Feather and Flair Blog Hop ~ Firework Quilt

Welcome to my day on the Feather and Flair Blog Hop.  This is the quilt I designed and made for the hop, Firework.  

Feather and Flair is Connie Kresin Campbell's new signature collection with Island Batik Lumin Fabrics.  It should be in local shops now.  If you don't see it in your local quilt shop, don't be shy! ~ ask for it.

Look at how beautiful the fabrics in this collection are!  I was so excited to design a quilt with this fabric.  Thank you, Connie for asking me to be a part of your hop.  The designs on the fabrics are fabulous, too.  Some of the fabrics have peacocks on them!  If you haven't already visited Connie's blog, follow the link at the end of my post.  She is having a fabric and pattern giveaway in conjunction with the hop.  The quilts she made are inspiring, too.  I know you will want to try at least one of her new patterns.

I really wanted to take some pictures of Firework at the beach, but the weather did not cooperate.  Here is a photo of the finished top on my design wall.  You can see how vibrant the colors are.  I enjoyed using the light green for my neutral.  Sometimes it is fun to use a color as a neutral instead of black or white.

I used Hobbs Heirloom cotton for the batting.  I pieced with Aurifil and quilted with Superior King Tut.  This photo shows the binding in progress.  I often use binding that matches the outer border of my quilt, but this time I chose this blue and red/orange/pink fabric.  Do you like it as much as I do?

Firework Quilt

Quilt Stats:

Quilt Size:  37" x 37"

Fabric:  Feather and Flair Island Batik Lumin Fabrics

Batting:  Hobbs Heirloom Cotton

Piecing Thread:  Aurifil

Quilting Thread:  Superior King Tut

Iron:  Oliso

Needles:  Schmetz

Designed in EQ8

I want to thank Connie for inviting me to be a part of her hop.  Be sure to visit all the other quilters to see what they made with Feather and Flair.  Here's the list:

• Monday August 3rd - Freemotion by the River

• Tuesday August 4th - Needled Mom

• Wednesday August 5th - Songbird Designs

• Thursday August 6th - Curlicue Creations (you are here)

• Friday August 7th - Freemotion by the River

Mark your calendars, the Songbird Blog Hop is coming up soon!  August 10 through 19th.  Join me then for more fabric and pattern giveaways and lots of quilty inspiration.

Be creative ~ Sew something beautiful today,

Jennifer Thomas

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Threaded Chaos Blog Hop ~ the Crazy Cat Lady Quilt

Hello and welcome to my day on the Threaded Chaos blog hop!  This is my quilt, the Crazy Cat Lady Quilt.  

Disclaimer:  The products used to make this project were given to me by Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics) and Industry Sponsors.

The Threaded Chaos challenge is sponsored by Lumin Fabric's industry partner, Aurifil Thread.  The challenge parameters were to make a crazy quilt, crib size or larger using the new Island Batik fabric collection we received in our July Box and embellish it with the four spools of Aurifil thread that we were able to choose ourselves for this project.

I received the Everlasting fabric collection, designed by Jerry Khiev.  It's so pretty!  I love the pinks and greens.  A couple of the pink fabrics have a peachy tone to them.  The designs are mostly florals.  This collection should be in local fabric shops this month.

Aurifil is sponsoring this challenge.  We were able to pick out four spools of thread of our choice.  I chose a variegated pink, a minty green, a gold for contrast, and a dark green.  They all coordinated perfectly with the Everlasting fabric collection.

    

I also used Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Black cotton batting, Schmetz needles, and my Oliso project iron in raspberry to make this quilt.

This is the second time we've had a crazy quilt challenge since I have been and Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics) Ambassador, and I came up with the Crazy Cat Lady idea the first time, but decided not to make it then. This time I was ready!  Here's how I made this quilt:  First, I printed out nine different crazy quilt paper pieced block patterns from EQ8.  I'm sure I could have just made the same block nine times, but where's the challenge in that?  I paper pieced all nine blocks and sewed them together into one big crazy 36" square.

Next I used fusible web to cut out the nine cat silhouettes (also from EQ8), all the letters, and the four cornerstone squares.  I fused everything to black background pieces and did a small zigzag stitch around the edges of all the cats and all the letters.  I used all four thread colors for the zigzag stitching.

I used a ruler to make sure my letters came out nice and straight.

