This week begins the Tool Craze Blog Hop with gorgeous new (think the surprise package we couldn’t show you in our unboxing videos!) fabric lines in collaboration with industry partner, Deb Tucker’s Studio 180 Design! Each of us received a Studio 180 Design tool to use with our fabric bundle! Here is a line up for the first week!
May 1
Susan Deshensky, Lady Blue Quilts
Randi Jones, Randi’s Roost
May 2
Elita Sharpe, Busy Needle Quilting
Mania Hatziioannidi, Mania for Quilts
May 3
Brittany Fisher, Bobbin with Brittany
Pamela Boatright, Pamela Quilts
May 4
Connie Kauffman, Kauffman Designs
Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese
May 5
Blog Hop Round-Up Week 1 and Giveaway
You can start viewing the quilts on Monday, but the first giveaway starts today! To celebrate the kick-off of the Tool Craze Blog Hop, Island Batik is giving away a Fat Quarter bundle of the complete Island Batik collections by Kathy Engle – Let It Snow or Make a Wish! You can sign up via the rafflecopter form below or head over the the Island Batik Blog to enter. This giveaway ends on May 5th at 11:59 pm PST. Two random winners will be notified by email on May 6th and announced on our Facebook page on May 9th. Please check your spam folders! If the winners do not respond within the first two days after being notified, two new random winners will be chosen and notified.
I hope you all have a great week. Enjoy the lovely quilts, and good luck in the giveaway! Until next time…
Thanks Brenda for organizing the blog hop by blogs and days on your blog to make it easier to visit the other blogs. Some others just have a long list of links without the day they are each posting on and I have no idea if they have had their day yet. I find some links are so hard to know where their blog is on their site as there are so many things listed, yet even when I clicked on where it says blog, nothing happens other than showing a small photo in the slideshow. And Brenda you are the only IBA that I know that promotes others on FB. I haven’t seen others do that (I don’t follow them all, but some would pop up in my feed you would think). As far as the question about what factors I think of when choosing fabric and patterns, I first see if it is something I truly want to make and not too large so I can get it done and not stress my shoulders getting it quilted. Colors are the easy part for me to choose and I try to use scraps as often as possible too. Sometimes I will make a smaller quilt like a runner if I want to test out a pattern or make sure it gets done, lol!