Hi friends! Today my post is about ANOTHER new batik line from Island Batik called Summer Twilight!
And yes, I have some FQs to giveaway; I love to share my goodies with you all! See the giveaway at the end of the post. Giveaway is closed! Thanks to all who entered!
Summer Twilight Fabrics
Summer Twilight is a batik line designed by my friend Tammy Silver of Tamarinis for Island Batik. The minute I saw the line, I knew which of my quilts I wanted to recolor it in!
The line has a wonderful mix blues, teal, purple and deep pinks that reminds one of the last moments of a summer sunset.
I am so lucky that I get to play with such wonderful batiks.
Up and Down
I knew my quilt Up and Down would look amazing in her line of fabrics! I just love those bright lines of flying geese!
To offset the batiks, I added a light but not white background fabric.
The fabric is called Rice and it has this soft blue tint to it. Just perfect to set off the Summer Twilight line!
Bonus Mini Quilt
The pattern comes with instructions to make a bonus mini quilt with the leftover flying geese.
So of course, I had to make that quilt as well!
A FQ Giveaway –
Yes, another one!
I love to share what I have and I have a set of the 8 FQs used in this project to giveaway!
Did I mention that Up and Down is FQ friendly? The FQs are for the FG!
If you would like a chance to win a FQ bundle of 8 FQs then here’s the drill: To be entered for a chance to win, leave a comment on THIS blog post.
The giveaway is open until 9pm MT, Sunday May 14th. Which is Mother’s Day! It would have been my mom’s 88th birthday. She passed away 44 years ago but she is always in my thoughts. So maybe in your comment you can tell me who you are celebrating this Mother’s Day; a mother, a grandmother, an aunt, a daughter, a friend …. anyone who embodies the spirit of giving and caring.
Giveaway is open to all with a BUT- if you are not in the US, you must agree to share in the shipping costs if you win. This was a suggestion from one of my Canadian followers who was sad at missing out on the fun, so here you go!
Giveaway is closed! Thanks to all who entered!
Blogs to Visit!
Want to see more projects in this line? Lots of other designers played with the fabrics so go check out their blog posts and quilts.
May 8th: Tamarinis
May 9th: Sherry Shish
May 10th: Me! You are here!
May 11th: Heidi Pridemore
May 12th: Katie Mae Quilts
happy quilting my friends!
Kate
p.s. Like the Up and Down pattern? Click here for the paper version and here for the PDF pattern!
I sew with batiks all the time. I totally LOVE this new collection. I look forward to making my new TOTE THIS BAG using these beautiful summer colors!
Can’t get enough of these beautiful batiks. The colours are absolutely gorgeous. The Up and Down quilt is right up my alley with all those flying geese. Just love it.
Another beautiful collection of batiks! Always enjoy your ideas and patterns.
I even know some of the presenters in the Palooza event! May have to signup!
Finishing Luna—love how it is turning out. Thank you
I absolutely LOVE the colors in this bundle (and of course would love to win it!) Today I am celebrating my mother who passed away in 2019. Loved and missed every day. I also have 3 sisters who are great mothers themselves and of course myself who, according to my son and daughter, am a pretty good mom as well 🙂 Thank you for the opportunity!
Bright and beautiful colors of fabrics. Ideas coming for projects to use these!
Wowser!! Beautiful fabrics. I think I want to make the exploding heart with them.
These are beautiful! What’s funny is as soon as I saw these fabrics I thought of my mom. She loves these colors! She actually became a grandma on May 12 – my sister-in-law gave birth to a beautiful, healthy son. I gifted my sister-in -law a quilt for Mothers Day this year, and it would be wonderful to create a quilt using these batiks for my mom for her birthday in August. Even if I don’t win the giveaway, I’ll make this happen.
Because there are so many people in our family who are not mothers, due to choice and/or health, I’ve sent emails that celebrate all the children of mothers that we are.
And thanks for your continuing generosity on this blog.4
This fabric is SO beautiful!! Today is my birthday and Mother’s Day. My two children live out of town, but I will receive two FaceTime calls. I’m beginning a new decade, would love to win this beautiful FQ bundle. I will be quilting today. My mom is no longer with me.
Such beautiful sunset colors in these batiks! They remind me of Lake Michigan sunsets.
My mother has been gone 34 years and I still think of her every day, along with her 2 sisters, favorite aunts. We’ll spend some time with my stepson and girl friend today.
