I've never felt I had anything good enough to be entered into the Bloggers Quilt Festival before, but this year I'm giving it a go.
I've decided to enter this wall hanging I made for one of my sisters.
It's an original design, based in a much smaller mini quilt she had seen on my wall and admired. There's paper piecing, improving, appliqué, machine quilting and hand quilting.
It's finished up at 63" x 75" which is hopefully big enough the hide the crack in her wall in her rented house.....
Linking in to the Wall Hanging category.
My new boss is a Christmas freak. No kidding, she's obsessed. I did not know this in the interview - it might have changed things.....
I have now managed to add fuel to that fire, at the same time as selling my first quilt - how exciting is that!
My Cherry Christmas quilt that I started last year and couldn't finish because of a poorly sick Janome is now finished, quilted (although not without great fabric-creeping suffering) bound, rolled up and tied with a big red ribbon, and delivered.
And she couldn't be happier! I took it in on Monday after my week off and every time I turned round (she sits behind me) she was cuddling it! It is now apparently already in use on the sofa, and an order has been placed for a table runner, 6 placemats and coasters.....
All I have to do now is make another one for me.....
Quilt stats:
- Size - 58" x 58" roughly
- Fabric - Cherry Christmas by Aneela Hoey with Kona White backing and binding
- Pieced and quilted with Aurifil 50wt, quilting at around 1/4" - 1/2" apart
Remember this?
Well since you last saw it, I've got a bit more done....
Yet another one I'm giving away and wish I wasn't!
Quilt stats:
- Size - 63" x 75"
- Pattern: my own design
- Fabric: all Kona solids except some Oakshott in the sky and Art Gallery Fabrics Square Elements to bind
- Pieced and quilted using various Aurifil threads.
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