Saturday, May 04, 2024

Paper Pieced Celebrations Blog Hop with the Island Batik Ambassadors

 It's that time again - the new Island Batik collections are shipping out and the Island Batik Ambassadors are getting together to show you how beautiful they are in a fun and challenging blog hop!  I get to kick it off on Monday with my project, and am super excited to show you what I've made!


Our challenge for this blog hop was to make a quilt to capture the essence of a holiday using paper piecing.  I can't wait to see what everyone came up with!  Some of the holiday collections are pretty easy, and some I am sure were more challenging to come up with.  Here is the schedule for the hop:

WEEK 1

May 6:

May 7:

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May 9:

May 10:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

WEEK 2

May 13:

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May 15:

May 16:

May 17:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

WEEK 3

May 20:

May 21:

May 22:

May 23:

May 24:

End of Blog Hop and Final Round-Up

Although the Island Batik Paper Pieced Celebrations Blog Hop starts next Monday, the first week’s giveaway is live right now! Follow the simple Rafflecopter prompts below for a chance to win one of the two fabulous Fat Quarter bundles – Dots and Doodles by Carol Moellers Designs or Fire and Ice by Claudia Pfeil!  Good luck, and have fun hopping with us over the next few weeks!



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7 comments:

  1. I love paper piecing and I am really looking forward to seeing what the ambassadors come up with. I know I will find inspiration!
    Regarding the question about unconventional tools...
    Many years ago, in a class at a big quilt show, I heard the tip to use a wallpaper seam roller when paper piecing. I used the roller I had previously used for hanging wallpaper and it was so helpful. Now there are better rollers available and some marketed just for piecing, so I guess it's not so unconventional anymore. I still use a roller but I did get an improved model.

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  2. Looking forward to seeing all the projects in these great batiks. For turning and pushing out corners I often use a chopstick.

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  3. I have a marble pizza roller that I use for paper piecing. Works perfect everytime.

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  4. I love my grapefruit spoon - for assembling quilt with safety pins. The teeth on the spoon help easily close the safety pins when pinning the three layers of quilt.

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  5. Susan Sousa8:52 AM

    The colours are lovely. It was nice of you to learn that your friend likes blue and use it in the border. I am new to paper piecing and found it to be rather fiddly. It didn’t help that twice I cut off the patch instead of the seam allowance. Oh, well. I’m learning.

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  6. What a great way to start out the blog Hop! Beautiful quilt!

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  7. The colors are beautiful!! I can't think of a tool I use that's not sewing/quilting related, but I certainly have enough tools!! :-) I have a terrible habit of wanting to buy every new thing that comes on the market, and quite often, I do! :-) Thanks so much for the chance to win!

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