Love the beautiful batiks and seeing all the fun projects you can make with them!
I adore batiks and these colors!! Wow!! And I love your Up and Down pattern! Beautiful.
Oh what beautiful colors! I have started trying to make more mini quilts and give away to whomever I feel needs a smile. My mother taught me this and this is who I will be honoring this mother’s day. She’s been gone for several years and I miss her every day! Such classic lady! And happy birthday to yours!!
Wonderful, bright, blue and teal batiks are the best!!
On this Mother’s Day, I celebrate mothers as well as others who play such a significant part in raising children…sisters, aunts, close friends. We all have to work together to raise healthy, strong, thoughtful children!!
I just come across ur line & I’m LOVIN ALL THE VIBRANT COLORS!!! I’ve fallen in love with ur Batiks & would love to start my next quilt with ur new color block… I’m hoping for a chance to win, on disability makes it hard to find wonderful colors and longer times to wait for them to go on sale to start the quilt u’ve had planned for months to get started. I’d be in HEAVEN WITH THESE GORGEOUS COLORS!!!
I just come across ur line & I’m LOVIN ❤️ ALL THE VIBRANT COLORS!!! I’ve fallen in love with ur Batiks & would love to start my next quilt with ur new color block… I’m hoping for a chance to win, on disability makes it hard to find wonderful colors and longer times to wait for them to go on sale to start the quilt u’ve had planned for months to get started. I’d be in HEAVEN WITH THESE GORGEOUS COLORS!!!
My dear friend has always been very generous in opening up her family circle to me. I don’t have any children, but through her children and grandchildren I have known so many of life’s sweetest experiences. This year I sent a special gift commemorating her new role: this summer she will be a GREAT-grandmother! Loving four generations of a family is an amazing thing, and I can’t wait to meet this tiny girl.
Oh how I love batiks. These are just Yummy!
I’d feel very, very lucky if I won these.
I’m using that collection for the Studio 180 and Island Batik Ambassador blog hop, which will post on Monday. The colors are so pretty.
What a special treat it would be to win the beautiful batiks. Thank you for your generosity. I hope that your Mother enjoys a beautiful Mother’s Day!
I love the colors in this FQ bundle! The Up Down quilt pattern looks fun! I hope I win!!
Your fabric collection is beautiful.
Hi Kate love those colors. Up and down is a clean looking quilt. So modern. I’m remembering my mom this year. She passed away 1.5yeats ago. I was so blessed to have spent her last 15 years looking after her after my dad died. She was a giving person sewing dresses for strangers. I now make quilts to give away. My mom is my inspiration to giving forward. Louise
Absolutely love working with your batiks—always so excited to begin a new project with them. Thank you for sharing your creative talents and ideas with all of us. You’re truly an inspiration!
Such vibrant, fun, sparkling fabrics! Absolutely love working with batiks—always so excited to begin a new project with them. Thank you for sharing your creative talents and ideas with all of us. You’re truly an inspiration!
I love the colors and quilting is my new passion! It is a great way to use my sewing skills.
More beautiful batiks! Thanks for the opportunity to win! I always celebrate memories of my mom, who passed away at 91 years old, and my mother-in-law who passed away at 100 years old!
Beautiful fabric! Would love to be the lucky winner!
Love those gorgeous batiks!! The colours are so vibrant and cheery too! We are celebrating Mother’s Day with a family BBQ!
Lovely fabrics and they look great in your quilt.
My mother taught me to sew when I was young and passed 23 years ago. My Mother in law, passed 3 years ago at 96 yrs old and lived with us for 2 years before that. A couple months before she passed, she gave me a check to buy a new sewing machine! I am 72 and drawn to the colors. I have only recently tried quilting and have made two. I would love to honor her with a quilt!
Your Up and Down quilt and the Bonus quilt look amazing in these fabrics – like they were made for each other!
What beautiful batiks! I have a precious granddaughter that would love them. She turns 12 this summer!
Lovely fabrics. Lucky to still have my mom to celebrate with.
Love the colors. And ohh I love flying geese…
Wow!! I love how the colours pop!! Love those flying geese too!! Since our kids live too far away to come home, we will certainly chat on the phone to catch up!!
I am celebrating Mother’s Day with three delightful daughters.
Each is individual . They do remind me of the batiks designed by
your friend for this giveaway, full of happy energy, and enjoyment
in the softness of an end of day,
.Thanks for the chance to particpate with you in fabric playtime!
