It's All Up To You Island Batik Challenge ~ Featuring Citrus Star

This is my Island Batik Ambassador project for April, Citrus Star.  I took a windy clothesline pic this afternoon.  Check out how the green background fabric around the edges of the star matches the green of my lawn!  If I hadn't added that blue border, it would have melted right in.

The theme for the April project was It's All Up to You.  Creative freedom to sew whatever project we could dream up.  I knew right away I wanted to make a big block style quilt.

I paper pieced the entire top.  If I made this again, I would only paper piece the corner sections and sew the rest of the quilt as half square triangles.  I had a lot of kitty help again.  This is Ragamuffin, helping me piece together the paper pattern.

I used the Citrus Sun collection, plus a few blenders and older fabrics from my stash to make this project.  I just love the unusual color combination in Citrus Sun.  

Trail Mix helped me choose the Hobbs black cotton batting for this quilt.  This batting is excellent for quilts with a lot of dark fabric.

I wanted to do a lot of straight line quilting on this project, so I pin basted it to prep for quilting on my Janome Memory Craft.

This is the jar I keep my safety pins in.  Isn't it the cutest?

Quilt, quilt quilt!  I quilted straight lines in matching colors of Aurifil thread with a Schmetz quilting needle.

Sunrise helped with the quilting part.

This photo shows the fabric I used for binding.  I cut my binding strips with my Accuquilt strip cutter.  It's so fast and easy to cut them with the Accuquilt.  The blue thread is one of the Aurifil colors I used for quilting.

Quilting close up.

When I was finished with the straight line quilting, I moved the quilt to my Juki and frame to pebble quilt the green background.

Then I went outside for some glamour shots.  Here's Citrus Star on the front steps.

Is this for me?  Thank you so much!

Citrus Star on the front porch railing with the last of the spring azaleas.

Pretty folds.

Quilting close up #2.

I used Island Batik solid gray for the backing of my quilt.

I usually match my binding to the outer border fabric.  I chose to go with a darker blue for Citrus Star and I like the way it accents the rest of the quilt.

Quilty stack.

 Citrus Star

Quilt Stats:

Finished Quilt Size:  50" x 50"

Block Size:  48" x 48"

Fabric:  Citrus Sun by Island Batik

Batting:  Hobbs Black Cotton

Thread:  Aurifil

Follow my fellow Island Batik Ambassadors for maximum inspiration here:

Megan Best ~

Bestquilter

Pamela Boatright ~

Pamelaquilts

Elizabeth DeCroos ~

Epida Studio

Jennifer Eubank ~ Archipelago Quilting

Jennifer Fulton ~

The Inquiring Quilter

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts

Joanne Hart ~

Unicorn Harts

Mania Hatziioannidi ~

Mania for quilts

Jane Hauprich - Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting

Connie Kauffman

~ Kauffman Designs

Emily Leachman ~

The Darling Dogwood

Denise Looney ~

For The Love Of Geese

Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights

Sally Manke ~

Sally Manke, Fiber Artist

Maryellen McAuliffe ~

Mary Mack Made Mine

Claudia Porter ~

Create with Claudia

Gail Renna ~

Quilt Haven Threads

Brianna Roberts ~

Sew Cute And Quirky

Michelle Roberts ~

Creative Blonde

Gail Sheppard ~

Quilting Gail

Andi Stanfield ~

True Blue Quilts

Jennifer Thomas ~

CurliCue Creations

Suzy Webster

~ WebsterQuilt

Janet Yamamoto ~

Whispers of Yore

Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today.

Jennifer Thomas

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Unicorn Scissors Review

I've been the lucky recipient of these fabulous unicorn scissors, sent to me by Darn Good Yarn to review.  Aren't they fantastical looking?  

Disclaimer:  These scissors were given to me by Darn Good Yarn at no cost to me.

I was curious to see how well they performed.  Sometimes pretty things are great to look at, but not so great to use.  I was very happy with the comfort of these scissors and the sharpness of the blade.  

I've been using them for everything for the last month or so.  I used them to make new masks for my kids going back to school.  No problem cutting elastic and snipping errant threads.

I wound bobbins and snipped the thread with the rainbow unicorn horn.

I snipped quilting threads while working on my April Island Batik Ambassador project.  

I snipped my hand sewing thread while appliqueing this Mariner's Compass block to a beautiful green background.  And lastly, these scissors have found a permanent home in my English Paper Piecing hexie kit. I don't have a photo, but they fit perfectly inside the pink Hello Kitty tin that I use for my EPP supplies.  Yay for Unicorns!

 

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Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today!

Jennifer Thomas

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Modern Sneaky Peeky!

Sneaky Peeky!  This is a section of the back of my Modern quilt for May.  I used an Island Batik neutral fabric, Coconut.  The Island Batik Ambassadors are having a Modern May Blog Hop, beginning on May 3rd, so mark your calendar for that!  I'm still finishing up my April project today, so hopefully I can get that photographed to show you soon.  April's theme is "It's all up to you".  We have the freedom to create whatever we would like.  Fun, fun, fun!

  Until then, take a look at what the rest of the Island Batik Ambassadors are creating here:

Megan Best ~

Bestquilter

Pamela Boatright ~

Pamelaquilts

Elizabeth DeCroos ~

Epida Studio

Jennifer Eubank ~ Archipelago Quilting

Jennifer Fulton ~

The Inquiring Quilter

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts

Joanne Hart ~

Unicorn Harts

Mania Hatziioannidi ~

Mania for quilts

Jane Hauprich - Stitch By Stitch Custom Quilting

Connie Kauffman

~ Kauffman Designs

Emily Leachman ~

The Darling Dogwood

Denise Looney ~

For The Love Of Geese

Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights

Sally Manke ~

Sally Manke, Fiber Artist

Maryellen McAuliffe ~

Mary Mack Made Mine

Claudia Porter ~

Create with Claudia

Gail Renna ~

Quilt Haven Threads

Brianna Roberts ~

Sew Cute And Quirky

Michelle Roberts ~

Creative Blonde

Gail Sheppard ~

Quilting Gail

Andi Stanfield ~

True Blue Quilts

Jennifer Thomas ~

CurliCue Creations

Suzy Webster

~ WebsterQuilt

Janet Yamamoto ~

Whispers of Yore

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Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today.

Jennifer Thomas

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