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As an Island Batik Ambassador, we are challenged each month to create a new quilt. For February, the challenge was to make a Magnificent Mini quilt.

Because it was February, I decided to pull red and pink batiks from my Island Batik stash.

I started there, with a fabric pull. Aren’t these wonderful batiks?

The fabrics inspired a theme — hugs and kisses, and that inspired my design (Xs and Os). The Xs are part of the sashing, while the Os are in the blocks. I call my pattern Hugs and Kisses!

I used an Island Batik Basic, Cherry, for ...

I'm on board for another trip around the sun with Island Batik! Here's a peek of the two boxes of goodies that arrived for me last month! The video ends with a compilation of my 2018 Island Batik projects.

Thank you to Island Batik, Aurifil, Hobbs, and AccuQuilt!

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Morning Star, A Christmas pattern

Is it too early to start planning your Christmas quilt? My newest pattern, Morning Star, is a featured quilt pattern for Island Batik’s Candy Cane lane.

Designed by Kathy Engle, Candy Cane Lane, is part of Island Batik’s Fall 2018 collection.  Candy Cane Lane is available at an Island Batik seller near you. Find Island Batik online at Missouri Star Quilt Co. 

Island Batik has provided the fabric for Morning Star and giveaway.

The pattern is available for order by quilt shops that sell Island Batik or contact me at dena@livingwaterquilter ...

As you know, I fell behind on my January Island Batik challenge after my sister fell ill. The last time you saw that project, it looked like this.

The quilt uses fabrics from the Fortune Teller collection by Island Batik. As you can see, I was inspired by those fabrics to create some brightly colored parrots in a nighttime jungle. Included in the collection was a dark blue batik that I chose for the background. I didn’t have much of that blue however, so I needed to do some careful cutting to create a background large enough for my ...

Heading Home  Social Hop

Wow, I am so excited! Please, someone pinch me!  :D As an Island Batik Ambassador I had the opportunity to design a quilt for an Island Batik Fall and Winter 2018 fabric collection. Browse the fall catalog and see all the yummy fabrics and beautiful quilt patterns.

Heading Home Pattern Release

Heading Home features Blossom, a beautiful collection by Kathy Engle. The Blossom collection is available at an Island Batik seller near you. Also find Island Batik fabric online at Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Please note, the Blossom fabric to make Heading Home and the ...

I celebrated Valentine’s Day this week with my husband, so it should surprise anyone that this week has been all about love, love, love. The day started with homemade french toast (and flowers!)…

…and ended with a lovely meal at our favorite restaurant—a local Italian place.

Quilting-wise, I’ve been working on this month’s Island Batik Ambassador challenge, which is to make a Magnificent Mini. Here’s my fabric pull.

Yep, it’s all about love! <grin>

I’ll be cutting and sewing this one next week.

Meanwhile, let me leave you with a collection of my ...

Banner Over Me is Love

Over the years, I have watched my sister’s love for her children in action. She, like many mothers, offer their lives in time, energy, devotion and many untold sacrifices because of love.

For the February Island Batik Ambassador challenge, I designed a banner. Have your heard or read the words, “His banner over me was love”?  A love banner is a public declaration of love.

A heritage of love flows and continues with my sister’s first granddaughter, Ariah and her parents, Amanda and Darnell. Ariah, 7 months-old, had her first Christmas in 2018 ...

Amanda’s Fidget Quilt

Making a child-like activity quilt for my 85-year-old mother, Amanda, was wonderful and emotionally difficult at the same time. Amanda, is a retired nurse, mother of five, grandmother of 10 and great-grandmother of four.

She has vascular dementia.

Cookie, my sister and Amanda’s full-time caregiver, requested I make our mother a fidget quilt to help ease dementia anxiety.

So, I began with Island Batik’s Crystal Ball 10-inch pre-cut  fabric stack. I’m thankful for the generosity of Island Batik, which provided the fabric as part of the Island Batik Ambassador program.

I collected buttons ...

The products shown in this post were given to me by Island Batik.

Our assignment for February was to create a “Magnificent Mini” using any technique we chose.  The only criteria was the size: 24″ x 24″ or smaller.  It seems I’m always collecting quilt blocks for hearts and Christmas Trees. The first thing I do is fire up my EQ8 and start drawing.

Last year I made a heart mug rug.  The drawing above consists of mirror image split rects and two squares that have had the corners popped using Studio 180 Design Split Rects & Corner Pop tools ...

Happy New Year of the Pig 2019

February is Mini Quilt Month in the Island Batik Ambassador calendar: “Create a mini quilt 24″ x 24″ or smaller, any technique” is the challenge we’ve been given. Minis are a great way to try a new technique, or explore resource/time intensive projects on a doable scale. Or to commemorate an occasion or holiday. Like the Lunar New Year. For my first 2019 Ambassador challenge I decided to make something to mark Chinese New Year. Happy New Year of the Pig!

2019 Lunar New Year was on the 5th of February ...

2019 Island Batik Ambassador

I am thrilled and honored to be an Island Batik Ambassador for 2019!  The Ambassador program begins February 2019 and runs through January 2020.

Twice during the program, Ambassadors receive a BIG  box of fabrics and quilting supplies from industry partners. A few weeks ago, a box from Island Batik arrived first.  Then, we had a BIG surprise and received a box from AccuQuilt.

Each Island Batik box contains “Surprise” fabric. Surprise fabric is new NEVER seen fabric collections that will be revealed in blog hops twice a year.

We each received Island batik pre-cuts.  Plus ...

Happy Chinese New Year 2019

Today, Tuesday February 5th, is Chinese New Year and also my 1st Island Batik Ambassiverary. 2019 is Year of the Pig and in the next few weeks we will have several cute piggy appliqués on the blog to celebrate. But first, we get to herald in the New Lunar Year with Colour & Inspiration Tuesday. The Chameleon thinks this is a very good sign for 2019!

And today is not just any Colour & Inspiration Tuesday either. It is none other than the ...

Regular readers know that December and January were bleak months for me and that I did not post my December Island Batik challenge quilt on time. Slowly things are starting to come back to normal, or at least the new normal for me.

If you can forgive me for my lateness, I’d like to show you my December Island Batik Ambassador challenge quilt.

The December challenge was called Whimsical and Wonky, which we could interpret however we wanted. I had several ideas but in the end I decided to make a wonky star table runner.

Some people find wonky ...

The fabrics featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik and Studio 180 Design.

Welcome to Studio 180 Design’s “Twilight Chic Blog Hop”.  I have been lucky enough to make 4 quilts from Twilight Chic line of batiks by Island Batik for Deb Tucker.

For this challenge I chose to make a hunter star quilt from Deb Tucker’s book “Hidden Treasures” using the Rapid Fire Hunter Star Petite tool.  Hidden Treasures offers you 29 different lap size quilt patterns and 7 bed runner patterns for the hunter star.

The same pieces can make very different ...

I wanted to get this post up earlier, but had some distractions going on here today.  So better late than never, I wanted to make the official announcement that I am one of the 2019 Island Batik Ambassadors!

First, let me make my official announcement! I’m going to be a 2019 Island Batik Ambassador! Congratulations to my fellow 2019 Island Batik Ambassadors—-what an inspiring group of quilters I get to work with!

I’m so excited to share another year of beautiful batiks with you. There are many cool Ambassador challenges this year and lots of surprises so fasten your seat belts and hop on board!

If you like batiks as much as I do, be sure to follow me so you don’t miss the eye candy. Even if batiks are not your thing, you ...