This month’s project is to make a mini quilt with any of the fabrics provided from Island Batik! If you missed the huge unboxing it’s on my blog and YouTube and you’ll see I have lots of beautiful collections to choose from along with batting, notions, and threads. These items were given to me free of charge in exchange of participating in the Island Batik Ambassador program. This post also contains links to products for your convenience, and I may receive a commision when you make a purchase which is no additional cost to you.

This started with Bunny Hill Designs having a 4th of July sale. I’ve adored Anne Sutton’s work for years. This sale revealed a lot of patterns I didn’t know she had available. I hauled quite a few mini-quilt patterns.

Since I love all her work, my pattern pickers were my husband and son. My son chimed in first with “Acorn Soup” and my husband followed suite. My son loves squirrels so that was his choice over the Christmas patterns I thought he’d choose.

This pattern has a nice autumn feel. The perfect fabric to pair with is Island Batiks’ Fall Gatherings along with some other scraps in that color range. Island Batiks always release beautiful earthy collections!

There are hundreds of variations of appliqué. With the tight weave of batiks, I enjoy pairing them with a coordinating aurifil thread and machine stitching them.

With some new accessories from Missouri Star, I decided to have my appliqué turned over rather than raw edge, then stitched down. Remember to use this link to get 20% off your order when you spend $50! Discount applied automatically in your cart, some exclusions apply.

Being a smaller quilt meant more time to spend on quilting! I used 2 layers of Hobbs Premium Polyester Batting to have lots of puff in this quilt.

My go to machine quilting thread is usually Hab and Dash by Fil-Tech 40wt glide thread, but for all the custom quilting on this project, I ventured into 60wt thread. This is a thinner thread, which melted into puffy batting. It quilted like a dream holding up through all the layers and different speeds between regulated and manual modes. I’m going to have to collect every color now!

Here is my project list:

		Where you can purchase
Pattern	Acorn Soup by Bunny Hill Designs	Bunny Hill Designs
Main Fabric	Island Batik – “Fall Gatherings” by Kathy Engle	Fat Quarter Shop and Missouri Star
Piecing Thread	Aurifil Thread 50 wt. Mako in 2600 Dove Gray	Fat Quarter Shop
Applique Top Stitch Thread	Aurifil Thread 50 wt. Mako in 6731	Fat Quarter Shop
Quilting Thread	Glide 60wt Thread in Cool Gray	Missouri Star and Hab and Dash
Batting	Hobbs POLY-DOWN Premium Polyester Batting	Fat Quarter Shop Missouri Star Amazon
Needle	Schmetz 75/11 Universal	Fat Quarter Shop Missouri Star Amazon
Iron	Oliso TG1600 Pro	Fat Quarter Shop Missouri Star Amazon

You can watch this quilt get made on my Youtube channel: “Acorn Soup! Machine Applique Project with Island Batik”

Make sure to tune into the other Island Batik Ambassadors to see their mini quilts this month!

Brenda Alburl ~ Songbird Designs

Renee Atkinson ~ Pink Tulip Quilting

Megan Best ~ BestQuilter

Pamela Boatright ~ PamelaQuilts

Susan Deshensky ~ Lady Blue Quilts Studio

Brittany Fisher ~ Bobbin with Brittany

Preeti Harris ~ Sew Preeti Quilts

Mania Hatziioannidi ~ Mania for quilts

Jane Hauprich ~ Stitch by Stitch Custom Quilting

Kim Jamieson-Hirst ~ Chatterbox Quilts

Victoria Johnson ~ Forever Quilting for You

Connie Kauffman ~ Kauffman Designs

Connie Kresin Campbell ~ Freemotion by the River

Emily Leachman ~ The Darling Dogwood

Denise Looney ~ A Quiltery

Leah Malasky ~ Quilted Delights

Maryellen McAuliffe ~ Mary Mack Made Mine

Lisa Pickering ~ Lisa’s Quilting Passion

Sarah Pitcher ~ Pitcher’s Boutique

Lana Russel ~ Lana Quilts

Julia Schweri ~ Inflorescence Designs

Gail Sheppard ~ Quilting Gail

Carol Stanek ~ Stitch with Color

Sandra Starley ~ Textile Time Travels

Jennifer Thomas ~ Curlicue Creations

Suzy Webster ~ Websterquilt