September Island Batik + Aurifil Threaded Chaos Blog Hop

This month’s Island Batik challenge is the Threaded Chaos Blog Hop, a creative adventure in partnership with Aurifil thread. This challenge gave me the opportunity to use all those fancy stitches that come with my Bernina sewing machine! I'm going to challenge each of you to do this challenge too. I found it to be fun and learned a lot about those unused stitches and find many stitches I love and will use them again!

This challenge started with the fabric collection provided to me to use in this challenge, Island Batik's GEODE GLOW Collection.

I love these fabrics and the rich colors!

Then there's the threads provided by Aurifil, a great selection of colors that go really well with these fabrics! Aurifil is the only thread I use when making quilts. Here's the color information on the 4 thread colors used for this challenge: #1100 Red Plum, #2135 Yellow, 2545 Purple, and

#2785 Dark Navy

I pressed and cut my fabrics into 7 inch squares to start and used a plastic template to cut my uniform pieces for the 6" finished blocks. After the fabric squares were stacked and cut with the templates, i then shuffled each stack so each of the blocks would have different fabrics in each block.

Now the sewing beings... I did a lot of chain stitching which speeded up the process of sewing the units together. Thirty-six individual blocks were made, pressed with my Oliso iron, and then placed onto my design wall so I can play with block and color placement. Once I had every block in place, I started to sew the blocks together into a small quilt, 6 blocks across by 6 blocks down. 

And now the real fun starts! I layered the quilt with HOBBS Thermore Ultra Thin Batting and a backing fabric and was doing all the creative stitches also as my quilting stitches. I tried almost every special stitch that I thought would be interesting in a Crazy Quilt. Here's some close up photos of several of the selected stitches. It did took several days of of working on this quilt using the creative stitches as my quilting!

I'm sure many of you out there when working on finishing a quilt find that your feline quilt inspector has to test out the quilt and let you know they're approval of these quilts. Well, I stepped away for a moment and came back to find Cooper totally satisfied with this month's challenge quilt! 

Now for the BIG REVEAL ... Here's the finished Crazy Quilt!

We'll see you next month with the results of a brand new challenge!

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A very special thanks to all the sponsors of the Island Batik Ambassador program.

@islandbatik @aurifil @accuquilt @oliso  @Schmetzneedles @hobbsbatting @byannie.com

@funkyfriendsfactory @debtuckersstudio180design 

Make sure you are following along with the other 22 Island Batik Ambassadors for inspiration and tips! 

Brenda Alburl - https://songbirddesigns.blog

Renee Atkinson - https://wordpress.com/posts/pinktulipquilting.studio

Susan Deshensky - www.ladybluequilts.com/blog

Tina Dillard - https://quiltingaffection.blogspot.com/

Brittany Fisher - www.bobbinwithbrittany.com

Kimberly Flannagan - https://www.kimberlysquilts.com/blog

Preeti Harris - https://sewpreetiquilts.blogspot.com

Mania Hatziioannidi - www.maniaforquilts.com

Kim Jamieson-Hirst - https://www.chatterboxquilts.com/blog

Connie Kauffman - Kauffmandesigns.blogspot.com

Connie Kresin Campbell - https://conniekresin.com/

Emily Leachman - https://thedarlingdogwood.blogspot.com/

Denise Looney - https://quiltery.com

Leah Malasky - www.quilteddelights.com

Susan Michaels - https://dragonflyfiberart.blogspot.com/

Lisa Pickering - https://lisasquiltingpassion.blog/

Sarah Pitcher - www.pitchersboutique.com/blog-1

Gail Sheppard - https://quiltinggail.com/

Carol Stanek - stitchwithcolor.blogspot.com

Solomae Stoycoff - https://cuddlecatquiltworks.com

Jennifer Thomas - https://curlicuecreations.com

Suzy Webster - www.websterquilt.com

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