Bloggers' Quilt Festival Spring 2012

I am very happy to once again be participating in Bloggers' Quilt Festival hosted by Amy's Creative Side.  This time around I am sharing my "Sarah Ann" quilt (named after my daughter). 

This is not a new quilt.  I designed and made this quilt eight years ago choosing scraps in groups of three matching fabrics for each of the individual blocks, then randomly sewed the blocks together without worrying about colour placement.  That was not so easy for me  - I tend to plan and organized even my scrappiest quilts.

"Sarah Ann" is one of my favourites quilts and it hangs on the wall in our family room

Thanks Amy for hosting this great event.  Click on the button to visit all the other entries in Bloggers' Quilt Festival Spring 2012.

another quilt quilted

Quilting is done and this quilt is ready for binding.


I quilted an all over design (a panto from Urban Elementz) which turned out really nice.

Next on the frame will be this quilt which is a pattern from a several years ago by The Vintage Spool.  My plan is to quilt a feather border, matching feather wreaths in the plain blocks and a stipple background.

Ready for Quilting

Finally pieced together, this quilt is off my design wall and ready to go on the frame.

Quilting Finish 4

My pretty little hearts quilt is quilted and off the frame. Tonight I'm putting on the binding and then I think this quilt will look perfect on the wall in our guest room.

Hearts and Bows pattern is by Judy Smith, published in "Romantic Quilts" from Australian Patchwork & Quilting Magazine (2004).

New Fabric

Here's what came for me in the mail yesterday - a beautiful bundle of fat quarters from my sister Margot Languedoc of The Pattern Basket.  This is her new fabric line called Butterfields and you can see it here on her blog.  I will be busy this weekend deciding what to make with this gorgeous fabric (maybe something with bunnies).

I think this fabric is my favourite.....

Well, maybe this one.....

Oh, nevermind, I love them all - thanks Margot!

Progress

I got lots of piecing done for the quilt on my design wall.  The center and the inner borders are pieced.  Just have to put together the stars and squares for the two additional outer borders.  I am making some progress......

and I did find time on the weekend to load a quilt on to my frame - another quilt top I finished years ago.  The pattern is in a book called "Romantic Quilts" which is a collection of quilts from Australian Patchwork and Quilting. I'm still deciding how I want to quilt it - I think lots of background fill around the heart appliques and in the sashings, but not sure yet what to do in the pink border.

Another Quilting Finish

This is a small quilt I pieced several years ago and it is finally quilted!  The quilting took me most of the day yesterday to stitch (after a trip to the quilt shop for extra thread and needles).  I'll sew binding on tonight and then this quilt will hang on the wall in our bedroom.

Quilting Finish 2

I am so happy to have another quilting project done.  This quilt has been on the frame since December and took a lot of time to complete although I didn't keep track of the actual hours spent working on it.

The pattern is Twilight Hopscotch from Kim Diehl's book "Simple Comforts".  My quilt measures 94x94 - I made my blocks larger than those in her original design (I always seem to make my quilts big). Binding isn't on yet but here are photos of the quilting......

My plan for the weekend is to do some piecing.  I have this work-in-progress on my design wall and am anxious to get it finished so I can quilt it too.

a quilting finish

I've finished quilting a small wall hanging. There are some messy stitches and some not so round curves, but I am happy with the results of my first attempt at this.

The little quilt now has binding and is hanging over the fireplace between the family room and kitchen.  I think it looks pretty up there behind my roosters....