My December Island Batik Ambassador project

Hi friends!

This month the theme for the Island Batik ambassador project was called Table Scraps.

Too funny.

Well, I guess it is only funny if you happen to know that I already have a table runner pattern called Table Scraps! I did not use that pattern for this challenge though. I knew I should come up with something new.

So I decided to try a little improv. First I selected this roll of batik fabrics because it had red and green in it.

Seemed appropriate.

Then I went to my stash of Island Batik scraps from the other challenges and grabbed reds of varying shades, greens and a few blues. I also grabbed some whites.

Then I had to make a plan. My plan was to make “improv” blocks in 2 different sizes in 2 different colors using 2 different piecing styles. For the smaller set of blocks, I used some of the reds and made a few four patch blocks.

Next, I grabbed my rotary cutter and sliced across the blocks, added a strip of the golden fabric.

I trimmed the blocks, then so not to waste anything, sewed the trimmed bits together with more pieces of the golden fabric, trimmed ….. and ended up with 10 small red blocks.

Don’t the red blocks look a little bit like presents?

For the second bigger block, I took the strips of different greens and blues and started sewing them together. Once I had a piece big enough, I cut out squares keeping the strips on an angle. I made 6 of these bigger blocks.

Then I sewed them all together, putting pieces of the various white batiks in between the pieced blocks. Then I used a 40 wt green Aurifil thread, a 50 wt red Aurifil thread and an 50 wt off white Aurifil thread to quilt the whole thing.