Quilting Affection Designs: Hearts and More Templates

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Monday, November 25, 2019

Island Batik Ambassador Tool Time

For many of us Island Batik Ambassadors, the theme of November Tool Time. We were to come up with a particular project that uses a specialty tool, template, or dies.

As a Sue Pelland Design's Certified Instructor, I'm trying to make quilts using her products for Trunk Shows, plus this gives me a chance to play and practice. So I decided I was going to pick a project from my Hearts and More Book by Sue Pelland Designs. The project I choose was the Drunkards Path Quilt.

Most of your Drunkards path quilts are traditionally two colors, but I decided to use three different colors from the Island Batik "Graphic Gems" Collection. I just love the bold colors in this collection.

The drunkard's path in this project was not your standard curve piecing, this version we will be making fast and easy way using the Sue Pelland Designs Hearts and More Template to make applique Drunkard path blocks.

You start by cutting two different sized squares out. Then take the larger squares to your ironing board and add a piece of Fubile webbing on the reverse side of the square. Sue Pelland recommends, and I have to agree to use MistyFuse Fusible webbing. I love it do to it does not gum up my needle, and plus, your fabrics don't feel stiff after it is applied. It is like there is nothing there.

Once the Fubile webbing is cool, it was time to cut out the perfect circles. Place your fused fabric on your cutting mat. Fold the fabric on the diagonal and finger press in place. Then I placed the Hearts and More Template D on the fold, making sure the centerline was lined up on the fold, and the arrow was pointing toward the center of the fabric.

Using my 28mm rotary cutting blade, I cut a 5" circle of the fabrics. Making sure to make a clean cut all the way around.

Back at the ironing board, I placed the frame down right side down on the applique pressing sheet.

I placed a smalled square that was cut the same size as the Fusible webbing that was on the back of the framed piece and fused the pieces together.

The fused pieces look great.

Now we are going to take the center circles we cut out of the frame and center them on the larger square. To find the center, I folded the square and circles and finger press line the folds to help with the lineup.

Once, the centered circle was centered on the larger square. I fused the pieces together.

Then, the final touch was to use a blanket stitch and round the circles. Just remember to take your time, and it will look really lovely.

Once all your circles are stitched down, it was time to square the block.

And cut the square in half.

And in half once more to get four Drunkard Path units. Fast, easy, and nice-looking blocks every time.

Now it is time to sew them all together. I laid out the blocks, in a two by two layout first and then stitched them all together to form a four by four grid layout in two different color schemes. Then finished them off by stitching all the grids together.

Here is my final quilt, now this quilt is finished and ready to go to my longarmer. If you have not tried out the Sue Pelland Hearts and More Templates, you may want to before you start your next Drunkards Path quilt. This is a fun and easy way to make your quilt.

Be sure to come back for the Decembers project, to finish off the exciting Island Batik Ambassador year.

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

Island Batik Ambassador Artsy Fartsy Project

The Island Batik Ambassadors were tasked for July to make an Artsy Project. This project must use at least three different weights of Auriful Thread.

I took a slightly different route for my project this month from my other Island Batik Ambassadors. I decided since I will be attending Sue Pelland Certified Instructor training next week, I thought it would be fun to do a useful project using her Hearts and More Template s. My idea was to make a sampler of all the different Curved-Edge Heart that were listed in the Appendix of her Hearts and More Rotary Cut Applique Book.

In this project, along with using varies scraps of Island Batik fabrics. I used 4 different weights of Aurifil threads that were provided to me from the company itself. The color I'm using is 5006, and the weights I used are 12wt, 28wt, 40wt, and 50wt Cotton threads.

I started my project off with pre-quilting my fabrics so my fusible project and decorative stitching would show on both sides. The fabric I chose for the project is called "Rice" from the Island Batik Foundation Neutral Collections.

So, using the walking foot on my Bernina 580B and Auriful thread 50wt match thread I began quilting squares into my fabric.

Once I had the fabric quilted. I used MistyFuse Fusible on back of my Island Batik Fabric from past projects and cut and fused the hearts to my quilted fabric. Each color represented a different template and size. I used Blue tape to temporary mark which template and the marking I used in the project.

Time to start stitching. My idea was to use a different weight on each of the various templates I used.

I started off working with Cotton 50wt Thread. I usually use this weight of thread for my piecing and Marching applique fabrics. I used an 80/12 Microtex Schmetz needle in my machine. The bobbin was also the 50wt thread.

28wt Cotton thread was next in my decorative stitches. It is recommended to use a 50wt thread in the bobbin and a 90/14 needle. I used a Schmetz Microtex 90/14 needle. The stitches were different sizes of blanket stitches.

Next, up was the 40wt Cotton thread, where I used some decorative stitches that I had not tried before. Using a Schmetz Microtec 80/12 needle and 50wt in the bobbin once again.

The final thread I used was 12wt cotton. I love the feel of this thread, it is very similar to floss and worked great for the decorative stitches I chose to use on these hearts. This weight works great for hand embroidery and cross-stitching as well. I used a Schmetz 90/14 microtex needle and 40wt in the bobbin.

I found that all these Aurifil threads work great for machine applique decorative stitching. I recommend that you refer to the Aurifil Product Guide to find the correct weight of thread and needle size for your project.

