Disclaimer: These fabrics were given to me by Island Batik at no cost to me.
Look quickly! It's a sneaky peeky at Island Batik's new Tweet fabric collection! What a rainbow of glorious color and prints. This is the secret collection I received waaay back at the beginning of the year for the A Piece of blog hop, going on now. Come back on November 20th (next Wednesday!) to see the quilt I created with this collection. It's called Wild Tuba Party in the Woods. I know you're curious to see what that is about! See you then.
Bright Ideas Halloween Decorative Painting Booklet. Very Good condition. 22 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1990.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, and a General Instructions section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Whimsical Wilma, Sugar Sock Witch, Swingin' on a Star Witch, R.I.P. Wreath, Boo and Company, Split Leg Witch, Greta Granny Witch, Bats, Cornelius Cat, Night Rider, and Gary Ghost.
Bunnies Bears 'n Babies Decorative Painting Booklet. Very Good condition. 38 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1992.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, and a General Instructions section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Baby Kleenex Box, Baby Diaper Box, Baby Toy Box, Rocking Horse Lamp, Baby Bear Mobile, Love Flower Pick, Baby Photo Album, Baby Sampler, Bunny Bear Shelf, Baby Giraffe Measuring Stick, Bear Diaper Holder, Bunny Diaper Holder, Diaper Bag, Bear Love Wall Hanging, Bunny Switch Plate, and Baby Bear Switch Plate.
Bunntybrooke Farm Decorative Painting Booklet. Very Good condition. 47 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1997.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, an Acrylic Painting Instruction section, a Color Comparison Chart, and a Painting Terms section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Garden Tote, Bunny Pick in Clay Pot, Carrots on Clay Pot, God Counts Every Hare, Bunny on Clay Pot, "Un Lapin" Hookboard, Paper Mache Carrots, Wood Checkerboard Carrots, Bunny Bowl, "Un Lapin" Bucket with Handle, Bunny Angel Welcome Plaque, Garden Hearts, Bunny with Cart on Bucket, Welcome Bunny on Base, Bunny Couple (plaque and cover design), Bunny Jumping Over Carrot, Girl Bunny Angel, Boy Bunny Angel, Paper Mache Potting Shed, Bunny Picket Shelf, and Garden Sampler.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many brush stroke techniques, scrolls, borders, flowers, and leaves suitable for acrylic or oil painting. Color photos and diagrams. Includes Freehand Brush Stroke Practice Sheet.
Freehanding with Jackie decorative painting book. Very good condition. 48 pages. Copyright 1980.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many brush stroke techniques, scrolls, borders, flowers, and leaves suitable for acrylic or oil painting. Cover is in color. Designs and photos are black and white.
The Country Club Seed Co decorative painting book. Good condition. There is an advertisement page in the back of the book with red ink pen check marks on it (see photo 7) 40 pages. Copyright 1995.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, and a Basic Supplies and Techniques section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Wheelbarrow, Baby Wheelbarrow, Garden Angel, Weathered Angel, and more.
Fall Friends and Winter Welcomes Decorative Painting Booklet. Very Good condition. 18 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1998.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, Wood Cutting Information, Pre-Lined Wood Information, and a still intact pull out patterns section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Trick or Treat Door Sign, Welcome to Our Patch Door Sign, Beware Skeleton Yard Stake, Happy Harvest Yard Stake, Jolly Holidays Yard Stake, and more.
All the Happy Holidays Volume 2 Decorative Painting Booklet. Good condition. 44 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1989.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, a General Supplies section, a Color Comparison Chart, a General Directions section, and a Fabric Painting General Directions section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include St. Patrick's Day Shirts, Children's Easter T-Shirts, Springtime Hanging Basket, Irish Children Chunkies, The Egg Family, and more.
A Charmed Christmas Decorative Painting Booklet. Very good condition. 18 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1992.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, a General Supplies section, and a General Instructions Section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Elf Trio, Mr. and Mrs. Santa, Cone Ornaments, Angel Centerpiece, and Angel Ornaments.
Bright Ideas Simply Christmas Decorative Painting Booklet. Fair condition. Name written in Sharpie Marker on first page upper right hand corner (see photo 5), Slight paint spill on one page (see photo 6) 26 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 1991.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes many painting projects, and a General Instructions Section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Nicholas Floor Santa, Catch a Falling Star, Pear Tree, Ski Tough, Beary Merry Christmas, Carma Jean, Rebecca, Door Santa, Star Bright Bear, Starry Advent Tree, and Snowflake Mittens.
