Showing posts with label #heatnbondlite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #heatnbondlite. Show all posts

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Front Porch Sittin' ~ Part One

Front Porch Sittin' is my next project for Island Batik Ambassadors.  October is my favorite time of the year for watching the sunset from my porch.  The October skies can't be beat.  I decided to do my project based on this theme.  

My porch is surrounded with flowers.  I have azaleas, climbing roses, flower pots, and a brand new flower bed between the azaleas and a brick path with Coneflowers, Petunias, and a mysterious purple perennial that I don't remember the name of.  It's essential that this project features some evening blooms.  I cut the flower and flower center shapes out of Heat 'n Bond Lite for fusible applique.

Did you see the Out and About bag I made last month for the ByAnnie.com challenge?  It used four of the fabrics from the new Urbanization collection.  I love these fabrics so much.  I'm using most of them for this month's quilt.  Aren't they lovely? 

Here's another angle.

Disclaimer:  These fabrics were given to me by Island Batik.
Here are my flower pieces, fused and cut out.  The yellow centers were cut from another Island Batik fabric in my stash. All the flower petals were cut with fabrics from Urbanization.

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Jennifer Thomas


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Thursday, October 10, 2019

Happy Fall Part One

 Happy Fall, Y'all!  Autumn is my favorite season of the year. It's finally starting to feel like it here in North Carolina.  The squirrels are going crazy gathering acorns, and the leaves are beginning to turn. I'm making a Fall table topper for my October Island Batik Ambassador project.  Above is the idea I drew up in EQ8 for my design.  I've changed it up a bit and added a few borders in my final design.

 I decided to make the pumpkin out of one big rectangle of orange fabric with flip and stitch corners.  Doesn't this Island Batik fabric make it look like a lit Jack 'O Lantern?  I love the way it glows.

After piecing everything together, I used Heat 'n Bond Lite to fuse the letters in place.  I'm blanket stitching around the edges with black Aurifil thread.  I'm almost ready to quilt this, but I'm not sure how to do the quilting just yet.  It's hanging up on my design wall waiting for inspiration to strike.  Hopefully, that will happen soon!  

Disclaimer:  The products used in this post were provided to me by Island Batik and industry partners at no cost to me.

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Wednesday, August 21, 2019

Peace Quilt Block

 Last week I carved out a little time to sew the Peace quilt block.

 It's a fusible applique pattern.  I like to use Heat 'n Bond Lite for my fusible applique.

 I iron all of my fabrics before applying the fusible web.  This is the back of the green I used for the leaves and stems, ready to press.

 I enjoy the process of cutting out the pieces.  These are the red flower petals.

 In this stage I am sorting out the pieces on my ironing board and preparing to fuse them to the background block.

All the pieces have been applied to the background.  The next step will be sewing a tiny zigzag stitch over the edges of each patch.  

 The Peace quilt block pattern is available in my Etsy shop, here:  Peace Applique Quilt Block Pattern

 When it is finished, it will be a nice companion to my Hope quilt block.  I'm planning on sewing four different applique blocks and putting them together into a small quilt.

The Hope quilt block pattern is also available in my Etsy shop, here:  Hope Quilt Block Pattern

Are you following Island Batik's Beat the Heat Blog Hop?  Today's blogs are:
Wednesday, August 21
Vicki Schlimmer
Mania Hatziioannidi

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Sunday, July 7, 2019

Artsy Fartsy In Love Part II

Disclaimer:  The fabrics in this post were provided to me by Island Batik at no cost to me.
 Did you read the Part One post about this project?  For part two, I cut out my Heat 'n Bond Lite backed applique pieces and fused them to the black background.  Doesn't this green Island Batik fabric look wonderful for the leaf shapes?

I cut and collected all of my pieces into a plastic zipper bag.

I arranged all the patches on the black background ~ did you know Island Batik makes a gorgeous deep solid black fabric? ~ and fused them in place.  Next comes the artsy part.  I get to play with my Aurifil thread collection!  

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Jennifer Thomas

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