Island Batik - Sock Hop and Twin Baby Quilts

Welcome to Sew Fresh Quilts!  My name is Lorna and I so excited to be taking part in the Island Batik - Sock Hop Blog Hop. 

Each participant has featured their choice of Island Batiks new fabric collections in a Classic Block.

To make my project, I had the pleasure of using these new batiks from the Cry Me A River collection from Island Batik.  Aren't they dreamy? 

This collection has a beautiful variety of colours and prints.

I love the tear drops.  And these sea turtles?  Adorable!!

Once I had settled on the Stepping Stones quilt block as my choice for a classic block, I used my EQ7 to design a quilt.  Then I changed things up and made a negative setting too.

I asked my son Russell for his opinion.  He favoured the one on the left in the positive setting.  But I really liked the one on the right in the negative setting!  It was just too hard to chose one over the other.  So I worked out a plan, managing to make both quilts from the half yard cuts that were provided.

The completed quilt tops were shared in this post.  And a tutorial for the Stepping Stones quilt block can be found here.  For my tutorial post, I shared my experiences using both an inaccurate and an accurate 1/4" seam and the results.  I know you have probably heard it a thousand times before.  But some of us have to learn the hard way.

I wanted the quilting to continue the Cry Me A River theme.  Organic wavy line quilting brings to mind the ebb and flow of a lazy river.

Both were backed using a whole cloth with no seam lines.  And they match!

There was just enough fabric left from those half yard cuts for binding.  I love the look of a scrappy binding!

These quilt finishes were the 24th and 25th use of my 100 labels ordered from

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These twin baby quilts finished at approximately 40" x 50" each and are now listed with my Quilts for Sale in my Etsy shop.  And the Stepping Stones twin quilts pattern, which includes instructions for making both quilts is available for $4.00 for a limited time in my Payhip Pattern shop here.

Thank you for joining me on the Island Batik - Sock Hop Blog Hop!  If you missed any of the previous stops, the full schedule is as follows:


Date               Participant, Blog & Block Project
January 12     Katie @ Island Batik - Introduction to the Sock Hop Blog Hop
January 13     Susan @ Susan Vassallo Quilting Arts - Topsy Turvey Log Cabin
January 14     Connie @ Freemotion by the River - 54-40 or Fight
January 15     Bea Lee @ Beaquilter - Hunter Star
January 16     Linda @ One Quilting Circle - Flying Geese
January 17     Maryellen @ Mary Mack's Blog - Sister's Choice
January 18     Jocelyn @ Happy Cottage Quilter - Nine Patch
January 19     Connie @ Kauffman Designs - Drunkard's Path
January 20     Tammy @ Tamarinis - Pinwheel
January 21     Barbara @ Bejeweled Quilts - Maple Leaf
January 22     Barbara @ Six Gables Designs - Friendship Star
January 23     Nan @ Purrfect Spots - Duck and Ducklings
January 24     Jeanette @ Inchworm Fabrics - Solstice Star
January 25     Lorna @ Sew Fresh Quilts - Stepping Stones

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