Beat The Heat Blog Hop!

In Ambassadors, Blog Hop, Fabric Collections, Giveaways, Inspiration, Promotions + Giveaways

Posted Aug 2, 2019

Is it hot in here?

Island Batik is ready to help you cure the Summertime Blues with the Island Batik Ambassador Beat the Heat Blog Hop!

We decided to change things up for this Blog Hop! There will be weekly round-ups highlighting the Ambassadors and their quilts. The most exciting change is a weekly giveaway from one of the featured collections of the week! That gives you four opportunities to win gorgeous Island Batik fabrics!

The fabrics, featured in this month long blog hop, are from the stunning Spring 2019 Collections.

Twenty-seven Island Batik Ambassadors will be sharing projects every week using their “surprise” fabric bundle. The projects created are not predetermined, so we will be as surprised as you! It is always amazing to see the variety of ways the Ambassadors use the fabrics provided to them through the Island Batik Ambassador Program.

All the featured Island Batik collections will be coming to a quilt shop near you soon! Be sure to ask your local quilt shop if they are stocking one or, better yet, all these incredible collections. To find your local Island Batik shop, visit the Store Locator on our website, plug in your zip code or state, and your local shop will appear on the map! Super easy and helpful!

Island Batik collections are curated and include a variety of themed fabrics to create seasonal projects or to fit your style.

Be sure to visit all the incredible Island Batik Ambassadors’ blogs to discover inspiring creations.

Check the Island Batik Blog regularly so you do not miss a thing! The full list of Ambassadors’ names, collections they will be using in their projects, and their post dates are as follows:

Friday August 2
Blog Hop Kick off and first Giveaway!

Monday, August 5
Leanne Parsons
Sherry Shish

Tuesday, August 6
Bill Locke
Lisa Nielsen

Wednesday, August 7
Sandra Walker
Terri Vanden Bosch

Thursday, August 8
Pamela Boatright
Kathleen McCormick

Friday, August 9
Blog Round-Up Week 1

Monday, August 12
Karen Neary
Carol Moellers

Tuesday, August 13
Michelle Roberts
Laticia “Tish” Stemple

Wednesday, August 14
(Debora) Anne Wiens
Gene Black

Thursday, August 15
Tina D Dillard
Bea Lee

Friday, August 16
Blog Hop Round Up Week 2

Monday, August 19
Joanne Hart
Carla Henton

Tuesday, August 20
Connie Kauffman
Vasudha Govindan

Wednesday, August 21
Vicki Schlimmer
Mania Hatziioannidi

Thursday, August 22
Gail Sheppard

Friday, August 23
Blog Hop Round-Up Week 3

Monday, August 26
Maryellen McAuliffe
Jennifer Strauser

Tuesday, August 27
Connie K Campbell
Joan Kawano

Friday August 30
Blog Hop Round-Up Week 4

We are starting the first giveaway today! Weren’t expecting the fun to begin this soon, were you?

Everyone needs color in their lives!

The first giveaway is Jackie Kunkel’s Island Batik Electric Desert Precut Bundle! To enter for your chance to win, follow the easy-to-use prompts on Rafflecopter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway ends August, 9 at 11:59 pm EDT. A random winner will be chosen and announced on August, 12.

If the winner does not respond within the first five days after being notified, a new random winner will be chosen and notified.

Good luck and let’s get this party started!

There Are 145 Comments

I can’t wait to see what everyone has made!

And I DO love precuts! My favorite are the stash builder rolls!

I love all the beautiful projects .

Beautiful fabrics!!

Excited about this opportunity

Woohoo!! Let’s get this party started!!!

Love the colors

The collections are so beautiful.

Love precuts !!!!

I love to use precuts, and batiks are my favorite!

I love precuts.

I have a lot of FQ’s. And am trying to use more of them in projects.

I love some precuts, but not all. 🙂 My favorites are layer cakes and fat quarters. Mini charms are not!

Pre-cuts are fab’u’lous! You get a wonderful sampling of the full collection to create beautiful quilts 🙂

Precuts make quilting faster, plus you get a sample of all the fabric in a collection, so they are great.

Beautiful fabrics. This will be fun to follow.

Wow, what a gorgeous selection of batiks!

Love them! Love batiks and so looking forward to this hop..

I love Island Batik blog hops! The fabrics are so beautiful!

Beautiful fabrics! I do love precuts!

I love precuts! I’ve made two quilts using Island Batik strip sets.

I am so anxious to see all the different projects!

I love precuts – all shapes and sizes – except the mini charms. Your fabrics are gorgeous!!

Love ore cuts especially fat quarters!

I love Jackie’s fabrics. Great colors!

I love precuts!

There are so many beautiful fabrics from last spring. Can’t wait to see what everyone’s making.

I love a mix of precuts and yardage. Gotta have the yardage for borders and shashings! 😉

Love your Fabrics! I can’t wait to see what the ambassadors come up with!

Gorgeous batiks. Would love to make my next quilt from them. I love using 2 1/2” and 10 inch squares.

I love fabric. Period. It doesn’t matter what cut it is. 🥰

Precuts, yardage, scraps…it’s all good!

I love precuts, never can get enough of them. The free patterns are wonderful.

I do like them for the variety you can get in one package. But I don’t always know what to do with them…

Great fun ahead! I love precuts, because we get the full range of fabrics in the collection.

Precuts are fun – it’s easier for me to choose a project for a precut than choose a fabric for a project

I use precuts regularly, primarily 5 and 10” squares.

Precuts in the same shades are fabulous, and with your solids the fabrics go together like magic. I like the ones that have straight edges, and your batiks always are straight and have so little fraying.

I do love pre-cuts, especially in Batiks! Thanks for the opportunity!

