Batiks By Design

Roxanne’s Star

Designed by Roxanne Ferguson for Batiks by Design

As featured in Cotton Spice’s Blog as part of their Summer Workshop 

Block size: 6” finished
Fabric and Cutting Requirements:
• Colored Scrappy Fabrics:
o Cut 8 – 6 ½” x 2” pieces from various scraps
o Cut 4 – 3 ½” x 3 ½” squares from scraps, mark diagonal line
• Neutral Colored Fabrics:
o Cut 8 – 6 ½” x 2” pieces from various scraps
o Cut 4 – 3 ½” x 3 ½” squares from scraps, mark diagonal line
Please read all directions before starting.
1. Take 2 colored scraps (6.5” x 2.0” pieces) and sew together with a ¼” seam.
Repeat 3 more times with remaining scraps.
2. Repeat above with neutral scraps.
3. Take a 3 ½” neutral square and place it on top of the colored strips. Place so
that the diagonal line goes from the upper left to lower right. See diagram
below.

4. Sew on diagonal line. Trim to ¼”. Press.
5. Repeat 3 times.
6. Take a 3 ½” color square and place it on top of the neutral strips. Place so
that the diagonal line goes from the upper left to lower right.
7. Sew on diagonal line. Trim to ¼”. Press.
8. Repeat 3 times.
9. Press.
6.5 inches
10. Sew a dark and light rectangle together with triangles at opposite ends as
shown.

11. Sew 4 blocks together, turning them to make either a neutral star or colored
star (as shown).

Sample of quilt -

Batiks by Design is participating in the Summer Workshop presented by Cotton Spice on their blog.  It is from July 21st though August 3rd and Batiks by Design will be sharing a pattern designed by Roxanne Ferguson on July 29th.  Check out their blog for many unique patterns for several different crafts.  So far, there are some wonderful ideas!  Keep your fingers crossed that we get ours done on time.  We think you’ll love it!

Patti

Yes, we found the perfect house, or so we thought.  Guess what?  We can’t get high-speed Internet service and we are going to have to sell it.  No, I couldn’t believe it either.  This house is 7.5 miles from a small city with a state university.  Isn’t this 2008?  We can’t even get DSL through the phone company.  After almost 2 weeks of searching and many phone calls, we have found out that we can get dial-up or 2 way satellite.  Dial-up was definitely out.  We researched 2 way satellite and even the company in Murray that sells the systems told me that for running an online business, it wasn’t fast enough on the uplink and on secure sites.  We’ve put 6 weeks of work into the house – painting, putting in new light fixtures, taking off wallpaper, getting new countertops for the kitchen, etc.  We would researched this earlier, but the information on the house said that cable tv was available.  Next time we’ll check first – if there is a next time.

I’ve been providing kits for a mystery quilt by Kimberly Einmo in The American Quilter magazine from AQS.  The mystery has been revealed and the quilt is beautiful.  Kimberly creates such wonderful designs.  Check out her site at http://www.kimberlyeinmo.com/.  Kimberly’s Hokey Pokey pattern has sold well on our site and features our blue and white traditional batiks!

We’ve added a couple of new patterns.  Check out Calypso, a pattern that we think will look fantastic in Bali batiks!  We also added Borealis which is gorgeous with the black background and bright Bali fabrics, but would also be fantastic with a white background and our blue and white traditionals.  Both of these patterns are from Mountaintop Quilting Studio.  Time to Dine just caught my eye and said make me from traditional batik fabrics!  What do you think?  This beautiful table runner is 18 inches wide and almost 5 foot long!  What a great accent to a long table!.

Ah, I finally got the graphic to insert.  Had to kind of go in through the back door, but it seems to have worked!! 

All the best,

Patti