End of Week Three Try a Tool Blog Hop and Giveaway

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Posted Aug 27, 2021

Another fun week of Try a Tool Blog Hop is over! It’s been exciting to see our Ambassadors explore their new tools from Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design and use new Island Batik collections in their fabulous quilts. If you’re new to Studio 180 Design’s tools, we hope you feel inspired to try them in your next project – you are sure to become a Tucker fan once and forever!

In case you missed any of this week’s quilts, you can find them all below! There is a direct link to each post for you to learn more about the designer’s process and see if there’s a chance to win some goodies. Besides the parade of gorgeous quilts, there’s a new giveaway, so make sure to get to the end of this post!

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

Moonlight Sky, designed by Kathy Engle for Kate Colleran Designs, LLC
Peacock Plumes, designed by Kathy Engle for Tamarinis
Proud Peacock by Kathy Engle
Sticks ‘N Stones by Jean Wells

Heading North by Jane Hauprich of Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting + BONUS GIVEAWAY! (made with Tucker Trimmer I tool)

Quilt by Maryellen McAuliffe of Mary Mack Made Mine + BONUS GIVEAWAY! (made with Rapid Fire Hunter’s Star tool)

Desert Flowers by Janet Yamamoto of Whispers of Yore (made with V Block tool)

Hay Stars by Megan Best of Bestquilter (made with Corner Beam tool)

Quilts by Claudia Porter of Create with Claudia (made with Corner Beam tool)

Quilt by Michelle Roberts of Creative Blonde (made with Tucker Trimmer I tool)

Gear Shift by Andi Stanfield of True Blue Quilts (made with Corner Pop tool)

Quilt by Leah Malasky of Quilted Delights (made with V Block tool)

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 Batik Foundations! Please, visit the store locator on our website to see which shops around you carry Island Batik.

For our new and final giveaway, we are giving two lucky people a chance to win a 2.5″ Strip Pack of Free to Fly or a 10″ Stack of Peacock Plumes collections by Kathy Engle.

To enter for your chance to win these gorgeous batiks, please follow the easy-to-use prompts on Rafflecopter!

a Rafflecopter giveaway

This giveaway ends on September, 3rd at 11:59 pm PDT. Two random winners will be notified by email on September, 4th and announced on our Facebook page on September, 7th. If the winners do not respond within the first three days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen.

Come back on Monday for the last two projects from Island Batik Ambassadors on the final Week Four of Try a Tool Blog Hop!

There Are 39 Comments

Quilting has given me a new creative purpose, 1 that I needed badly.

Quilting has given me a creative outlet. Also an opportunity to create hand-made gifts for family.

Quilting has affected my life in many ways…. creativity, socially with guilds and retreats. Giving and donating.

Stunning display of stupendously, beautiful quilts from aesthetically, pleasing fabrics, talented quilters and the right tools to create all the lovelies. Congratulations to all on a job well done!

For me, quilting is a passion, a way to escape from work and to express creativity. Touching beautiful fabrics and imagining what to do with them is heaven!

Quilting has enriched my life . I love the amazing fabric that all of the talented designers have created. It makes all of my families homes more beautiful with the quilts I have created for them, I have yet to finish one for myself though.

Quilting has completely changed my life. I see the world through the prism of quilting. I look at the world around me and see elements of beauty that I can express through quilting. When something happens in the world and I want to make my voice heard, the medium I reach for to do so is quilting. I show my love very often through quilting. I spend my spare time quilting, as well as my spare money. What did I do before I daydreamed about quilts? I can barely remember.

I learned that I too, can be an artist!

It’s a new way to be creative and to make gifts for family and friends.

It helps me use my stash, which I probably would not have in the first place if I weren’t a quilter, to make gifts for the kids and charities, and gives me endless hours of joy/frustration, depending on the day.

Beautiful quilts made with amazing fabrics and interesting tools.
Quilting has given me an outlet to let me be me, in my fabric choices, colours and designs.
Thanks for the chance to win.

I love to create and design things of my own. Quilting has given me an outlet to do both of these And, in the end, I have something beautiful to show for it. Thank you for the chance to win.

Quilting has made me realize I am pretty creative! LOL…plus it has given me a way to Bless others with warm & cozy quilts 🙂

Quilting has given my retirement busy time. I’m thinking of the next quilt I can sew and what fabrics should I pull from my stash or that I just have to buy. It introduced me to blogs where I can see the creative work of other quilters.

Quilting gives me a way to show my creativity.

I have made friends as a result of quilting, and I’ve found a hobby I just love doing!

It keeps me out of an insane asylum…because it calms me

Quilting has pretty much taken over my life! I love that it’s an escape for me from all the chaos going on around me, and it stays done (Unless I have to unstitch something!!).

Quilting has given me an outlet for my creativity and I am able to give beautiful and useful gifts for my family and friends.

Quilting Has allowed me to maintain some sort of normalcy when I cannot control mt surroundings that include the pandemic.

It lets me make something pretty and warming out of just a stack of fabrics.

Quilting challenges my brain in different ways than my occupation. It has taught me patience and provides a sense of accomplishment when complete. It allows me to exercise the creative side of my brain that I don’t always get to use, and frankly thought I wouldn’t be good at.

Quilting is my passion….love the creative life! And great for meeting like minded individuals!

Quilting is my artistic outlet. It is like painting with fabric and thread.

Quilting has given me a new purpose after becoming disabled. I was a professional seamstress but I can’t use scissors anymore. Quilting gives me a creative outlet.

Love all the projects. Quilting is fir creative ideas and new modern or old traditional.

My sister said you are lucky you can quilt. You have something to do in retirement. It is more than that. It is everything to me. I donate at least 50 quilts a year. I love how it makes people smile to receive a quilt. They know they are loved and cared about. My Grandmother always said, “Quilts are Love Letters so write a wonderful letter.”I do my best to honor her words. All my best friends are quilters. They help me through thick and thin. I love them dearly.

What a fabulous bunch of
quilts on the hop! Have so
enjoyed seeing all of them.
Carla from Arizona

Quilting gives me a sense of accomplishment and a creative sense of being an artist in my own way.

As a retired teacher, I have renewed my love of sewing…one look in a re-vamped bedroom will tell you that! I usually spend at least one hour a day sewing and quilting and it’s my favorite part of the day. It’s my time to create, to let loose my frustrations and stress and just do something I enjoy while listening to music or podcasts. I have become a better person (in my opinion) because of quilting.

Since becoming disabled 2 years ago my quilting has become a daily habit for me. It helps me stay active and thinking, I don’t just sit around feeling sorry for myself because I am now limited to how much I can do.

What a fun and inspirational hop this has been.

Quilting has allowed me to be creative and make lovely quilts to give to my family and friends!

Quilting has changed my creative focus and is a very productive way to relieve stress. Most especially, it was a life changer during COVID-19 lockdowns. You can’t ever have too much fabric and I was thankful to have enough to keep myself occupied.

Quilting has made me realize that I can be creative. Also making quilt for my community and any of those in need make me feel fabulous.

The beautiful fabrics keep me quilting. I love to see my finished quilts.

Quilting has given me a wonderfully satisfying opportunity to be creative.

I enjoy these blog hops seeing what different fabrics look like in different patterns. So creative! Leah’s beautiful neutral Tennessee waltz quilt is my favorite.

Thank you!

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End of Week Three Try a Tool Blog Hop and Giveaway