Precuts are my favourite, especially FQ bundles!

I like fat quarters but otherwise I prefer yardage over precuts

I do love precuts – they are a great way to build my stash and reduce the amount of time it takes to make a quilt. Thanks!

Sounds like a lot of fun to follow!! Gorgeous batiks!

Great color combinations. It will be fun to see what comes from them.

I absolutely do love precuts and I especially love them when the fabric is Island Batiks! Anything so I can get to sewing sooner!

Love the color wave

I do love precuts. They are much easier to work with plus you get a variety of different colors and patterns.

I love the awesome colors! And I do love quilting/piecing with batiks. They offer so many possibilities.

I use yardage more than precuts but for some patterns precuts are just the ticket!

this is so great! I love blog hops! Loving the fabrics that will be used. Not sure how to get to everything yet but just found it today, 8/3. Thanks for having this!

I am new to precuts, and have not made too many items with them. But I noticed it does save time finding coordinating fabrics, not to mention saving cutting time.

YES!!!! Loooove precuts!! 🙂 Thank you for chance to win your Give-a-way! 😀

This is so exciting! And yes, I love precuts because they save me time. Who wouldn’t love that?

I can’t wait to see all these projects!

Wonderful fabrics!

Yes – I love precuts

I love precuts for quick projects or as a way to see a whole collection. Looking forward to the blog hop.

I like FQs and have used them a lot. I like scrappy quilts and FQs allow me a lot of variety.

I do like precuts but I also like yardage.

Beautiful color.

I adore precuts! There are so many different ways to use them and I truly appreciate having the duplicates as many times ya’ just need two strips or two stacks of the same fabric!

I LOVE precuts!

Neat fabrics! Yes I love precuts!! angielovesgary2 atgmail dotcom

This looks like an amazing Blog Hop. I can’t wait to see the incredible projects. I love precuts since I work full-time it is nice to be able to reduce some of the prep time by having strips already done.

Love precuts since they are a time saver. Waiting like a child for birthday presents to see the wonderfulness to come!

If it’s fabric, I love it!

I adore precuts , can’t wait to see all ambassadors projects!

Thank you for this chance to win! Good luck to everyone!

I do love precuts. Can’t wait to see all the projects.

I love pre cuts. looking forward to seeing all the creations of ambassadors. I always enjoy these hops. thank you for doing this island batiks

Yes, I love precuts! They save me a lot of time!

Can’t wait to see all the fabrics and projects!

I do enjoy precuts, they all make life easier especially when working on smaller scale projects.

I love pre cuts. The collections are so beautiful. Thanks!

I have not worked with any pre-cuts until recently when I found some hexagon cuts at the local thrift store! Very pretty fabric & excited to get it sewn together!

I love precuts! They are a great way to get a lot of variety without purchasing yardage.

Yes, I love pre-cuts. This looks like another great blog hop. Can’t wait to see all the wonderful fabrics and projects.

Love Island Batic fabrics. Thanks for the giveaway.

I love products and use them all the time. My favorite precut is a charm pack but live to use all kinds.

I enjoy precuts. My latest project is using a layer cake and a “cake recipe”. It is turning out well so far!

Yes, I do like precuts. Not a fan of pinked edges, but, I still use them. I love batiks the best–the feel, the colors, the patterns *swoon* Thank you for your generous giveaway <3

I love fat quarters the best!

Beautiful ..luv luv luv it so excited

Yes, I love precuts. It makes cutting a quilt so much faster!

Thanks for a great blog hop and also for the giveaway! I enjoy working with precuts, and yours are gorgeous!

This is going to be exciting. Looking forward to seeing lots of beautiful projects.

I haven’t used pre-cuts much, but I think they’re a great way to check out a new collection!

The more I use pre cuts the more I like them.

Love blog hops and
can’t wait to see all
the creations! I love
using Fat Quarters.
Carla from Utah

This is going to be fun! Thanks again for the great Ambassador boxes, and letting us play with the gorgeous fabrics.

Yes! I love precuts. Makes life so much easier plus you get a selection of the whole fabric line…what’s not to love?

I have not yet worked with precuts other than fat quarters.

Love these!

I have fun creating improve with layer cakes. It gives me a variety of compatible colors and designs for me the work with. I hope to start teaching my creative process in the future.

My kind of colors. And batik are great to work with.

Precut love-of course! When I need a quick finish “fix” or an easy last minute gift, they are a go-to 🙂

Oh yes, precuts make it easy.

Beautiful fabrics!!

I do love Precuts! They make a lot of decisions easier, plus you get a sample of lots of fabrics!

Yess I enjoy precuts….very nice blog hop….can’t wait to see more…. happyness04431@yahoo.com

I love collecting them. I haven’t quite mastered using pre-cuts yet.

Precuts are wonderful to play with. Often a strip or square of fabric will give me the inspiration for a new quilt design. Of course, then it is time to shop for the perfect coordinating Island Batik fabrics! 😄

Always wonderful ideas on a hop with Island Batiks

These fabrics are luminescent. Love them!

I love precuts and Island Batik fabric.

I have never sewn with batiks – yet;)

I do love pre-cuts. They get my imagination flowing for a pattern more so than a yard of fabric.

I love precuts for how quick a quilt can come together!

Beautiful fabrics. Thanks for sharing.

The only pre-cuts I like tp use are fat quarters. I’ve had too many problems with unevenly cut pieces in charm packs and 2 1/2″ strips and I really dislike the pinked edges. So I’d rather pick and choose and cut my own fabrics.

I do use precuts frequently, but yardage more often.

Sounds like a fun Blog hop.

I must like precuts because I have so many. For me, I like fat quarters. I will buy other sizes if a pattern requires them and I don’t want to spend my time cutting lots of strips or squares.