I love batik fabrics
I just love batiks and the colors are so bright and vivid…would love to win!
I love batiks! And those colors!
I love the colors! Excellent pattern as well!
Fabulous colors! They POP with the white background. Pattern sets them off really nicely as well!
I love batiks and the Summer Twilight selection is beautiful. Reminds me of the cool colors needed in the summertime. I would love a chance to make something out of these fantastic fabrics.
I’m a blue/green everything girl but when you add those raspberry/pinks everything becomes yummy!!!
Gorgeous fabrics, and that quilt looks like so much fun! Thanks for the chance to win the fat quarter bundle!
Love love the fabric. Up and down quilt is beautiful. Hope I win this bundle. Beautiful beautiful
Love love the fabric. Up and down quilt is beautiful. Hope I win this bundle.
You have such lovely batiks, and I’ve yet to make a flying geese even though I love them. This is the perfect post!
What a beutiful selection of colours! And, they definitely are the colours of a summer twilight. Thank you for this opportunity to win. Your Up and Down quilt looks lovely in these fabrics.
Loved your quilts , the fabric is perfect.
Oh Kate these fabrics make me feel so good! There are the colors of my flower garden. How could you not smile with these fabrics for any pattern. Thank you.
Gorgeous batiks! Love the contrast in the colors. Works well in the quilt.
I think these are so pretty!! Good luck to everyone on winning!! I would love to have these!!
I lost my mom nearly five years ago. Though I have lots of other women who may have (and may still) mothered me through the years, they are closer to my own age. I’ll celebrate the memory of the wonderful mom I lost, and wish those other mentors and friends a great day!
Love, love the colors!! Thank you for entering me in the give away. These were my moms favorite colors too. I would like to make something to honor her. She was a wonderful mom and my best friend.
Like the Up and Down Flying Geese quilt with these batiks. Nice.
Gorgeous fabrics…love the quilts….would LOVE to make one with these fabrics…
Love your quilt!
Love the batiks! ????????????❤???????? Yes, please❣️
I will celebrate Mother’s Day by quilting tops for hospice. Residents.
The summer batiks will be perfect for a wedding ring quilt for my first (of 8) grandchilden to marry in September.
Those batiks are just gorgeous! Your flying geese quilts look terrific!
Your quilts are so fresh and crisp! Love the colors.
I love the white contrast w the flying geese
Looks like summer
Happy Mother’s Day to all
I love batiks. Their colors and they are great to work with. This collection has all the colors I love. Flying geese are perfect using batiks. Thank you for sharing.
I love this collection! Such beautiful colors and patterns!
Batiks are my favorite fabric to work with. This bundle also includes my favorite color scheme. Love, love, love it!!
I love Batiks and Flying Geese, what a great combination. Of course the batiks make everything/anything look good!
I love Batiks and Flying Geese, what a great combination. Of course the batiks everything looks good!
These are beautiful Batiks! Thank you for sharing.
I love the colors and they really make the quilt fun.
A lovely collection of batiks! I am grateful for my grandaughter & dau in law who are always thoughtful, even though far away, to think of me in Mothers Day.
I am new to batiks and these are beautiful!! Love the quilt and of course the mini quilt. I think batiks are my new favorite fabrics!!
Happy Mother’s Day!
These fabrics are beautiful! As soon as I saw them, I knew I would use them to make my Great Granddaughter her quilt. I lost my Mother almost 3 years ago, but I truly celebrate her on Mother’s Day, and every day!
Beautiful fabrics, perfect for up and down!
Love batiks and that line is simply gorgeous! Striking really, on the white background!
That’s not white! My bad! It’s a great pale turquoise? So subtle…
I just love Summer Twilight. I would love to use it for Luminous.
The batiks remind me of sunset skies just before the sky fades to black. Arizona skies have the richness of batiks.
I love the bright colors and you quilt! My Mom would have been 88 this year also. But she passed away 13 years ago, so I will be remembering her tomorrow.
My favorite colors! Love the new batik fabric!!
You were right, those fabrics look fantastic in your pattern! Love it!
I love the pattern
Back to sewing since my hubby is finally home from hospital.
I love that Rice background fabric! What a lovely quilt, I just love the island batik fabrics. My mother loved batiks, she passed in 2007 and I celebrate her this weekend! She is greatly missed. Enjoy the weekend and thank you for the lovely post!
Wow these Summer Twilight Batiks are amazing in this up and down quilt! I would love a chance to create with these gorgeous fabrics!
