Starting next week the Island Batik Ambassadors will be sharing their final quilt projects as ambassadors for 2018. You are going to see a variety of beautiful quilts as we all share the newest collections of fabric from Island Batik. There will giveaways too!
I’ll be sharing a quilt made with the Elk Lodge collection on Wednesday!
This is the same collection that I used to design the Crystal Swirls quilt. I thought you might enjoy seeing little Sadie with the quilt.
Getaway Blog Hop Schedule
WEEK 1
Monday, January 7 – Crystal Ball
Maryellen McAuliffe –Mary Mack’s Blog
Sandra Walker- mmm! quilts
Tuesday, January 8 – Ditty
Stephanie Jacobson –Steph Jacobson Designs
Michelle Roberts- Creative Blonde
Wednesday, January 9 – Elk Lodge
Connie Kresin Campbell – Free Motion by the River
Anna Branch –Ark Angel Creations
Thursday, January 10 – Feline Fine
Bea Lee –Bea Quilter
Sharon Parcel- Yellow Cat Designs
Friday, January 11 – Flea Market
Geraldine Wilkins – Living Water Quilter
Jessica Caldwell- Desert Bloom Quilting
WEEK 2
Monday, January 14 – Fortune Teller
Sarah Goer –Sarah Goer Quilts
Sherry Shish –Powered by Quilting
Jennifer Fulton –The Inquiring Quilter
Tuesday, January 15 – Gypsy Rose
Jen Strauser –Dizzy Quilter
Janet Yamamoto- Whispers of Yore
Wednesday, January 16 – Paisley Park
Dione Gardner-Stephen- Clever Chameleon
Nancy Scott –Masterpiece Quilting
Thursday, January 17 – Soul Song
Carole Lyles Shaw- Carol Lyles Shaw
Toby Lischko –Gateway Quilts & Stuff
Friday, January 18 – Twilight Chic
Jackie OBrien –If These Threads Could Talk
Tina Dillard- Quilting Affection
WEEK 3
Monday, January 21 – Winter Park
Jennifer Thomas- Curlicue Creations
Anita Skjellanger- Quilt In a Not Shell
Tuesday, January 22 – Bazaar
Karen Overton- The Quilt Rambler
Alison Vermilya- Little Bunny Quilts
Turid Bakken- Den syende himmel
Wednesday, January 23 – Blossom
Karen Neary –Sew Karen-ly Created
Leanne Parsons –Devoted Quilter
Thursday, January 24 – Boho
Laura Piland- Slice of Pi Quilts
Suzy Webster- Adventurous Applique and Quilting
Myra Barnes- Busy Hands Quilts
Friday, January 25 – Brookview
Vicki Schlimmer –Vicki’s Crafts and Quilting
Amy Warner –Sew Incredibly Crazy
WEEK 4
Monday, January 28 – French Blue
Pamela Boatright –PamelaQuilts
Joyce Mullis –Hearts Creations
Tuesday, January 29 – Midsummer Night
Kathleen McCormick –Kathleen McMusing
Connie Kauffman – Kauffman Designs
Wednesday, January 30 – Oh Deer
Jen Shaffer- Patterns by Jen
Jeanette Jones –Inchworm Fabrics
Thursday, January 31 – Snow Berry
Sally Mannke –Sally Manke Fiber Artist
Joan Kawano –Moosestash Quilting
Friday, February 1 – Candy Cane Lane and Icicle
Icicle
Terri Vanden Bosch – Meanderings along Lizard Creek
Anne Wiens –Sweetgrass Creative Designs
Candy Cane Lane
Mania Hatziioannidi –Mania For Quilts
Barbara Gaddy –Bejeweled Quilts by Barb
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Rhonda Tenderholt
Crystal Swirls is beautiful.
Sherry
WOW! Four weeks of Island Batik Ambassador projects using lovely batik fabrics…I am going to be swooning a lot. Your Crystal Swirls quilt is stunning and gorgeous. I Love Batik fabrics! Thank you Connie Dear for this blog hop heads up.
Susan the Farm Quilter
I love your Crystal Swirls quilt! I’m with Daryl in that I follow only a couple of blogs that are also Island Batik Ambassadors, but when you have your hops to show off what you have made, I do make sure I go to each blog. I like that the Ambassadors have different styles…I’m more into the modern quilts right now, but I do still make traditional quilts as well. It would be fun to be an Ambassador, but I only blog maybe 10 times a year, and with not being in the same state as my longarm, I’m not finishing anything right now! I can’t quilt on my DSM! I’m also not willing to buy an AccuQuilt or a computer designing program, so if those are essential, I’ll just be watching from the sidelines. I am looking forward to starting the blog hop tomorrow – thanks for the reminder!!!
Connie Kresin
Thanks Susan, being an Island Batik Ambassador doesn’t mean you need to buy a computer designing program or AccuQuilt cutter (you’ll find out why when I do my first post as a 2019 ambassador). I am sorry people are confused about this. If we lived closer…..I’d love to sneak over and use your longarm while you’re gone. Wish I had one!
Brenda Ackerman
Hello Connie, Your Chrystal Swirls quilt is such a beautiful quilt! I also like the fact that it works especially well for men. Sometimes, it can be difficult, for me at least, to pick fabrics and the right pattern for making a quilt for a man. I will also go and look around at Craftsy, but I seldom buy online. I have a local quilt shop that sells very inexpensive by the yard fabrics. For everything else, I go to JoAnn’s or WalMart usually. I was able to finish the Baby Quilt Top last night, I am putting on a small border today and then will decide what to do from there. By this evening I will definitely send you pictures! I LOVE IT!! Have a Magnificent day!
Daryl
Did you become an Island Batik Ambassador for 1019 too? I applied in Nov. and got rejected. I guess they are pretty particular in what they are looking for? Maybe since I don’t use all those all those expensive tools like die cut machines and computer design programs that they asked if I have or will buy in the future was just another reason they didn’t want me? Well that’s okay because I can continue making what I love to make anyway and not have to conform to someone else’s idea of what I should be making. The only ambassadors I ever see what they make are those few I follow like you and a few others. I never even look at the other ambassadors blogs, because its too time consuming to find them and look. Maybe they need fewer ambassadors or a better way to show what the ambassadors they do have are doing for them to promote the batiks? If it hadn’t been for you Connie and a few others, I wouldn’t even know there were Ambassadors for Island Batik at all.
Connie Kresin
Hi Daryl, I am so sorry you weren’t picked as an ambassador this year for Island Batik. Believe me, you don’t need Electric Quilt or a AccuQuilt cutter to become one. I’m really not sure what their requirements are but I love your work and please apply again next year.