Island Batik - Sea Salt Sandy

#PTABlog Hop ----Whether at breakfast or at night in Alaska -- Planes, Trains and Automobiles are part of our daily life. Today we're featuring this fabulous Sea Salt-Sandy Island Batik fabric collection.

I couldn't resist when I found these pancake molds at Williams-Sonoma. Just had to make some special pancakes last weekend in anticipation of this post!

 I also got out my AccuQuilt Go! Baby cutter and came up with this little train. It made me think of the aurora borealis in the night sky and the Alaskan train chugging along. (sky fabric is from "Meadow" collection)

When traveling we often get the opportunity to see the wonders of nature. This collection is close to having all colorations of the rainbow, so it makes for a good palette if you are wanting to create something like that. There are large and small motifs of each color.

For the hop I made this pillow I'm calling "Circle of Hope" --it uses 12 of the 20 fabrics plus a background fabric. I blew up the Circle of Geese Block  pattern from our book "You Can Quilt!" (originally designed by Beth M.), so that 1/4 of the pattern still fits on one page. Then added an outer border, just like it talks about on our free layout site www.skillbuildersampler.com

I quilted it with pebbles and C channels, ditching around the geese.

Then put a 2 layer backing on it that overlaps so you can still get the pillow form in, and bound it. Makes it look like piping, but, so quick!

I have always wanted to create a ROYGBV quilt and it finally came together using the Sea Salt Sandy Collection. 

In part, I have these fabrics because of a new design that I released with Island Batik with this collection at market, Fall 2015.





My quilt design is called "Dangling Diamonds" and uses Bella Nonna Design Studio's Boondoggle Rulers. Purchase the pattern via PDF download.

The pattern comes with several bonus designs with Quilted in Honor themes and is available from me directly or ask your local quilt shop to carry them.

Here are a few details of how I quilted it. With all the angles in the piecing, I wanted to create some twirling effects, like they were hanging beads in a door way. I created a card stock template of this shape and traced it into each large background diamond as I went. It is with a purple disappearing ink pen, so it doesn't stay there long.

For the colored diamonds I used matching metallic thread from WonderFil. The center diamond was marked with disappearing ink to give me a registration point for the center, the rest used some straight rulers but a lot of freehand and eyeballing to keep it fairly consistent. Ultimately the key here--loosen the top tension to almost nothing!

In the small diamonds, I used this curved ruler to create a consistent arc, then freehanded the rest.

I used two layers of 80/20 bleached batting. I love the relief where it is NOT quilted.

Backside!

Dangling Diamonds by Marlene Oddie of Kissed Quilts
using Bella Nonna Design Studio Boondoggle Rulers(tm)
56" x 71"

This quilt was recently part of the juried selections at AQS Phoenix QuiltWeek. What an honor! I have purchased crystals to put on it, but the reality is, they are still in the bag. This quilt will be part of an Island Batik trunk show for the year, so ask your local shop to get it in so that you can see it!

My intent in the quilting was to make it feel like you were looking at a doorway --the old vintage ones that had strings of beads hanging to create an artificial door. The quilting design in the background was trying to give you a twisting feeling of those beads as they spin in the doorway. I had several people come up with that idea on their own when looking at it at the show. Really made me smile!

Great news! I've got all 20 SKUS - 3 bundles of larger than 5" squares. Since this collection was not done as a pre-cut set, where else are you going to get all 20 SKUS this way? I'll also throw in my new "Dangling Diamonds" pattern with the 4 bonus QIH designs along with each bundle of fabric. Let your imagination sore!

1. Have you made a ROYGBV quilt?

2. Do you use a method for cutting other than rotary cutter or scissors (i.e. automated cutter, die cutter, etc.) If so, which one?

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Here’s the blog hop schedule:
Monday, February 15 – Caribbean Splash
Bejeweled Quilts
Pamela Quilts
Tuesday, February 16 – London Fog
Moose Stash Quilting
Wednesday, February 17 -- French Roasted
Made In Scraps
Happy Cottage Quilter
KISSed Quilts --did you see my airplane theme here?
Freemotion by the River (Bonus!)
Thursday, February 18 – Crystal Cove
Freemotion by the River
Friday, February 19 – Florida Oranges
Fun Threads Designs
Kauffman Designs
Tamarinis
Monday, February 22 – Coral Reef
Mary Mack Made Mine
Purrfect Spots Designs
Tuesday, February 23 -- Sweet Georgia Peach
KISSed Quilts --yep, me! ...and my own set of giveaways!
One Quilting Circle
Wednesday, February 24 – Hollywood Hills
The Fit Quilter
Maria Michaels Designs
Thursday, February 25 – Desert Rose
For Quilts Sake
Lemon Tree Snippets --did you see what she did with my Dangling Diamonds design?
Free Motion by the River -- a bonus post!

TODAY !! -- Friday, February 26 – Sea Salt Sandy
Bejeweled Quilts
KISSed Quilts- You're here!! Thanks for stopping by!
Moose Stash Quilting
Pamela Quilts
Tamarinis

Mary Mack Designs - BONUS!!! ---don't miss the effect that she created with these fabrics.

Still to come:
Monday, February 29 – Jersey Shore
Beaquilter
Lemon Tree Snippets
Tuesday, March 1 – Tuscany Sun
Tammy Silvers
Wednesday, March 2 – Lavish
Freemotion by the River
Moose Stash Quilting
Thursday, March 3 – Fire Island
KISSed Quilts I'll be back with this 'jewel'!
Friday, March 4 – Tinsel, Holiday Happenings
Purrfect Spots Designs
KISSed Quilts- and wrapping it up with a Heartfelt Holiday
Moose Stash Quilting