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Island Batik April Challenge, Funky Friends Factory
This year Island Batik has a new partnership with Funky Friends Factory. Have you heard of them? Have you seen the cute little stuffed animals that you can create? I have been following. Pauline from FFF for some time and even got her Honey Bear pattern that was free on her website. It was just…
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Island Batik March Challenge, It’s All Up to Me
Confession time, I made this month’s challenge back in November 2023 with this month in mind. Why did I do that, you might wonder? Well, let me tell you a little story about it. Late last year in September my sister and I went to a retreat in McCloud CA, a beautiful, small town in…
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February Island Batik, Log Cabin Challenge
Island Batik sends us free fabric at the beginning of each year, designating which fabric is to be used for each month’s challenge. They ask us to use as many SKUs as possible from that fabric line, which usually consists of twenty different fabrics. Of each of these fabrics we receive a half yard cut.…
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2024 Island Batik Unboxing & Year in Review.
Island Batik January 2024 Unboxing and 2023 in Review Welcome to my second year as an Island Batik Ambassador. Last year was a whirl wind of a year for me, filled with trunk shows, classes, retreats, sewing with my gal pals, traveling to new places, taking a long-awaited class with Jacqueline de Jonge, keeping up…
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December Island Batik Celebration Challenge
It’s the end of my first year as an Island Batik Ambassador and I made it! It has been one heck of a ride, just like the roller coaster at Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, the Giant Dipper, with lots of ups and downs, and twists and turns. It was a hair-raising experience indeed! But I…
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It’s in the ByAnnie bag!
November Island Batik Challenge This month’s Island Batik Challenge is all about the ByAnnie bags. Have you heard of ByAnnie bags and purses before today? Annie Unrein started designing these patterns back in 2000. I have made many different types of bags over the years, including some by ByAnnie. To me, ByAnnie patterns are by…
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October 2023 Island Batik Challenge AccuQuilt, North Carolina Star
Here I go again, being pushed out of my comfort zone! As part ofOctober 2023’s challenge I had to use the AccuQuilt fabric cuttingsystem, which is new to me. Let me start by letting you know thatI’m not a gadget or notions kind of gal, so this challenge was hardfor me to wrap my head…
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Pieced to Perfection Blog Hop
Island Batik September Challenge This months challenge was to do a paper pieced project, either EPP (English Paper Pieced) or FPP (Foundation Paper Pieced). Because I am a paper piece fanatic, I was excited to finally be able to do this month’s challenge, the technique I love most! Each Island Batik ambassador was given a…
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Island Batik August Challenge
Ambassadors Choice Well, this month we were left to our own devices to come up with a project, any project that we wanted to make. Hmmm, where do I start?! I had a few ideas of what I wanted to make. I have the ability to look at a picture of a quilt and figure…
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July Island Batik Fly Away Challenge
For the July Island Batik Fly Away Challenge we were asked to make flying geese. As many of you know there are several ways to make flying geese so I choose to do them the easy way at least for me, that would be paper pieced. Picking out the colors is one of my favorite…
Forever Quilting 4 You
Fun with fabrics and quilting ideas
Forever Quilting 4 You 