Blogger's Quilt Festival

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I am entering my Maple Leaves in the Art Quilt Category at Amy's.  It is a little over 20" and made freeform pieced. The maple leaves were cut by a Silhouette machine and fused on. Walking foot and free motion quilting were used.


I am also linking to Beth, Emily, Judy, Beth, Nina-Marie, Amanda Jean

Sometimes you just have to take it as a win.

The days seem to be flying by this month. All I can claim that I finished this week is doing my entries for the Quilter's Blogger Festival that Amy puts on every year. I have entered my Karin  quilt in the original design category. And my Bark in the Art category.


Earlier in the week I went up North (as the locals say). I got to go to the pumpkin patch with my son and his family!  Then I got to play with my granddaughter and daughter. I also went to a luncheon and then went to my friend's house to play with her silhouette machine.  She cut maple leaves for me earlier this year. I want to do an art piece featuring Aspens.

Fancy pants cutting machine

Aspen leaves

Lisa traced a real aspen leaf and then filled the page with a variety of leaves in different sizes.

Gotta save the scraps!

This will be interesting to see how it turns out.

This is my off the wall and finished Friday post for the week.

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2015 Original Design

Karin

For my second entry in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival I am entering the quilt I designed and made for my cousin's daughter, Karin. I did a similar quilt for her twin sister, Caitlin, featured below.

Caitlin

They are similar in design, and I varied the placement of values.

Blogger's Quilt Festival Autumn 2015 Art Quilt

Bark

I am entering the Blogger's Quilt Festival sponsored by Amy of Amy's Creative side. This is my Art Quilt entry.

Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry #2

This is my second entry to the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side! I decided to enter my Rainbow Utah quilt into the ROYGBIV category.

Rainbow Utah

I made this quilt to honor the fight for equality. Since this was finished, there was a ruling on October 6,2014 and marriage equality is now legal in Utah. I may add some more text with TAP to update this piece.

Ready to be bound

This is my first time working with Trapunto. I enjoyed the process! I am looking forward to doing it again. I hand dyed the rainbow fabric in the center.  The quilting lines are intentionally not straight. The colors are more accurate in the second photograph.

I blogged about my other entry here.

Check out the rest of the entries!

Since what I am working on cannot be shown publicly yet, this will have to do for my Design Wall Monday post this week.

Blogger's Quilt Festival

I am excited to enter the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side! I decided to enter two quilts. This entry will go in the art category. This is my second boat using these fabrics. They are all hand dyed with the exception of the batik binding. I used the leftovers from the original boat. I just started sewing all the pieces together and I ended up with another boat!

Odin II

Auditioning the parts

Sewn together

D cup

After I had it quilted, it had a huge bulge in the center. So I decided to block it before I trimmed the edges.

Dye run

I laid the piece on the ironing board and spritzed the bottom half with water. Let is set for a few minutes and then steamed it flat. Moved the piece and spritzed the top half. After letting it set for a few minutes I cam back to find that the orange dye had run into the sky. It showed up in several spots. So I made a plead to my friend and found out you can get it out using Dawn natural essentials. I used a small washtub, added a bit of the dawn to some warm water and then soaked the piece. After a few minutes I went to check and Voila! The run was gone! I then blocked it again, trimmed and then bound it.

My Name

I am not good at free motion quilting. I do try to hid my name somewhere in the piece when doing free motion. This piece combined walking foot quilting with the free motion.

I am blogging about my second entry here.


This is my off the wall post for this week.

Check out all the quilts at the festival!

Blogger's Quilt Festival entry!

September

I am excited to join in the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy at her blog! I meant to get this up yesterday but alas, more internet connection issues. We had a horrible wind storm and I think that might have had something to do with the problems.

This is my entry into the Home Machine Quilted division.  I named it "September" because I made in September.  It is made by a quilt as you go method. I have wanted to try out this technique and so I had a wild couple of extremely wonderful sewing days and this quilt just flew together!  Except for the 1/2 yard of black for the binding, it was "free" from my stash.  Including the batting and backing.  I used strips from my 2-1/2 inch strip scrap bag to piece the blocks.

Check out all the wonderful quilts that have been entered into this category at the festival!

Close up of the quilting

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Peaceful Woods

I saw that Amy with Amy's Creative Side is having another online Quilt Festival and decided to participate. 

I made this piece in December for a friend's birthday.  It is 12"x12".  I layered some fabrics to look like woods and then covered it with some netting before quilting it.  I added some dragonfly charms and used a wood grain fabric for the binding.  It was a rewarding piece to work on, I made it in 3 or 4 days.  It was for her birthday, 12-12-2012.

I am entering it in the Art Quilt Category.  Thanks for stopping by!  Check out the main page at  Amy's blog.