Next I used all four Aurifil thread colors and played with the specialty stitches on my Janome Memory Craft sewing machine and stitched along the seam lines on the cats.  It was a lot of fun!

Oh kitty!

Close ups of a few of my favorite stitches.

So pretty!

Isn't this Greek Key looking stitch cool?  

I used Hobbs Black 80/20 Cotton batting and quilted a loopy meander with black thread.  I went around the cats, but quilted over the lettering and cornerstones.

I like the way it looks with the black quilting thread over the letters.

When I finished, I headed outside for a fun photo session.  

Horizontal view.

Front porch stylin'.

Rolled up binding shot.  I used the same pink for the binding as I used for the outer border.

It seriously only took five minutes to get three cats on the new quilt.  That's Spots on the top, Batman on the left, and their mama, Chessie Blue on the right.  I hung this quilt up in my living room for display afterwards.  This was such a fun project, and I absolutely love the finish!  I hope you like it, too.

Crazy Cat Lady Quilt

Quilt Stats: 

Quilt Size:  44" x 52"

Block Size:  12" x 12"

Fabric:  Everlasting by Jerry Khiev for Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics)

Thread:  Aurifil 50wt, 2880, 2892, 3660, 2134

Batting:  Hobbs Black 80/20

Needles:  Schmetz

Iron:  Oliso

Designed in EQ8

Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics) is giving away a fat quarter collection of Everlasting this week!  You can enter to win by visiting the Lumin Fabrics Facebook or Instagram page and making a comment.

Also, be sure to visit all the ambassadors during the hop to see the newest collections and the amazing crazy quilts!  

• Brenda Alburl ~ Songbird Designs
• Renee Atkinson ~ Pink Tulip Quilting
• Susan Deshensky ~ Lady Blue Quilts Studio
• Tina Dillard ~ Quilting Affection Designs
• Brittany Fisher ~ Bobbin with Brittany
• Kimberly Flannagan ~ Kimberly’s Quilts
• Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts
• Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for quilts
• Kim Jamieson-Hirst ~ Chatterbox Quilts
• Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs
• Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt
• Connie Kresin Campbell ~ Freemotion by the River
• Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood
• Denise Looney ~ A Quiltery
• Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights
• Susan Michaels ~ Dragonfly Fiberart
• Lisa Pickering ~ Lisa’s Quilting Passion
• Sarah Pitcher ~ Pitcher’s Boutique
• Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail
• Carol Stanek ~ Stitch with Color
• Solomae Stoycoff ~ Cuddle Cat Quiltworks
• Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations (You are here)

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Jennifer Thomas

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Be My Neighbor Quilt and Pattern

Hello!  Welcome to my neighborhood.  This is the Be My Neighbor quilt.  It's one of my newest patterns, available now in the Curlicue Creations Etsy shop and select quilt shops around the U.S.A.

This is one of the five quilts I made to support my signature fabric collection, Sunlit Garden.  This fabric is so bright and pretty!  I love the reds, blues, greens, and white and the pretty flower designs by Jerry Khiev.  It's an Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics) collection.

I've always loved house quilts and I've made a few of them over the years.  Isn't this blue house block lovely?  Do you see how it uses four different blue fabrics from the Sunlit Garden collection?

Here are some of the blocks up on my design wall as I was putting the quilt top together.  It was fun to design and stitch the red, green, blue, and rainbow house blocks.

Quilting the Be My Neighbor quilt was a joy as well.  It is fun for me to make quilts with different colors in the blocks.  I quilted a loopy meander in an allover design with a light green thread.

Be My Neighbor

Quilt Stats:

Quilt Size:  52" x 66"

Fabric:  Sunlit Garden by Island Batik (Lumin Fabrics)

Batting:  Hobbs Cotton

Thread:  Aurifil

Needles:  Schmetz

Designed in EQ8

The Be My Neighbor pattern is available in select quilt shops across the USA.  It can also be purchased in the Curlicue Creations Etsy Shop as either a PDF instant download pattern (so you can start sewing right away!) or a paper pattern (I will send it to you via snail mail).

Click here to purchase a PDF instant download Be My Neighbor pattern.

Click here to purchase a paper pattern for the Be My Neighbor quilt.

If you sew a Be My Neighbor quilt, please share a pic with me on Instagram @curlicuecreations.  

I would love to see your quilt!

Be Creative ~ Sew Something Beautiful Today.

Jennifer Thomas

Curlicue Creations

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