit Alpaca pressing mat to work! Made quick work of pressing this unit completely flat.

To quilt my piece, I quilted the “branches” of the trees.

I free-motion quilted leaves in the border and sashing in order to emphasize what the falling triangles represent (leaves).

While placing the HST leaves in the sashing, I deliberately arranged a Friendship Star in the center of the quilt where the sashings meet. To me it reminds me that this quilt was given in friendship.

I used a light green for the back, and white solid for the binding. I added a special label for my secret recipient. I can’t wait to give her this quilt! She’s a dear friend and I hope this gift comforts her.

Here are the quilt details:

"Time Passages" 43-1/4” x 43-1/4” Original Design Background: Solid White Spring Greens: Stash Builders, BE24-G2 Marble Frog, BE28-G1 Foulard Apple, and BE35-G1 Bubbles Sprout (Blenders collection), Pistachio (Basics collection), #512002600 Herringbone Sprout and #512002612 Herringbone Lemon Lime (Peacock Galore collection Summer Greens: Stash Builders, Pineneedle, and Pinecone (Basics collection), BE24-G1 Marble Leprechaun, #111928630 Tossed Seeds Leprechaun, #121707686 Star Forest (Alpine Jingle collection), #122130680 Floral Swirl Lace Spin (Vintage Lace collection), #111708615 Tossed Seeds Storm (Vineyard collection), #111932612 Clover Lemonlime (Petal Pushers collection) Fall Yellows, Oranges, Golds, and Reds: Stash Builders, Nasturtium, Pumpkin, and Daffodil (Basics collection), BE22-C1 Dandelion Daffodil and #BE31-C1 (Blenders collection), #111704345 Cherries Punch (Fresh Pickins collection), #122024255 Moon Burnt Orange, #122028255 Trees Burnt Orange, #122027210 Pumpkin Pumpkin, #122021150 Wheat Cheddar (Pumpkin Delight collection), 111819230 Fountain Gold and #111818885 Acenthus Mixed Berry (Dear William collection), #111910150 Grass Cheddar (Islander collection), #122001080 Sunset Toast (Autumn Sunrise collection) Winter Blues: Stash Builders, Blueberry (Basics collection), BE27-D1 Large Netting Blueberry and BE34-E1 Dot Sky (Blenders collection), #121704580 Dot Ocean and #121715520 Wheat French Blue (Blue Moon collection), #122012536 Snowflake Lake Blue, #122017585 Pointsettia Navy, #12213630 Pinecone Bluebird, #122012511 Snowflake Cloud, #122024510 Moon Sky, #122011510 Flying Dear Sky, #122010531 Bear Tree Frozen Pond (Glacier Bay collection), #111914565 Scales Blueberry (Magical Reef collection), #112147521 Matisse Star (Harbor Blue collection), #122001510 Sunset Sky and #122035511 Dots Cloud (Lavender Fields collection), #121816520 Flower Field (French Blue collection), #121922515 Tossed Feathers Chambray, #121922515 Tossed Feathers Chambray (Northern Lights collection), #121819510 Paisley Outing Sky French Blue Browns: Stash Builders, #112031869 Lantern Citrine (Metropolis collection), #11923083 Mosaic Lines Brownie (Clockworks collection) Binding: White (Solids collection) Backing: BE27-G1 Large Netting Lemongrass (Blenders collection) Batting: Hobbs Premium Cotton Piecing Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2024 (White) Quilting Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2024 (White), #2145 (Yellow Orange), #2612 (Artic Sky), #2886 (Light Avocado), #2884 (Green Yellow), #2360 (Chocolate) Binding Thread: Aurifil 50 wt. #2024 (White) Needle: Schmetz Chrome 80/12 Pieced and quilted by Jennifer Fulton

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