Lone Star Blog Hop and Giveaway!

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Posted Dec 2, 2022

The final challenge of this year’s Island Batik Ambassador season is here! This month, the Ambassadors will be using fabrics from our newest collections to create striking quilts for the Lone Star Blog Hop. One of the oldest and most popular patterns, Lone Star offers endless design and color possibilities and we can’t wait to see what they make!

The first two finished quilts will be revealed next Monday, so if you want to try your hand on a unique yet traditional quilt, make sure to visit the Ambassador’s blogs for any tips and tricks to make your quilting process as smooth as possible along with gorgeous detail shots, and… bonus giveaways!

Our Ambassadors will be making their quilts with batiks from the latest Island Batik collections that will start shipping to your favorite fabric shops in January. They will also be using products from our sponsors – AccuQuilt, Aurifil, Hobbs Batting, Schmetz Needles, Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design and Prairie Spirit Alpacas.

Every Friday we will be posting round-ups of the projects featured during that week and giveaway bundles of the new Island Batik collections, highlighted during the hop. Be sure to visit all the Ambassadors’ blogs to discover their inspiring creations, read the stories behind each project and participate in their bonus giveaways!

The full list of Ambassadors’ names, collections they will be using in their projects, and their post dates are as follows:

WEEK 1

December 5

Maryellen McAuliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine

Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail

December 6

Megan Best, Bestquilter

Brenda Alburl, Songbird Designs

December 7

Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts

Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

December 8

Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations

December 9

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

WEEK 2

December 12

Reed Johnson, Blue Bear Quilts

Suzy Webster, Websterquilt

December 13

Gail Renna, Quilt Haven Threads

Jennifer Fulton, Inquiring Quilter

December 14

Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese

Claudia Porter, Create with Claudia

December 15

Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights

Andi Stanfield, True Blue Quilts

December 16

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

WEEK 3

December 19

Mania Hatziioannidi, Mania for Quilts

Michelle Roberts, Creative Blonde Gifts

December 20

Pamela Boatright, Pamela Quilts

Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs

Sandra Starley, Textile Time Travels

December 21

Jane Hauprich, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting

Lisa Pickering, Lisa’s Quilting Passion

December 22

Brianna Roberts, Sew Cute and Quirky

Anorina Morris, Samelia’s Mum

Elizabeth DeCroos, Epida Studio

December 23

End of Blog Hop + Final Round Up

We will begin sharing the quilts next week, but the giveaway starts today! To celebrate the Lone Star Blog Hop, we are giving away a Fat Quarter bundle of the complete Island Batik Bamboo Blooms or Chickadee or collections by Kathy Engle.

To enter for your chance to win one of the two prizes above, follow the simple Rafflecopter prompts below:

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This giveaway ends on December, 9 at 11:59 pm PST. Two random winners will be notified by email on December, 10 and announced on our Facebook page on December, 13. Please check your spam folders! If the winners do not respond within the first two days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen and notified.

Be sure to follow us on Facebook and Instagram to see the 25 striking Lone Star quilts that we will start sharing next week!

There Are 52 Comments

Love all the colors

My very first quilt was an embroidered panel quilt for my nephew. My mom had started it and I finished it for him. I knew nothing about quilting it, but got it done with help from books.

My very first quilt was a log cabin table topper.

Love island batik fabrics…..and the Lonestar!

I think my very first quilt was a hungry caterpillar quilt kit that I made for my kids.

My first quilt was a hot mess!

Quilt in a Day log cabin, about 1989.

Hard to believe my first quilt was just about 40 years ago for my then fiancee. I remember I did it in red, whites and blue but I honestly don’t remember the pattern or even what machine I sewed on at the time. My second quilt I do remember though; it was a log cabin set in a barn raising fashion. It reminded me think of my grandfather and still does. Thanks for the question that sent me down a nice memory lane!

My very first attempt at quilting was a set of attic windows. One of the quilts has a day time sky showing in the windows and the other has a night time sky showing. I have the day one hanging on an east wall and the night one on a west wall. Thanks!

my first small quilt was a doll quilt.

My very first quilt was one I did as a teen when I had no idea what I was doing. It was an applique of two full size shirts and pairs of jeans.positioned like they were laying next to each other. It was awful because I knew nothing about quilting.

