Hot Stuff with Island Batik

This month's Island Batik challenge is little different.  In January, each ambassador was sent an Oliso M3Pro mini iron and a felt carrying bag.  For our August challenge, we are to use Island Batik fabrics to decorate the carrying case.

With a blog named after my favorite flowering tree, I knew immediately how I would decorate my case--dogwoods!   While Accuquilt does not have a dogwood blossom die, one of the flowers on the Flower Bunch die has four petals.  I was able to cut an indentation our of each petal to make it look more like a dogwood blossom.   I also used the Stems and Leaves die to cut, well, stems and leaves!  

 

 

The products featured in this post were given to me by Island Batik & Oliso.

 

I used fabrics from Island Batik's always-available Foundations for everything except the leaves.  The blossoms are Carnation, the one darker dogwood is a pink blender, the branch is Roast, and the dogwood centers is Bubbles in Sprout.  I love how the dots in the green fabric mimic the textured centers of dogwood blossoms.

 

I used Heat n' Bond lite for the applique shapes.  I had trouble with it staying on the sides of teh bag; I think it was a combination of the curved surface, the felt, and the fact that the Heat n' Bond was fairly old.  The shapes stuck fine on the top and back, but I could see the applique shapes lifting away from the surface.  My fellow Island Batik Ambassador Connie of Freemotion by the River suggested Aleene's OK to Wash It.  I had never heard of this fabric glue!  It worked great, though it took a bit to peel off of my fingers 😀 

 

So here it is: a dogwood iron carrier for The Darling Dogwood!