I sincerely hope that you have enjoyed following along the Limerick Blog Hop and I hope you have gotten many great ideas on how to use these delicious fabrics by Island Batik!  I personally am so grateful to all who contributed to the success of this blog hop!  I'm blown away by the talent of all the bloggers, both in terms of the magic they created, but also by the pictures they took, the videos they made, the posts they wrote, and even the poem one wrote!  What great talent!!!  Don't you think they deserve a round of applause?!!! 

And, of course, none of these creations would have been possible without the generous support from the home team, Island Batik, and their amazingly talented Kathy Engle who had a wonderful vision and made all these stunning batiks see the light of day!  Thank you!  I hope you consider making some of these projects using fabrics from this fantastic collection!

I have heard from many of you who participated in this Blog Hop - thank you for your kind words and thank you for checking out all the beautiful projects that have been created thus far from these amazing fabrics!  We all appreciate your participation!  I hope we have inspired you to either recreating one of our projects or use these fabrics to create one of your own projects!   Once you start using fabrics from the Limerick Collection, please share your project with us by tagging @quilterstreasurechest on both FB and IG, as well as using hashtag #Limerick!  If you don't have the fabrics to go with your project, you can buy yardage at your local quilt store or on my website.  My website sells them in half a yard increments. If you wish to buy the fabric as a kit, please email me the name of the pattern and the size that you would like to make and I will let you know the availability and the pricing.

I would like to remind you all about our giveaway!  Please comment on everyone's post (whenever that is an option) and follow us on FB and IG. More information and links to the other blogs are in my first Limerick Blog Post. I will be drawing three lucky winners on February 9th!

To wrap up this Blog Hop, I'm going to share with you the other designs I made using this collection:

I hope you have enjoyed reading along with Dona, Amy, Charisma, Toni, Nicole, Karla, Tracy, and myself!  Thank you for your support, and time that it has taken to participate in this Blog Hop!

If you want to buy a kit or some fabrics from this amazing batik collection, or any of the patterns that I designed to go with the collection, please reach out to your local quilt shop and ask if they have the fabric and patterns in stock.  If they don't, maybe they can order them for you.  You are also welcome to order the patterns and fabric from my website.  If you are interested in getting the exact yardage needed for a project, email me with your request (as a side note: I will be travelling between January 27 through February 4th with no access to my email or the internet.  Those inquiries/orders will be processed upon my return).

Remember to follow us on our social media channels to see what we are up to and be the first ones in the know.  And lastly, don't forget to leave a comment (the winners need to have left comments on all blog posts and followed everyone who made blog posts on this blog hop on social media) for your chance to win one of the three great prizes!

Until next time, 

Raija

Welcome to the Limerick Blog Hop!  Thank you for stopping by!!!  I can't wait for you to see everyone's beautiful creations!  So many talented people volunteered to participate in this Blog Hop and for that I'm so very grateful to them!  Thank you all for your time and creativity!  Make sure to check each day a new blog post made by these extraordinary artists based on the schedule below:

• Tuesday, 1/16/24 Raija Salomaa of Quilters' Treasure Chest and Dona McKenzie of DonaMcKenzie.com (shared Blog)
• Wednesday, 1/17/24 Amy B Costabile of Amy's Quilt Room
• Thursday, 1/18/24 Charisma Horton of Charisma's Corner
• Friday, 1/19/24 Toni Raynolds of PiecedPerfection
• Saturday, 1/20/24 Nicole Merriam of Heart of a Quilter
• Sunday, 1/21/24 Carla Alexiuk of Quilting by the River
• Monday, 1/22/24 Tracy O'Donnell of Tracy O Gotta Sew
• Tuesday, 1/23/24 Raija Salomaa of Quilters' Treasure Chest

​In addition to a lot of eye candy, you’ll have a chance to participate in an awesome giveaway!  The grand prize is a fat quarter bundle of the Limerick collection (the winner must reside in the continental USA).  The second prize is the winner's choice of four downloadable patterns featuring the Limerick collection by Quilters' Treasure Chest.  The third prize is the winner's choice of one downloadable pattern featuring the Limerick collection by Quilters' Treasure Chest.  The winners will be randomly selected on February 9th, 2024.  In Finland we happen to have “name days” and that day happens to be Raija's name day.  It's like an additional birthday without getting any older!  I think that is a great deal, don't you?  I will also be travelling soon after the blog hop concludes, so it will be easier to do the drawing once I get back.

