3D - Float Your Hills and Valleys

The December Challenge for the Island Batik Ambassadors is

3D

and

today I'm excited to share

Float Your Hills and Valleys.

As an Island Batik Ambassador for 2019

every month there is an ambassador challenge.

December's 3D Challenge is all about using

optical illusions,

textures, trapunto, or whatever else makes

a quilt pop into life.

For this month's project, I started with a block pattern

I had designed for the

A Time For All Seasons Block of the Month

called Waving Stripes.

I added another column to make the block
12" x 12" finished.

Next, I picked Island Batik fabrics for the 3D effect.

The dark green (BE31-G1) and dark blue (BE21-D2) are batik foundations in the blender collection and the grey and white fabrics are in the solid batik collection.

The light blue in called Bluebird and is in the Freedom collection by Kathy Engle.  

The light green (111932612) is from the Petal Pushers collection also by Kathy Engle.

I cut the pieces for the blocks with the Accuquilt GO! Half Square Triangle-2" Finished square (55712)  from the Accuquilt Go! Qube Mix and Match 8" Block

This is my favorite way to make half-square triangles
and
the accuracy is amazing.
Then I chain pieced all those half-square triangles with
Aurifil 50 wt thread in white.

I designed the quilt in Electric Quilt with 3 of the Wavy Stripes blocks 

I quilted the background of Float Your Hills and Valleys on my Handiquilter with

 Glide thread in white.  

The blocks were quilted with straight lines following the wavy stripes with 

Aurifil 50 wt variegated #4670

The binding is Island Batik foundation blender fabric (BE21-D2).

I love the way this quilt looks against the white wall in the bedroom 

and 

that is where it will stay.

You can find the full list of Island Batik ambassadors posting for the 

3D Challenge

by clicking HERE.

This is my last post as an Island Batik Ambassador for 2019.

It's been a super fun year and I want to thank 

Island Batik and the industry partners, Aurifil Thread, Accuquilt, and Hobbs Batting,

 for the great products and super fun challenges.

The experience has been priceless!