Quilt Modern Blog Hop and Giveaway

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Posted Apr 30, 2021

May brings a new Blog Hop! This month is all about Modern quilts, inspired by modern art and boasting bold colors and prints, high contrast and graphic areas of solid color. During the next three weeks of the Blog Hop, our Ambassadors will be exploring the world of Modern Quilting, tryin improvisational piecing, designing minimalistic blocks and using expansive negative space.

Our Ambassadors will be making their fabulous modern quilts with new Island Batik collections and products from our sponsors – Aurifil, Hobbs Batting, Schmetz Needles and AccuQuilt. We hope that you will follow along to see their amazing creations and get inspired to dive into Modern Quilting!

Every Friday we will be posting round-ups of the projects featured during that week and give away 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 fabrics, featured in this Blog Hop, are from the stunning Winter 2020 Collections, that will start appearing in your favorite fabric stores in May! To find your local Island Batik shop, visit the Store Locator on our website, plug in your zip code, and your local shop will appear on the map! Super easy and helpful!

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:

May 3:

Preeti Harris, Sew Preeti Quilts
Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese
Brianna Roberts, Sew Cute and Quirky

May 4:

Joanne Hart, Unicornharts
Leah Malasky, Quilted Delights

May 5:

Jane Hauprich, Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting
Pamela Boatright, PamelaQuilts

May 6:

Andi Stanfield, True Blue Quilts
Suzy Webster, Websterquilt

May 7:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway

May 10:

Jennifer Thomas, Curlicue Creations
Claudia Porter, Create with Claudia

May 11:

Megan Best, Bestquilter
Maryellen McAuliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine
Jennifer Eubank, Archipelago Quilting

May 12:

Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail
Emily Leachman, The Darling Dogwood

May 13:

Michelle Roberts, Creative Blonde
Gail Renna, Quilt Haven Threads

May 14:

Blog Hop Round-Up Week 2 and Giveaway

May 17:

Sally Manke, Sally Manke Fiber Artist
Elizabeth DeCroos, Epida Studio

May 18:

Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs
Jennifer Fulton, Inquiring Quilter

May 19:

Mania Hatziioannidi, Mania for Quilts
Janet Yamamoto, Whispers of Yore

May 20:

End of Blog Hop and Round-Up

To celebrate the start of Quilt Modern! Blog Hop, we are giving away a 2.5″ Strip Pack and a 10″ Stack of the complete Island Batik Forecast collection by Ebony Love of Lovebug Studios!

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 May, 7 at 11:59 pm PST. Two random winners will be notified by email on May, 8 and announced on May, 11. If the winners do not respond within the first two days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen and notified.

There Are 84 Comments

A good beginner pattern is a modern one with huge elements, like a lap quilt that only takes 10 flying geese, so 20 HSTs

Turning 20 is a great quilt for beginners

Sampler quilts are great for beginners because you get to learn a variety of techniques and skills.

I think a sampler quilt is good for a beginner quilter..you get to learn different techniques all in one quilt!

HST’s are a great playground for all sorts of color play and layout fun!

Disappearing 9 patch is great for beginners!

Rail Fence is a great opportunity to use contrasting colors and perfect that oh so important “scant quarter inch” seam.

I like a log cabin for a beginner. Tossed 9 patch is good, too.

I think a simple 9 patch is always a good one for a beginner.

A split nine patch is a good beginner pattern. Thanks

Yellow Brick Road is a great beginner pattern.

The most important part of a great pattern for a beginner is that it excites them. I would suggest something fun, but simple, like a disappearing four patch.

Log cabin is an easy block for beginners!

A combination of ninepatches and squares turns into a great quilt and is good to practice matching seams for beginners.

this will be a fun blog hop

The best for total beginners is putting squares together.

Beautiful fabric. Thanks for the giveaway

I love looking for patterns for quilts for a beginner like various versions of a disappearing nine patch.

My first quilt was a sampler with a little bit of every technique included. Great learning experience.

The double slice layer cake is a great starter block for layer cakes. The jelly roll race is a good one for jelly rolls.

Jacob’s ladder because it is 4 patchs and HST blocks.

Amazing new fabrics, can’t wait to incorporating them into a strip quilt.

Cross and plus quilts are easy to do for a first timer.

Rag quilts are great beginner quilts. Large squares for piecing and quilt each square as you go.

Log cabin is classic and has so many variations! It is really fun.

A simple 9-patch is a great beginner quilt. You can get used to s using a rotary cutter and sewing 1/4″ seams without dealing with triangles.

I started with a Bow Tie Quilt.

Rail Fence is a great block for beginners. No points to match, easy to get good results, and a fun way to play with fabric and learn to use contrast and the color wheel.

A quilt based on a nine patch or disappearing nine patch is a good beginner pattern.