You may wonder how you can win one of these fantastic prizes?  A good question.  You will need to visit and leave a comment on each blog post.  Then, if you have both a Facebook and Instagram account, we would like you to follow each business account (if the blogger provides you the information to do so).  Now, why do you need you to do that?  The answer is simple: We are all small businesses, and getting the word out about our businesses is vital for our survival so we can keep offering and producing new exciting things for you to make and use!  Besides, you will have a chance to be one of the first to see what is new in each of our businesses!  So I consider this as a win-win deal!  Don't forget also to follow the amazing company that has produced these beautiful fabrics (@islandbatik on Facebook and @Island_Batik on Instagram).  Which reminds me, you can follow me @quilterstreasurechest on both Facebook and Instagram.   Also, don't forget to share info about this Blog Hop on your own page and pages/groups that you belong to because a shared fun with quilting buddies is twice as much fun!

​Let's get back to this amazing collection and the projects that were made with the collection fabrics.  Dona McKenzie, who is one of the Certified Instructors for Studio 180 Design wanted to participate in this blog hop, but currently doesn't have her own blog.  So I'm sharing her project and what she said about it here:

​Dona: Living in California, where produce is gorgeous and Farmer’s Markets are everywhere, one cannot have enough bags.
It’s also a quick walk to the beach, where you need to bring a towel and snack, and your sunscreen!

In Raija’s Signature collection's gorgeous fabric, this adorable bag meets many of my needs. The beautiful blues and teals remind me of California skies and the Pacific Ocean. I used the Winslow Tote Pattern by Center Street Quilts and it was quick and easy to make. This batik is a dream to work with!

Raija: Thank you, Dona, for making this beautiful bag to showcase the lovely fabrics available in this collection!

I felt really honored when I was offered a Signature collection by Island Batik!  Limerick, my Signature collection, was designed by Kathy Engle.  And I think she did an absolutely fantastic job on all the design elements as well as the color selection for this collection.  The colors are so vibrant, and they go together so well!  And the designs are equally amazing with lovely knots and other intricate patterns mixed with some playful dots.

During my first blog post on this Blog Hop I would like to highlight one of my very favorite patterns: Treasures of St. Lucia (it comes as a downloadable or a printed pattern).  This pattern comes in three sizes: baby, lap, and twin.  The layout is the same for each of the sizes as only the block size and border size changes.  The quilt is made out of twelve blocks.  The way the units in each block are arranged gives the quilt a beautiful secondary design effect and it is hard to see where one block ends and the next one starts.  This quilt uses all twenty fabrics of the Limerick collection, giving it a truly harmonious and cohesive look. These stunning fabrics, in my opinion, make it look very elegant!  I just love this quilt so much and I think it would make a perfect quilt to make ​and keep or give to a loved one!

I'm a Studio 180 Design Certified Instructor.  As such, I often use their tools to produce the quilts that I make.  And such was the case with this quilt as well.  Can you guess which Studio 180 design tools I used with this design?  Why don't you play a detective and try to come up with the names of each tool that are required to make this quilt and leave your answer in the comments!  I can't wait to see what your guesses are!

Another Certified Instructor introduced me to Seam Align Temporary Glue - thank you, Jennifer!  This glue helps you big time to get all those points to match nicely with each other!  If you ever have a chance to take a class from me (I have some really fun events coming up, including several cruises, a retreat, an online class, and some special events, and you can also hire me to come and teach at your retreat, guild meeting, or at your store) I will show you how I use this glue.  And I bet it will become one of your best friends in a hurry!

I have an Innova longarm that I love dearly.  I quilt 99% of my own quilts, but sadly I don't have time to custom quilt much of anything.  What I have learned, though, is that custom quilting is not required to make a quilt to look like a million bucks. Carefully choosing the right quilting design (if you have a computerized longarm like I do) along with the perfect fabric and quilt design will give you a winning combination!  And I think, in my humble opinion, I have achieved that with this quilt.

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If you would like to get your hands on some of these gorgeous fabrics, ask your local quilt shop or download the Inquiry sheet here. 

Thank you for participating in the Limerick Blog Hop!  Don't forget to leave a comment and visit all of the other blogs in the appropriate days!  I will see you back here on the last day of our Blog Hop!