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Sunny Bees of a Feather Quilt
I am so proud of this quilt. I sleep under it every night and it makes me smile every morning.
This quilt is made up of blocks from two Bees that I was in, the first request for blocks was back in October 2012 and then I asked my other Bee group to make me more in January 2013 - the month my third child was born! So it took me some time before I had the blocks all pieced together, more time to piece the back and then quite a long time to hand quilt it. In February this year though I finally finished it and I've taken some more photos because it's far sunnier than it was in winter!
The fabrics are a fabulous mix of bright patterns and colours and the backgrounds are various low volume or subtle colour fabrics. The back is made up of an eclectic mix of fabrics from my stash cut into 5" wide strips and constructed in the same way as a jelly roll race quilt. I basted it with the easy to use Hobbs Heirloom Fusible wadding.
Massive thanks to my wonderful Bee mates that helped this quilt come to be :)
Finished Size: 85 x 100"
Pattern: Feather Bed Quilt by Anna Maria Horner, pieced in my own layout based on the number of blocks I had.
Blocks: Scrappy? Sew Bee It!, Bee A Brit Stingy and me.
Pieced and Hand Quilted by me.
Category: Hand Quilted
Category: Hand Quilted
See the original post here and check out all the fabulous quilts submitted in the Blogger's Quilt Festival. Huge thanks to Amy for organising such a fun event!
Spinning into the Festival
I am linking up for the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side. I love this virtual display of quilts, there's so much talent. If you're visiting from the festival, welcome and thanks for taking the time to read my blog and quilt story!
My entry is Spinning Stars, a baby quilt I made for a friend using Anna Maria Horner's pattern. I was slightly nervous of the template pieces but was lucky enough to have a friend make me some acrylic templates, which made the process easier, although I still spent a long time cutting.
The fabric was a bundle my friend had bought long before she was pregnant but had never used, it was clearly meant to be. She gave it to me and I chose the backing and binding fabric to coordinate. I kept that a secret and she didn't know what pattern I was using either so the quilt was still somewhat of a surprise!
This is the first (and so far only) quilt I've completely hand quilted and I loved every second of doing it. I used Anchor Pearl Cotton, which really helped highlight the shapes of the pattern.
It now happily lives with the loveliest family and has been rolled around on by the most adorable baby boy.
A lot of love went into making this quilt.
Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats
Finished quilt measures : 36" x 54"
Special techniques used: Tremendous willpower in gifting the quilt when I really wanted to keep it
Quilted by : Hand-quilted by me
Best Category : Baby Quilt, Hand-quilted quilt
Challenges
Not big challenges, just fun sewing ones!
I saw this over at Amy's Creative Side:
I've noticed a lot of people in blog land posting about a word for the new year - I wasn't going to but it has been on my mind and after discovering the sewing challenge I'm going with Challenge as my word for 2012. I want to challenge myself to do more, learn more, lose more (!!!), move more and enjoy more. I want to think about things as a positive challenge and see what I can do!
So with that motivation, my challenge for the week is to do English Paper Piecing for the first time using the tutorial and joining in the rose and star block party going on at My Selfsewn Life.
After yesterday's post and thinking about the comments I went and chose some more fabric to add into the blocks (Nicky was totally right!). I wasn't going to use solids at all but after thinking about it and realising how vibrant so many of these prints are it makes sense. Also wanted to put in some more colours. I'm still going for a crazy mix and I want to make some different combinations with these:
I began my epp challenge last night and following the block party I made patterns. I actually already have some templates given to me by my Auntie in the hope I would quilt the 'proper way' (her words NOT mine!!) - she must have seen this coming!! I used a hexagon template and ruler to make the patterns and then photocopied it so I didn't have to do it again!
I then spent a while cutting up little bits of paper, then fabric and got on my merry way:
I got this far!! Realise I've gone overboard with the tacking and will hopefully get the rest done quick so I can get on to sewing them together :) Already though this is proving addictive and now I know why so many bloggers talk about having a project you can take around and do while chatting, watching TV etc. My sewing is pretty limited to nap time and evenings, so this project might take me a while but I love it already and am having so much fun! It's also nice to be able to not be using the machine but still do something productive. Huge thanks to Mary for leading me to the block party and Clare for creating it! :)
I have to say Christmas was sometimes challenging and I'm so glad I linked up to Making Christmas at Rainbow Hare Quilts to keep me on track :) It's the final this week and I'm pleased to say I made everything on my list and more (because I crossed off toys and replaced them with other things!!). I've done mosaics of 2011 (only five months of sewing for me!!) so much of this is familiar but here's everything I made that was for Christmas!
Any one else challenging themselves this year??
My little girl is! And she already knows that real spools are better than toy plastic ones :) - don't you love the vintage, wooden one I just finished using the thread from!
I saw this over at Amy's Creative Side:
I've noticed a lot of people in blog land posting about a word for the new year - I wasn't going to but it has been on my mind and after discovering the sewing challenge I'm going with Challenge as my word for 2012. I want to challenge myself to do more, learn more, lose more (!!!), move more and enjoy more. I want to think about things as a positive challenge and see what I can do!
So with that motivation, my challenge for the week is to do English Paper Piecing for the first time using the tutorial and joining in the rose and star block party going on at My Selfsewn Life.
After yesterday's post and thinking about the comments I went and chose some more fabric to add into the blocks (Nicky was totally right!). I wasn't going to use solids at all but after thinking about it and realising how vibrant so many of these prints are it makes sense. Also wanted to put in some more colours. I'm still going for a crazy mix and I want to make some different combinations with these:
I began my epp challenge last night and following the block party I made patterns. I actually already have some templates given to me by my Auntie in the hope I would quilt the 'proper way' (her words NOT mine!!) - she must have seen this coming!! I used a hexagon template and ruler to make the patterns and then photocopied it so I didn't have to do it again!
I then spent a while cutting up little bits of paper, then fabric and got on my merry way:
I got this far!! Realise I've gone overboard with the tacking and will hopefully get the rest done quick so I can get on to sewing them together :) Already though this is proving addictive and now I know why so many bloggers talk about having a project you can take around and do while chatting, watching TV etc. My sewing is pretty limited to nap time and evenings, so this project might take me a while but I love it already and am having so much fun! It's also nice to be able to not be using the machine but still do something productive. Huge thanks to Mary for leading me to the block party and Clare for creating it! :)
I have to say Christmas was sometimes challenging and I'm so glad I linked up to Making Christmas at Rainbow Hare Quilts to keep me on track :) It's the final this week and I'm pleased to say I made everything on my list and more (because I crossed off toys and replaced them with other things!!). I've done mosaics of 2011 (only five months of sewing for me!!) so much of this is familiar but here's everything I made that was for Christmas!
Any one else challenging themselves this year??
My little girl is! And she already knows that real spools are better than toy plastic ones :) - don't you love the vintage, wooden one I just finished using the thread from!
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