Coiled Rope Home Decor for Island Batik
Blog Hop May 2020 - Home Decor
The Ultimate Home Decor Blog Hop and Giveaway is the perfect opportunity to create useful, aesthetically pleasing articles with my most favorite fabric, Island Batiks. I believe coiled rope baskets created with clothesline are quilted fiber art. If the definition of a quilt is two layers of fabric stitched together with some form of fiber between the layers…then these qualify.
Twenty rich colors of deep navy and sparking golds make up the Sundance collection by Kathy Engle. I was task to create a home decor item or items using as many of the fabrics as possible. These coiled rope project used every single fabric and were stitched with Aurifil Blue Combo 50 wt cotton thread. This blue is from the Como Blue Color Builders. Both the fabrics and threads that were provided to me in my role as an Island Batik Ambassador. Yards and yards and yards of clothesline was wrapped with 3/4” strips of fabric using a special wrapping tool my dear hubby created to hold the rope tight. All the wrapping was completed on the car ride back to Michigan from teaching at AQS Quilt Week in Daytona Beach, FL.
Each basket was stitched with a zigzag stitch using an open toed foot on a ‘new to me’ twenty year old Bernina. This machine could stitch through anything and keep on going. It’s set up in my home studio loaded with a size #100 titanium-coated needle and used just for baskets.
Time to add a bit of bling to a couple of the baskets. Using my Whimsical Flower Template and novelty threads, the template is wrapped, stitched and snipped. This produces a flower-like ornament that can be used by its self or layered with other sizes before topping with a button or bead for a sparkling point of interest. Templates are available in my Etsy shop.
Detail photos of the coiled rope home decor items. • Whimsical Flower using two sized of templates • Whimsical Flower with one layer • Door knob basket holding four beverage coasters • Ornate coiled handle on basket cover.
Door Knob Basket - perfect for catching the clutter in any location or organizing your keys, wallet and sunglasses by the backdoor. With a tiny 3’ base, this 5” X 8” basket can be hung on any door knob or hook.
The Sundance fabrics create an ombre look as the darker blue shades blend into golds then yellows. This 4'“ high basket opens to 8” at the top. Organization takes on a whole new look in the family room with remote controls, the kitchen counter with salt, pepper and napkins or the baby’s room for lotions and potions.
Colorful beverage coasters protect your table while adding a punch of color in the den.
This basket and lid combo is the perfect organizer when you want to keep items handy but out of sight. Pop this by your chair to stash hand sewing work or to keep the chocolate hidden!
Life Style Photos
Key Catcher
to organize by the backdoor
Out of Sight
but still available
Two Giveaways!
The first giveaway is my newest pattern, Whimsical Wheelbarrow Art Quilt. For a chance to win a copy of this pattern, simply tell me in the comments below if you would make this for yourself or gift it to someone. Please leave your email within your comments; otherwise I will have no way to contact you and will have to draw another name. Please know that I will read every comment. I will choose a random winner at the end of the blog hop.
A second giveaway is sponsored by Island Batik. There will be two winners, each recieving one of the bundles above. Enter here: <a class="rcptr" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/d463e29d14/" rel="nofollow" data-raflid="d463e29d14" data-theme="classic" data-template="" id="rcwidget_bfgq36zt">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a>