Island Batik New Beginnings Blog Hop

Welcome to my post for the Island Batik Blog Hop. 

This is the last day of the blog hop.

Island Batik has a giveaway through Rafflecopter HERE.

You will also find links to all the Island Batik Ambassadors' 

blog hop posts there, as well. 

I have a giveaway, too!

Details on entering for a chance to win my giveaway 

are at the end of my post.

We Island Batik Ambassadors were charged with interpreting the theme "New Beginnings" by creating a project larger than 24" x 24" using the fresh, new Fall/Winter 2016 fabrics introduced at Quilt Market in November. We had to use at least 8 of the fabrics from the fabric collections we received. I had some of the Merry and Bright collection to use. 

I bought this black Island Batik Blender (BE23-E1) from a local quilt shop, 

to use as my background.

This is the quilt I designed. 

It looks different depending upon how it is viewed. 

I thank my husband and future son-in-law 

for holding the quilt and apologize for a wonky photo.

I used EQ7 to design this quilt. 

Scanning the fabrics and adding them to the fabric palette 

allowed me to determine which quilt layout was the choice I wanted.

I used half yard cuts of the 8 fabrics and 3 yards of the black. 

The Merry and Bright fabrics were cut into 2.5 inch strips. 

The blocks finish at 9" x 18" long when sewn into the quilt. 

I have to thank Michelle Fialek, my longarm quilter for quilting this for me. 

I was under the gun to get it finished for today and she came through. 

She used a lovely variegated black and gray thread with the swirls. 

(The photo is a larger file, if you want to click on it and see a close up.)

Now, for my giveaway. 

I haven't given a name to the quilt I designed. 

Leave a comment with a name for this quilt. 

I will choose a suggestion on Friday, Feb. 3. 

Please leave a way for me to contact you if you are a no-reply commenter. 

The chosen name will be sent this Stamp Pack of 5" squares from

the Sea Canyon fabric collection. 

For a giveaway chance for a random selection of 

fat 1/8ths from my Island Batik fabrics,

leave a comment on my Facebook page HERE. 

(I am sorry I can only ship to United States addresses due to postage costs.)

But if you are outside of the United States, I will email you a some of my PDF patterns.

If you would like an idea of what can be made with 

a Stamp Pack of Island Batik fabrics, 

see what I did HERE or HERE.

Thank you for visiting and I look forward to choosing a name for the quilt. 

Tomorrow I will post the reveal of my 

Four-in_Art group quilt. I hope you return.