I finished up by binding my sampler using 50wt thread. And using a Pigma Micron Pen to write all the necessary templates and sizes in the Curved-Edge Heart.

Now I have a great visual reference of the different hearts that can be made using the Sue Pelland Hearts and More Template s, which will be a wonderful aid for some of my future quilt pattern designs.

See you in August for the Beat the Heat Blog Hop. Also, be sure to check out the other Island Batik Ambassador blogs list below.

Carolina Asmussen ~Carolina Asmussen

Gene Black ~ Gene Black

Pamela Boatright ~ PamelaQuilts

Connie K Campbell ~ Freemotion by the River

Anja Clyke ~ Anja Quilts

Tina Dillard ~ Quilting Affection Designs

Becca Fenstermaker ~Pretty Piney

Jennifer Fulton ~ Inquiring Quilter

Barbara Gaddy ~ Bejeweled Quilts by Barb

Dione Gardner-Stephen ~ Clever Chameleon

Sarah Goer ~ Sarah Goer Quilts

Vasudha Govindan ~ Storied Quilts

Lori Haase ~ Dakota City Quilter II

Joanne Hart ~ Unicornharts

Mania (Magdalini) Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for Quilts

Carla Henton ~ Creatin in the Sticks

Stephanie Jacobson ~ Steph Jacobson Designs

Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Joan Kawano ~ Moosestash Quilting

Kim Lapacek ~ Persimon Dreams

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood

Leanne Parsons ~ Devoted Quilter

Bea Lee ~ BeaQuilter

Toby Lischko ~ Gateway Quilts & Stuff

Bill Locke ~ Studio Bill Locke

Denise Looney ~ For the Love of Geese

Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights

Sally Manke ~ Sally Manke

Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack's Blog

Kathleen McCormick ~ Kathleen McMusing

Carol Moellers ~ Carol Moellers Designs

Karen Neary ~ Sew Karen-ly Created

Lisa Nielsen ~ Lisa Lisa and the Quilt Jam

Jackie O’Brien ~ If These Threads Could Talk

Laura Piland ~ Slice of Pi Quilts

Michelle Roberts ~ Creative Blonde

Vicki Schlimmer ~ Vicki's Crafts and Quilting

Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail

Sherry Shish ~ Powered by Quilting

Anita Skjellanger ~ Quilt in a not-Shell

Laticia "Tish" Stemple ~ Tish's Adventures in Wonderland

Jennifer Strauser ~ Dizzy Quilter

Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations

Terri Vanden Bosch ~ Lizard Creek Quilts

Alison Vermilya ~ Little Bunny Quilts

Sandra Walker ~ mmm! quilts

Suzy Webster ~ Adventurous Applique and Quilting

(Debora) Anne Wiens ~ Seams like a Plan

Geraldine Wilkins ~ Living Water Quilter

Janet Yamamoto ~ Whispers of Yore

See you next month,

Tina

"Designs to Inspire"

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Island Batik Ambassador - Hobbs Modern Challenge

May's challenge for the Island Batik Ambassadors was to create a Modern Quilt that was used Hobbs Batting.

There are lots of different interpretations of a Modern Quilt. The Modern Quilt Guild defines a Modern Quilt as the following, “We define modern quilts as quilts that are functional, include bold colors, and are inspired by modern design. Minimalism, asymmetry expansive negative space, and alternate grid work are often a part of modern quilt compositions, as are improvisational piecing and solid fabrics.”

Many of the Modern Quilts are pieced quilts, I took my Modern a different direction, I did mine as a raw edge applique quilt. The batting and the fabrics I used in this quilt were given to me by Hobbs Batting and Island Batik. The Island Batik Fabrics I used was leftover fabric from the Fall 2018, Ditty Collection.

I designed this modern quilt myself using the Sue Pelland Designs, Hearts, and More Templates. If you are not familiar with the Sue Pelland Designs templates, they are applique templates for rotary cutting using a 28mm cutter to cut around the curves. The Hearts and More Templates allows you to cut applique pieces, such as Hearts, Circles, Paisley, and so much more. This is the first time that I got to play with this set of templates, and it was so much fun.

My design for this quilt was to make three different panels. These panels will have Hearts and Circles of different sizes floating around in the panels.

Sue Pelland recommends fusing MistyFuse Fusible webbing on the back due to the softness and thinness of the fusible webbing. With MisyFuse you fuse it to the back of your fabric before you cut.

Once your MistyFuse is cooled and not tacky you can then start cutting your shapes with your templates.

Once all my pieces were cut and placed on my long panels I then pressed them down with a hot iron.

Next, I tacked the shapes down with a nice blanket stitch with my Auriful Threa d that matches perfectly.

Once the panels applique was done, I then added thin strips in between the three panels to piece them together.

Now it was time to do a little ruler work on the longarm using the Hobbs Heirloom 80/20 Bleached cotton batting since my quilt was mainly white.

I had a hard time deciding on a type of quilting design I want to do on it. I finally decided to do random swirling lines throughout the quilt top. Finishing off with the same color of binding as the middle strip pieces.

This quilt was so much fun to make and I loved playing with the Sue Pelland Rotary Cut Applique templates and look forward to doing more with them in the future.

June challenges are just around the corner, but if you would like to catch up on all the other Island Batik Ambassador projects for the May you can click on the links below.