Christmas RAPPing Blog Hop: April 29 - May 12, 2019

Christmas already?

From Easter to Christmas may feel like a jump, or should I say a hop, but is it? Though we just memorialized Christ’s death and celebrated His resurrection, it echoes to the beginning of the story, and Christmas is the beginning!

Nan and I wrote “Christmas RAPPing – Christmas Quilts featuring Reverse Applique & Paper Piecing”, a book filled with wonderful Christmas projects to celebrate the birth of Christ with quilts. Each holiday project in our book uses a combination of both reverse applique and paper-piecing, hence the name Christmas RAPPing . But when you look at the many quilted projects, you will see several can go beyond the holidays.  Be inspired to think outside the box with your fabric selections. Or mix and match the 4” and 12” blocks to personalize each project!

 We had so much fun creating the designs and writing the book that we wanted to share these great projects with you.

 We asked our designer friends who are or have been Island Batik Ambassadors if they wanted to be Christmas RAPPers and share in a blog hop about the book and the response was overwhelming.

14 Fun-filled days of creative inspiration!

Starting Monday, April 29, 2019 you will have the opportunity to see how these talented designers made our projects their “own” using their creativity.

 The “Christmas RAPPer” designers are:

• Joan Kawano, Moosestash Quilting, https://www.moosestashquilting.com. April 29

• Linda Pearl, One Quilting Circle, https://onequiltingcircle.com/. April 30

• Kathy Bruckman, Kathy’s Kwilts and More, http://www.kathyskwiltsandmore.blogspot.com/. May 1

• Bea Lee, Beaquilter, www.beaquilter.com . May 2

• Sherry Shish, Powered by Quilting, http://poweredbyquilting.com . May 3

• Jennifer Strauser, Dizzy Quilter, http://dizzyquilter.com/ . May 4

• Barbara Gaddy, Bejeweled Quilts, www.bejeweledquilts.blogspot.com . May 5

• Nancy Myers, Patchwork Breeze, www.patchworkbreeze.blogspot.com . May 6

• Vicki Schlimmer, Vicki’s Crafts and Quilts, http://knitbug2.blogspot.com/ . May 7

• Gail Sheppard, Quilting Gail, https://quiltinggail.wordpress.com . May 8

• Michelle Roberts, Creative Blonde, http:// www.creativeblonde.co.uk . May 9

• Maryellen Mcauliffe, Mary Mack Made Mine, http://www.marymackmademine.com/ . May 10

• Denise Looney, For the Love of Geese, https://fortheloveofgeese.com . May 11

• Maria Hrabovsky, Maria Michaels Design, http://www.mariamichaelsdesigns.com/blog/. May 12

 Each day from Monday, April 29 – May 12, there will be a different blog to explore. 

Follow Nan (Purrfect Spots) and I on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and/ or Pinterest to see what our Christmas RAPPers created and what they have to say. Leave a comment with your email address and you will be entered into a random drawing for 1 of 2 prizes: 3 spools of Aurifil Thread, 9 fat quarters from Island Batik and a bonus kit!

We are thrilled to have as our sponsors, Island Batik Fabrics, Aurifil Threads and June Tailor, Inc. who enabled us to create these projects with their beautiful fabrics, threads and helpful aids.

Click on the book title to purchase your copy of “Christmas RAPPing – Christmas Quilts featuring Reverse Applique & Paper Piecing”., in print or digital PDF. Print version is available for our wholesale customers with a 3 book minimum.

Expand your quilting creativity.

We hope you will visit our Christmas RAPPers websites and be inspired by their quilting creativity, too.