My very first quilt was a quilt as you go Dresden plate queen size. LOL I loved it and still use it today 15 years later.

My first quilt, little did I know it was a quilt,was a crib quilt designed by me for my daughters crib.

I made a baby quilt for my nephew.

First quilt was appliquéd clouds

Love all the fabrics! My very first quilt was a Sesame Street Big Bird quilt for my first Grandson. I took the front and back of a pillow panel and matched them between the fabrics and batting. lol It was a pain, but turned out great!

It was a traditional sampler all done by hand….took years to complete!

My very first quilt was made of six inch squares leftover from garment sewing,

I love all of them!

Thank you for the chance. My first quilt was a baby quilt of simply squares.

Love, love, love your fabrics!!! warner.dale@gmail.com

Fun to see all the colorful quilts–beautiful colors as always!!

My first quilt was a quilt was made for my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary.

The very first quilt I made entirely on my own was a crib quilt for our first son.

My First quilt was a dresden plate, 45 years ago!

54-40 or fight was my first quilt.

Would luv any of these collections

Thanks for this beautiful blog hop! My first quilt was made from plain corduroy squares, backed with a sheet, and tied with yarn. 🙂

It is going to be such a fun hop! Thank you ! My first quilt was a log cabin quilt I made when I was 13 with my mom and grandmother!

My first quilt was probably something I made in high school. I think it was a red, white and blue pillow made with 2″ squares. I don’t remember the design. Only the colors. I hand quilted it as that was all I knew to do at the time!

My first quilt, if you don’t count quilted pot-holders, was a lap-sized quilt for my mother.

my very 1st quilt I have never finished. I don’t recall the book it was made from or where that UFO is.

I made my first quilt while in college. It was a simple patchwork quilt made of all purple fabrics with a blanket inside for batting. It was hand-tied rather than quilted. That was over 40 years ago and we still use it on picnics, road trips and sporting events!

My first quilt was done at my first retreat. It was a spool quilt; hundreds of 4” spools (13 pieces of fabric in each). Definitely not a beginner’s project. I never did finish the queen size quilt top. Instead I used those many spools as a border in the first dozen quilts I made. 😉

My first quilt was over 60 years ago. It was a 9-patch made with my Grandmother on her treadle machine.

These collections are fabulous and I love seeing what the ambassadors make from them. My first quilt was a hand pieced sampler quilt.

My first quilt was a log cabin quilt by Eleanor Burns. It was a rose colored quilt that I have yet to finish. It still needs a backing and middle. Maybe I’ll finish it before the new year starts.

My first quilt was an embroidered baby panel that I put away for myself for when I got married and started having children. I was in 6th grade then.

My first quilt was made using templates cut from graph paper, backed with light card stock and sandpaper, then traced on the back of the fabric for cutting…it was such a tedious method and not enjoyable like quilting today! (Nine patch of alternating bear paw blocks and appliquéd bear blocks)

Love the colors and selections!

My first quilt was attic window or something like that. I loved the cats.

My first quilt was a Trip Around the World. That was before I had a rotary cutter!

Love these fabric colors. My first quilt was a Dresden. Lord, I cut each blade with scissors and hand stitched. Learned so much.

My first quilt was back in 1974 and it was simply 5” squares sewn together and hand quilted with the “fan” pattern. So easy, so proud of it. Still have, however, many repairs have been made over the years! Daughter spilled red fingernail polish on it-just gave it more character!

My very first quilt was one I made for my sister in bright red and gold. It was before rotary cutters and I made up my own pattern.

I made my first quilt in my high school’s design/decorate class, and it was a woven kind of pattern, though I don’t remember it’s name.

Beautiful!

I love a Lonestar quilt. These are all so stunning in IB fabrics. Thanks

I love the quilt that Quilting Gail made and the baby quilt she made with the leftovers. Oh and the pencil cases. Beautiful projects.

I made a christmas tree!

My very first quilt was a rail fence for my mother. I made this using cut out rectangles from cereal boxes (in the days before rulers). Rectangles were drawn, with a pencil, around the cereal cut out and cut out with scissors, no rotary cutter. Those were the days!!!

my first quilt was a sampler from a class. one of the fabrics was a print of pebbles (very realistic) and others were reproductions fabrics and the fouth was modern. just things I liked.

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