April's Blocks - A Time for All Seasons

Of course, April showers

bring May flowers.

Carla of Creatin' in the Sticks

didn't disappoint with 

these adorable blocks for 

April.

April Showers

You can find it here. 

Basket Upset

You can find a the pattern for it Here.

To recap the block so far for the 

Carol of Just Let Me Quilt 

Created March's Blocks

 End of the Rainbow

You can find the pattern for it Here.

A Wee Bit of Ireland

You can find the pattern for it Here. 

The February  Blocks

A Piece of My Hearts.

And

Love At First Spike.
Both patterns will be found on my Etsy shop. 

If applique is not your most favorite because

of the all the tracing.

 I have found that 

EZ Print HeatnBond Lite Sheets.

If you haven't used them yet, 
they will completely spoil you.

Quilt Specifications
I am choosing to do all of my
blocks from all the fabrics in my 
stash.
I do have plenty!
like most quilter generally do.
If you are choosing not to use your stash, 
or to check how much background fabric you 
will need.  You will need about 4 yards of 
background fabric.
All the blocks are free for the month that
they have been released.
After that, they will
be available for a small fee.
Each block will be found
on each designers individual Etsy page
or by other means.

We will be have 24 scheduled blocks
with a few bonus blocks included in 
this hop.
There's a Facebook page to share your finished blocks HERE.

The winner of the first month 
link party is   Amanda Best.

She will be receiving a prize from 

Thermoweb.

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

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Lucky Clover Placemats

Hi All!!

I am over at Thermoweb today, 

giving a free tutorial 

on how to make these 

Lucky Clover Placemats.

They are super easy to stitch up.

.

The complete pattern is available for free. 

They also would 

go great with a little table mini that

the pattern is available for 

purchase on my etsy shop. 

So hop on over to Thermoweb and check 

them out.

I would love to hear what you think of them.

Hugs, 

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Bonnie's Blossoms with Island Batik Getaway Hop

Welcome to the Getaway Blog Hop!

The 2018 Island Batik Ambassadors

 have been busy 

sewing with some beautiful 

secret fabrics. 

with some secret sewing.

Today is that day that I am able to show what I have 
been sewing.

Brookview is a beautiful fabric collection by Island Batik.

It has such a gorgeous variety of burgundys, greens, blues and yellows.  

There is a hint of peacock feathers and trees
throughout the prints.
It has to be one of my favorite collections.

Most of the fabric collection is found in this 

new quilt that I created called Bonnie's Blossoms. 

The quilt is 60" square with a lot of large 

applique and surrounded by pieced blocks.

This is the biggest applique design that I have attempted 

to make.  I just love how well 

these fabrics complimented the design.

Check to see if your local quilt shop carries these beautiful 

batiks, and if they don't maybe just request 

that they would carry them.

I did use handy EZ Print HeatnBond Lite Sheets for the 

corner blossoms.  If you do not like tracing out 

the design on to the rolled fusible, I totally recommend 

these.

 The center flower needed to have the rolled fusible 

due to its size. 

For this quilt, I also used 

Aurifil Thread #2370.

I usually try to match my thread to 

the fabric I am appliquéing, but  Joan

of Moosestash Quilting is always

using one thread for the entire quilt.

She inspired me to try it for myself.

I absolutely love the look with this pattern and fabric.

I sure hope that you enjoyed your
stop here on the 

Vicki From Vicki's Crafts and Quilting

is also showing what she created using these 

beauties so stop on in. 

Be sure and stop in to visit all the other hoppers.

The full list is linked below. 

The Island Batik Getaway Blog Hop has been circling the globe since

 the beginning of January and continues through February 1st.  

You can view the other fantastic new Island Batik 

fabric collections at the other stops in the hop here.

Giveaway!

I am giving away a scrap pack of Island Batik fabrics 

and an Aurifil thread to one lucky reader!  

US entries only due to postage costs.  

Enter via the Rafflecopter below.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Be sure to stop in and enter 

the Island Batik Giveaway as well.

You can find it HERE.

This is my final post as a 

2018 Island Batik Ambassador.

It has been an absolute pleasure being able to

quilt with such fine fabrics.

I can't decide which is my favorite project

of the past year. 

I will soon be adding this quilt pattern 

to my new Etsy shop.

Hugs, 

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