The basic log cabin design is great for beginners and once conquered, you can spin off into a variety of log cabin designs.

Pinwheels are a great pattern for beginners.

Log cabin is a great beginner pattern.

Turning 20 is a great starter pattern.

Rail Fence is a great pattern for a beginner quilter. They can really master the 1/4” seam with it.

A pattern using precuts with squares and/or rectangles is a good option for a beginner.

disappearing four patch is a great pattern for a beginner

I would think a rail fence would be the best pattern for a new quilter. Easy to cut, easy to sew.

A Rail Fence quilt using 2.5″ precuts is a great one! You could also use 2.5″ precuts to make a Log Cabin quilt, the quintessential beginner’s quilt!

HST is my favorite shape for a beginner

Log cabin with scrappy strips!

I like nine-patches for a beginning quilter. There are so many different things you can do with them.

Sewing 2 1/2” strips together-making strip sets helps a beginner to practice their 1/4” seams. There are so many easy ways to cut and use your strip sets to make it your own unique quilt.

Disappearing 9 patch 🙂

Beginner quilts should have larger pieces and start with a very easy block and build from there on skills learned from the first block.

A simple 4-patch lap quilt is a great way to start out quilting as a beginner. It helps the learner to line up seams and coordinate fabrics for a fun look!
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A four patch quilt using charm packs.

These blogs are chock full of tips and delightful ideas and I now have so many more talented quilters to inspire me!

Terry Atkinson’s Yellow Brick Road is terrific!

Rail Fence would be a good choice for a beginner quilter!

A nine patch or variation of a nine patch is a good place to start.
Thanks for the chance to win!

My first quilt was a log cabin quilt from an Eleanor Burn’s book. I didn’t finish it in a day, but it turned out beautiful.

A simple rail fence or charm squares patchwork pattern would be fun and easy for a new quilter!

Rail fence or 4-patch patterns are quick and easy finishes, which will give a new quilter a sense of accomplishment and the desire to try another project.

I think a good beginner quilt is a disappearing nine patch

I agree with Sue G – something with not too many HST or flying geese, and lots of empty space to sew up quickly

The 3 one yard quilt patterns and books are beginner friendly.

Turning 20 is a very easy pattern for beginners. Rail Fence is quite easy too.

Yellow Brick Road, by Atkinson Designs.

Great patterns are nine patches that can give the look of an Irish Chain or a log cabin that has so many settings.

My first quilt was a flannel rag quilt made with squares and 1/2 inch seams. It is a very forgiving pattern for beginners and always turn out beautifully. Thanks!

My first was 3 Rail Fence. It is easy…

Anything without points, angles or lots of pieces in the block. No sense discouraging them on the first quilt!

Log cabin is a great beginner pattern. Thanks for the chance to win. I’m in need of more batiks.

Rail fence! I’m doing one now and it’s really quick.

A great quilt pattern for a beginning quilter is Rail Fence.

A great beginner pattern is rail fence.

Exciting blog hop. Great inspiration for making lovely, fun quilts.

A good beginner pattern is 9 patch or log cabin.

Log cabin is a good pattern for a beginner

A good beginner quilt is one the maker wants to make with fabrics that they are excited about. A technique is difficult only if we define it as hard, otherwise it is just another challenge.

Love your blog hop. So much great inspiration for fun beautiful quilts.

A nine patch is great for a beginner.

Rail fence, 4 patch, 9 patch. All are easy to sew and a good exercise in matching seams and choosing colours.
What gorgeous fabric collections, as usual. It is so fun to see how different bloggers use them. Thank you for the chance to win.

A simple four patch or nine patch block is great for beginners, but a strip quilt is even easier as there are no seams to match.

A beginner should start simple. I would suggest a panel with borders and simple blocks in the corners.

I think that a four patch or nine patch block is an easy starter!

Rail fence is good for beginners.

Disappearing nine patch is an easy one that looks harder than it is.

I like a four patch or nine patch for a beginner quilter.

If it’s a quilt in use, launder it as few times as possible. Launder on gentle cycle using mild soap. If it’s in storage, store in dry place and cover it Make any repairs as soon as possible to avoid it getting worse.

Tips for caring for a quilt – wash only on delicate cycle. keep out of the sun!

Wash the quilt on a gentle cycle with cold water.

I machine wash gentle in cold with quilt soap, most often machine dry on low heat, a few silk are line dried.

Remember, not everyone feels the same about an object as you do. Give you “heirloom” quilts to the nostalgic relatives/friends, and care instructions to the owners of the rest of your creations: Cold water, mild soap, gentle cycle, low dryer, preferably air dry, outside, flat. Hopefully, they will love and use them to rags. (Not AS rags, but TO rags.)

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