Inspiring fabrics! I am making a full sized quilt for each grandchild when they turn 8.
Love your “Up and Down” quilt – especially those tine flying geese.
Really beautiful fabric! This Mother’s Day I will be celebrating my mom and my mother in law, along with all the exceptional moms who are my friends and sisters in law that help me raise my own kids.
I’ve only recently started using batik fabrics and these are some of the prettiest I’ve seen.
I will be spending time my daughter, her husband, and their toddler son!
Your quilt looks fabulous in those fabrics!
Love the fabrics and love the up and down pattern. I have participated in the last 2 mystery quilts and have been very happy with the results. Thanks Kate.
Love your quilts, and the great background fabric used! It is so hard to find plain, light fabric to use as a background in my area.
Should say love the colors
Well doesn’t this look like fun??!! Beautiful remake!
Absolutely I’ve the colors of these vibrant batiks. Your quilt ideas and which fabrics to use are inspiring.
Just beautiful!
Gorgeous colors and quilt!
This Mother’s Day I will be celebrating with my mother, and also with my daughter-in-law who will be becoming a mother any minute now! Can’t wait to meet my first grandchild today! ❤️❤️❤️
What a great giveaway! Batiks in my favorite colors and it might be free! Look awesome in your sample quilt! Bring on summer!
Batiks, batiks, batiks! Nothing is better than using batiks in a quilt
I love the colors. They are some of my favorite.
I am celebrating my mother & mother-in-law this year. My mom was such an inspiration to me. She was so talented and took pride in everything she did. She had a great sense of humor & her family meant everything to her. She has been gone 31 years & it still seems like yesterday.
My mother-in-law was the best a girl could ask for. She was supportive, kind and never interfered in our lives. She was an amazing woman. Sh passed away in 2005. I miss them both every day.
My mom would be 100 this year but she is always with me. On a happier note, #2 grandson was born on April 8th! Now I have another quilt to make. These FQ would be lovely in it!!
Actually I meant # 2 Great Grandson!
The batik fabric and quilt are absolutely beautiful. I love to work with batiks.
My Mom’s birthday is the 15th, so it is always very close to Mother’s Day. We’ll celebrate her 97th birthday on Monday. She was my quilting and sewing inspiration. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.
Lovely fabrics! Great colors!
Oh no! Another wonderful collection of batiks, I know I need to save my money for some. They are fantastic. Your guilt really does them justice. Hope you have a Happy Mother’s Day. I miss my Mom and Grandmother but I have many memories. Best wishes to you and keep up the great work. I’m sure your Mom would be proud of you.
I’m so glad you re-did this one. I haven’t seen it, somehow, and it’s gorgeous. I love FG, so it’s no hardship for me to make many. Thank you for being so generous and giving me a chance to win the FQs.
My mother has been gone since I was 9, and I’m 75 this summer, so that’s 64 years in July. I still celebrate her life, and her contributions to mine. In 9.5 short years, she managed to teach me how to be a good Christian woman, and how to depend on the Lord and trust him, how to embroider, a love of sewing and doing things for others, and so much more. She gave me life and shed happiness on it. Other women come into my life, but she is the queen forever. =)
The Twilight colors make me almost hear the crickets and frogs and see fireflies.
Love the colors in Summer Twilight! Thanks so much for this giveaway!
Great quilt design for showcasing the batik fabrics. Thank you for sharing and the chance to win.
I love batiks and they are showcased so well in your Up and Down quilt!
Oh my gosh, this line is gorgeous!
I love the vibrancy of the colors in this collection and how it compliments your pattern. Darn, another set of fabric and pattern to get. I lost my mother 23 years ago and miss her everyday and I know she’s helping me sew all these quilts!
I love your quilt . The fabric colours really shine in that pattern. Thanks for sharing!!
Beautiful
I really love the mini bonus quilt
Beautiful fabric and great choices in how you used the pattern. I really like the pattern too. The light blue background is probably so much better than a plain white, which would stick out. Celebrating with a boost to my daughter this weekend, then headed home tomorrow to visit my mother on MD.
Wonderful quilts put together exquisitely, thank you so much for showing us your amazing skills and giving us something to aspire to.
Those colours are so lush; I love it! Happy Mother’s Day!
What a great variety of scale in this FQ bundle of summery batiks! The colours sparkle against your light background! My dear Mom would have loved this pattern as she adored watching the “vees” of migrating birds in the spring and fall….and her favourite colours too!