Country Primitives 9 Decorative Painting Booklet. Very good condition. 80 pages. Soft cover. Copyright 2001.
This beautiful decorative painting booklet includes painting projects, and a General Information Section. Designs are all shown in full color and include detailed painting instructions. Designs include Wanda Winter Angel, Sara Spring Angel, Summer Sue Angel, Harvest Hannah Angel, Families are Forever Winter, Families are Forever Spring, and more.
Primitive Cotton Warp Thread Set suitable for weaving, tapestry, jewelry making, primitive stitching, and more.
This listing is for one set of 10 primitive cotton threads. Thread has a matte finish. Weights may vary. 10 yards of each color, for a total of 100 yards.
A beautiful cut of high quality quilting fabric, Enchanted Pines, by McKenna Ryan, for Robert Kaufman. Fat quarter cut of 100 percent cotton. Easy care, machine wash cold water, tumble dry low.
The design on this fabric features a natural looking allover brown and beige streak pattern with tiny dots scattered in clusters. Perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
This beautiful piece of cotton has been individually hand dyed by Island Batik fabric artists in the garden village of Sanur, Bali. Fat quarter cut of 100 percent cotton fabric. Easy care, machine wash cold water, delicate dry cycle, cool iron.
The design on this fabric features beige leaves, stars, snowflakes, and dots on a brown background. This fabric is perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
A beautiful cut of quilting fabric, Rose Beige Floral Fabric. 100 percent cotton, fat quarter cut. Easy care, machine wash warm, tumble dry, remove promptly.
The design on this fabric features a medium scale allover floral design. Perfect for your next quilting or home sewing project. So unique - be creative!
Disclaimer: Products featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and industry partners at no cost to me.
The idea for the Blown Away quilt was to show a block exploding into larger and larger blocks diagonally across the quilt top. I searched this book for the perfect block for this design. I chose the Turnstile block. If you own this fabulous book, it's on page 114.
I chose these lovely yellow, purple, and gray fabrics from my Island Batik stash and got right to work.
Some of the cutting was done with a ruler and rotary cutter.
Some of the cutting was done with an Accuquilt Go. I use the Go whenever possible. Everything cuts out so accurately and quickly. It's awesome!
The Blown Away top came together very quickly. It was super easy to sew. The hardest part was making sure everything was facing the correct way to make the design.
I added a thin purple border for the pinwheel design and quilting to flow into.
I used straight line quilting and purple and yellow Aurifil thread to accent the movement of the pinwheels across the quilt.
Ragamuffin helping me quilt.
"Don't even think of moving me", that look says.
I pulled this fun gray, black, and white fabric out of my stash to sew the sleeve.
The Blown Away quilt trying to blow away.
The Blown Away finish. The sun was in the wrong place for taking photos, but I think it looks kind of cool with the sunbeam across the front, plus you can really see the quilting lines in this photo. What do you think?
Disclaimer: The fabrics for this quilt were given to me by Island Batik at no cost to me.
The Rock the Boat pattern is in the new Island Batik Spring Summer Catalog.
Above photo by Jerry Khiev.
You can view the complete catalog at the Island Batik website now. Here's the link: Island Batik Spring Summer 2019 Catalog It's amazing. I was so excited and inspired to see the upcoming fabric lines, the quilt patterns, and more. There are just so many things I want to make! Besides quilts, there are patterns to make bags, clothing, tuffets, stuffed animals, and more. Everything glowing in the gorgeous Island Batik fabrics.
This is the Island Batik version of Rock the Boat. It's made in the coming soon (this Spring) Graphic Gems fabric collection.
It's backed with another gorgeous Island Batik fabric. If you don't see Island Batik fabrics in your local quilt shop ~ ask for them!
Here's a close up of one of the blocks. You can see it's a four patch-palooza kind of quilt.
The Graphic Gems collection really sparkles and shines across this quilt top.
I've been working in this purple, teal, and white color scheme a lot lately.
If that's not your thing, this is an easy pattern to change to a different color scheme. Just substitute the purple and teals with two of your favorite Island Batik fabrics and sew, sew, sew.
I kept the quilting simple, stitching a large zigzag across the quilt with white Aurifil thread.
A closer look at the beautiful backing fabric.
I bound this quilt in a dark teal fabric that matches the outer border.
So pretty!
Look for the Rock the Boat pattern and Island Batik fabrics in your local quilt shop soon. And if you don't see it....ask for it.
