Recap of Week One of Lone Star Blog Hop and Giveaway!

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Posted Dec 9, 2022

We loved this week’s parade of seven dazzling Lone Star quilts! We hope it inspires you to pull your favorite fabric and give this striking pattern a go!

In case you missed any of this week’s quilts, we put them all together in a recap. There is a direct link to each post for you to learn more about the designer’s process. Also, some of the Ambassadors are doing bonus giveaways, check them all out! Besides the gorgeous quilt images, there’s a new giveaway, so make sure to get to the end of this post!

This week’s projects featured the following four Island Batik collections:

Baby Bloomers by Kathy Engle for The Quilt Rambler
Bamboo Blooms by Kathy Engle
Chickadee by Kathy Engle for The Whimsical Workshop
Chicken Coop by Kathy Engle

Quilt by Maryellen McAuliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine + BONUS GIVEAWAY!

Quilt by Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail

Quilt by Megan Best, Bestquilter

Once Upon a Midnight Star by Brenda Alburl, Songbird Designs

Selma by Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts

Crayola Explosion by Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

Quilt by Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations

We hope you enjoyed all the wonderful quilts above! Let us know how much you like them in the comments below!

If there is a quilt shop in your city, be sure to let them know how much you love Island Batik collections and Foundations! Please, visit the store locator on our website to see which shops around you carry Island Batik.

For the next week’s fabulous giveaway, we put aside two Fat Quarter bundles of two new complete Island Batik collections by Kathy Engle that will be featured next week – Heartland or Emperor’s Treasures, designed for Tammy Silvers at Tamarinis!

To enter for your chance to win one of these these stunning batik bundles, please follow the easy-to-use prompts on Rafflecopter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway ends on December, 16th at 11:59 pm PDT. Two random winners will be notified by email on December, 17th and announced on our Facebook page on December, 20th. If the winners do not respond within the first three days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen. Please check your spam folders!

There is still time to get your last minute entry in for the chance to win a Fat Quarter bundle of Bamboo Blooms or Chickadee collections by visiting our previous post!

Make sure to follow Island Batik on Facebook and Instagram, so that you always stay updated on the beautiful quilts and home decor items from the talented Island Batik Ambassadors and Designers:

Facebook: Island Batik

Instagram: @island_batik

Check our social media pages on Monday for more projects from Island Batik Ambassadors on Week Two of the Lone Star Blog Hop!

There Are 39 Comments

I love Island batik fabrics. You put together such beautiful combinations. Most of my quilts lately are made from your fabrics. Thank you!!

I prefer to go to a quilt store so I can see the actual colors and feel the fabric.

I love all the quilts-so creative, colorful and fun!

Beautiful fabrics!!

I prefer going to a quilt shop to select fabric so I can see the true colors and feel the fabric.

The Emperor’s Treasures has such rich colors!

I prefer going to the quilt shop so I can see the fabrics in person.

Great quilts this week! I prefer online fabric shopping because I physically can’t get out to a fabric shop. Unfortunately, it’s harder to examine fabrics before buying when shopping online.

I like shopping online. Thanks for this beautiful blog hop!

I like to shop online the most. Online shopping has so many more fabrics available to buy and it’s more convenient for me at this time.. I still also shop at a fabric shop when I can.

The quilts are beautiful and truly showcase the incredible range that your fabrics have. Such amazing interpretation! I would much rather shop at a quilt shop to actually see the fabric. I think you can see so much more than on a computer.

I prefer to shop in person – sometims the colours arent true online. Thanks. Love these quilts

I love shopping at quilt stores, but too many of them are closing down or becoming online only.

I love to go to a fabric store. You can see the actual colors so much better and you get to feel the fabric. Thanks for the chance.

I love shopping in store so that I can see the colors and feel the weight of the fabric.

The quilts in this hop have all been stunning!

Since the pandemic, I do all my fabric shopping online. It is great to know that I can trust the quality of Island Batik fabrics–I can purchase them without worrying about the “hand” or whether the dyes will run, or wonder if they will be thin when they arrive. They are always beautiful and have a lovely feel and quilt up wonderfully.

I preferred in store shopping. Can see the colors if they match better. Can feel the quality of the fabric and know it is “the good stuff”

If possible, I prefer to purchase my fabrics in a shop so I can see the true colors and feel the fabrics. There are not many shops locally for me to do this and their hours/parking are not convenient, so I often shop online. duchick at gmail dot com

Week 2 – In store shopping, you get to see the real colors and feel the fabric. Online shopping, you have more choices.

I prefer to go to a quilt shop, but there aren’t many in my area. So, I shop both ways. It is nice to be able to feel the fabric weight and see the colors in daylight.

I prefer to shop in person, especially when I need to match colors to fabrics I already have. If I know what I am looking for in a solid or a bundle that I have my eye on I will shop on line.

I love to see and feel the fabric in person so I can get a feel for the fabric, no pun intended, lol.

When I have the opportunity, I prefer to buy in person. That allows me to feel the fabrics and choose more wisely.

I prefer to shop for fabric online. I live in the country and it isn’t easy to get to a quilt shop so the online option is the best. Thanks!

I usually shop online because I live so far from any fabric stores.

Very nice fabric…. thank you!!!!

I like to support my local quilt store first. I want to see the fabrics in person, in natural light so that I can see the actual design and colors, I do shop online if I can’t find what I want in the LQS.

I mostly buy online. Too far to go to get to a quilt shop.

I prefer going to a shop but since my area has very limited choices I end up buying a lot online. Love the Crayola Explosion.

Beautiful blue purple coloures

I love going to a store – it is so much easier to be sure you are making the right decisions. However, I am mostly living on an island in Maine and lately have done much more ordering on line. I’m hoping that next year has me getting to quilt stores more regularly!

Oh man!! So many gorgeous quilts and I especially like the first one made in white and pastels!! I’m forced to buy online given my location and distance from quilt shops, but shopping in store can’t be beat! Just slowly browsing is good for my soul!!

I prefer in person to see the colors, try different fabrics next to each other, and to meet other quilters and see what they are working on.

I love to be able to touch and feel the fabric and see it up close and personal. I have purchased a lot of Island Batik fabrics and so I know the quality is great. Because of that I can confidently shop on line to purchase the fabrics that my store does not carry

I prefer to go to a quilt shop. I love looking at all the fabrics, touching them and matching colors. It hard as so many in our area have closed.

I prefer shopping in person so I can see the true colors!

I prefer to go to the store, love to feel the fabric.

I love to go to a quilt shop to fabric shop. There is nothing like seeing irl, touching and just generally getting a colour/design heartful. I really like these Lone Star quilts. They are all so very different, one of my favorite things about quilting. Everyone can start with a similar pattern and finish with unique looking quilts. Makes my heart sing!

I do love to see the fabrics in person in a shop but I also love to look online and see other fabrics that my local shop may not have. I can catch a lot of sales this way as well.

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Recap of Week One of Lone Star Blog Hop and Giveaway!