What a beautiful array of batiks! Flying geese are such a versatile unit. Thanks for the chance to win.
I am not a mother, but my mother was a wonderful woman whom I appreciate (and miss) still.
Gorgeous fabrics and quilt! I miss my mom, she has been gone 30 years and I always have her in my heart and memories.
I love how vibrant batiks are in general, and this mix of colors just makes me want to watch a sunset on vacation!
My Mom has been gone for 6 yrs now and I think about her every day.
Love the Summer Twilight Collection! It is perfectly named!
Beautiful collection of fabric! Now I have to blog hop!
The Summer Twilight fabrics are beautiful and I love your design as well. Perfect!
I loved your blog! Happy and uplifting. Your quilt is awesome, love the pattern, although simple it looks challenging. The fabric choices Summer Twilight is great so elegant and perfect for this project.
GOOd mourning , Beautiful quilt and i love the batikes it really makes your quilt pop . I lost my Mother 8 years ago and i ceiebrate my 2 sisters and 2 daughter inlaws . Happy Mother`s day to you and all the mother`s in the world ‘Thank you for the oppertunity and God Bless.
Beautiful fabric! I’m celebrating my amazing mother this mother’s day. She has been gone 22 years and would be 100 years old. She taught me so many things, but her quilting is one I treasure the most.
Love these colors.
Your Up and Down pattern is lovely in these luscious batiks! On Mother’s Day I think of all the mothers that have had an effect on my life. My DIL has been added to the group since giving us our first grandchild last autumn.
I love these bright colors! So cheerful! Thanks fir giving some away.
Beautiful fabrics
Love the colors in this line! Thanks for the chance to win thrm.
I especially liked the mini quilt made with the left overs. I alway have extra fabric and it’s wonderful to make something lovely out of it to decrease the stash.
This is absolutely gorgeous fabric!! Thank you so much for the chance to win this bundle!
I love the colors in the batik collection. It really makes your quilt pattern shine.
I love this line of fabrics – my favorite colors!
The batiks are beautiful and your quilts are gorgeous. Happy Mother’s Day to you. I miss my mom every day. She died 11 years ago.
Lovely quilt and luv those batik colors. I will celebrate my mother who embodied a loving spirit but is no longer with us.
Inspiring. Beautiful fabric and pattern which my daughter would love.
Your fabric is beautiful. I am lucky enough to still have my mom even though we live in different states. I just got home from a 5 day vacation from her house. We did a lot of sewing and just hanging out.
Those Summer Twilight batiks are luscious!
I’m sorry you lost your mother far too soon, Kate. I miss mine, but she made it to 89, so I was fortunate.
Still chugging away at my Luna table runner…
Beautiful batiks!
The colors in Summer Twilight made up a great looking quilt. This Mother’s Day I will remember my Mom with flowers at the cemetery & a prayer.
Fun colors with this line. Grateful still to have my mom around.
Wow, what a pretty line of fabric. I will be celebrating my mom that passed away 22 years ago. She was a tough cookie that knew what she wanted. I will also be celebrating my aunt and mother-in-law. I hope to finish up an easy sewing project for them.
I love all your fabric selections! That’s what drew me to Luna Mystery. These fabrics are equally beautiful!
Is there anywhere to post pictures of the Luna Quilt/runner I made?
I do like a flying geese quilt and those batiks are gorgeous! Mother’s Day will be tough this year as we lost my husband’s mom just a few months ago. We have good memories, but it’s still hard.
This is beautiful!
Oooohh! Beautiful fabrics! Thanks for this giveaway. And I do love your pattern Up and Down and may use my leftover Luna Mystery Quilt fabs to put this one together.
Oooohh! Beautiful fabrics! Thanks for this giveaway. And I do love your pattern Up and Down and may use my leftover Luna Mystery Quilt fabs to put this one together. And I will be celebrating my mother, loved by all who knew her. She was the most giving person I have ever met. Lost her just 5 years ago.
Wow!
Love these batiks and your Up and Down pattern! The colors are so vibrant set off against the light background.
Up and Down certainly does look spectacular in the Summer Twilight fabrics! I’m a Flying Geese lover, too.
This Mother’s Day, I’ll be celebrating the memories of my dear mom who passed away 14 years ago. She still lives on in my thoughts and actions. Enjoy your holiday, Kate!
Oh, How I love Batiks. Please put my name in the hat