Bloggers Quilt Festival

Bloggers Quilt Festival May 2012

Thank You Amy, and all those who participate and help with the festival.

I love the Quilt Festival, and look forward to it every time.  

I am sharing a 

Double Hour Glass Quilt; 

tutorial from cluck cluck sew.

A family friends 15yr old. daughter (who I also worked with in a church youth group) 

wanted to make a quilt. (and some encouragement from me).

I thought about doing something small, especially if its a first quilt. 

But, we decided that we wanted the quilt to big enough to make a comfortable lap quilt, and big enough for a twin bed (for when she leaves for college, she can take it with her.) 

We went to our LQS and picked out fabrics. There are lots of different fabric lines in this quilt. 

And the variety of fabrics makes the perfect scrappy quilt. 

It took us a few quilting sessions to finish the top. 

The top got done, then the borders, and I quilted and binded it.   

The backing is a beautiful patterned white minky. 

This was the girls first time really sewing anything. 

And she did most of the sewing.

I learned that it was REALLY okay, if the points all didnt match up, 

or if there were burn marks from the iron on the white fabric, 

and puckers where the seams got messed up...

These small flaws add character to the quilt (right), and unless its in a quilt show, 

no one will ever notice the small flaws, and the overall quilt it beautiful, which takes your focus. 

I am happy that I had the opportunity to share a talent I have with someone who was interested. 

And it makes me even more happy knowing how much she loves this quilt. 

Now, I've got to make a version for me, because I love it that much. 

January Quilt; Finished

This has been another quilt that has taken some time before I got it all finished. 

It's made from 4 charm packs of Fandango. 

and, inspired by cluck cluck sew's January Quilt. 

(there is one spot I ran out of my binding fabric, so I added an extra charm scrap. 

Not too noticeable; thankfully.)

I quilted it with loopty loops, and put a cream minky on the backing. 

Ruby Table Runner

My Sister made this Table Runner for me. 

I quilted it the same as the square table runner. 

'Coming Home', is the pattern name, its from Camille Roskelleys book. 

And the fabric is her Ruby fabric. 

Ruby Square Table Runner

My Sister made this quilt top, and I quilted it for her. 

Its a gift, for my Grandma. 

This pattern is 'Coming Home' from Camille Roskelleys book. 

I quilted it very similar to the patterns. 

Red and Aqua Swap Quilt

Way back in the summer of '09, I participated with 100 other people in a Red and Aqua disappearing nine patch swap. I am thrilled to have this out of my wip pile. And I love how it turned out. 

I wasnt in love with all the different fabrics that were chosen, most I would never had bought myself. But, they all seem to work together quite nice. 

While searching the internet for inspiration on how to quilt this quilt, 

I came across this Adorable nine patch quilt. 

I Looooved the quilt, and LOOOVED the way it was quilted. 

I love finding quilt inspiration online. (Thank You Jen)

This is my first time using a sheet as the backing fabric.

 I picked this adorable teal sheet up at Target a few weeks ago.

A perfect match for the quilt.  

Hearts and Squares

Happy February! 

This Quilt was started a few years ago. 

Finished about a half year later, 

and posted 2 years later. 

It doesn't help that there is only one time of year to share this quilt.

I love this quilt. I backed it with cream minky. 

It is soooo soft and cuddly. Perfect for a cold February. 

It took two helpers to hold up my quilt for pictures. 

(thanks mom and dad!) 

Bloggers Quilt Festival a Scrappy Christmas

I love the Bloggers Quilt Festival! Such a fun thing that Amy does. (Thank You!) 

I have participated each time (except this spring when life got really busy). 

I always like to share a newly finished quilt. This time the festival was all the motivation I needed to get this quilt finished. I joined a christmas block swap back in the summer of 2009. I put all the swap blocks together with a few extra of mine a year ago. And I quilted and did the binding the last two nights, just in the nick of time to join the festival. phew! So this quilt was 3 years in the making. And its HUGE; 70 X 95. 

Some of you might even recognize your Christmas blocks. (if you exchanged with me).  Thanks! I love this quilt. And so does my husband who prefers quilts that can cover his shoulders and toes. 

I got my inspiration of how to quilt this quilt when one of my friends "pinned" this quilt. 

Diagonal lines mixed with some horizontal lines. 

Perfect for a log cabin quilt. 

This quilted up pretty fast, with all those lines. 

I backed the quilt with a Christmas minky fabric, so it will be extra warm for those Cold December days. 

And I binded with some Mary Engelbreit Christmas fabric from a few years ago. 

Thanks for stopping by. 

Vintage Pink

 Another small girly quilt for my little (not so little anymore) girly. 

I used a bunch of random pink vintage-y fabric. 

Strawberry Squares

I got these scraps of strawberry shortcakes from my moms fabric stash. 

My Grandma made me a blanket with the same fabric when I was little. 

I fussy cut the strawberry shortcakes, and framed each one. 

I love this quilt.

I backed it with a fun yellow. 

(to break up all the pink a bit) 

Chubby Chicks

My (busy) life has gotten the best of me, 

leaving me little to NO time to sew/create. 

I'm eager to start on some projects that are waiting....

Here is my Spring Quilt. 

Chubby Chicks. 

I am in Love.

This was my first quilt;

that I used an actual pattern. 

that I sewed flying geese. 

that took a looong time.

that I sewed buttons on.

and the most appliqueing I have done on a quilt. 

And I still love it. 

I backed it with these cute chickies. 

Happy Spring. 

(even though summer is just around the corner.) 

Pyrex Love

If you love Pyrex, 

you should check out;

Pyrex Explostion Sale

Suki's blog (seller)

and Suki's flicker (Pyrex pictures) 

Definitly worth checking out. 

I just added two of these bowls to complete my set! 

soooo exciting. 

and as Suki says; Pyrex is functional and cute. I couldnt agree more. 

Disneyland fun

Happy

This table runner makes me happy. 

Especially during the winter months; just the right amount of color. 

This is Moda's; Bliss fabric. 

Another one of my favorite table runners quilted in squares. 

My January Quilt

This is another Cluck Cluck Sew inspired quilt. 

I still have to quilt, baste, and bind. 

But being January, its the perfect time to 

share a sneak peak. 

I used 4 charm packs of Moda's Fandango

This is one of the few quilts I have done with no white. 

Valentines

Post by Erica, I put up my valentine decorations, seeing pink and hearts and love make me happy!