Checkered Past Revisted for Blogger's Quilt Festival

Checkered Past

72 x 84

Hand quilted (Big stitching with perle #8)

Inspired by a vintage quilt

Finished August 2017

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1.5 inch scraps alternating with strips of muslin make up the 5 inch blocks. Four five inch blocks make up a ten inch block. The ten inch blocks were then sashed. 

Backing

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2017 at Amy's Creative Side

MoROSE Garden Revisted for Blogger's Quilt Festival

MoROSE Garden

84 x 96

Four inch hourglass blocks using grays and rose-themed fabrics.

Free motion quilted with roses and leaves on my DSM.

Finished July 2017. 

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 Four inch hourglasses in grays plus rose themed fabrics. 

 Quilted on my DSM with columns of free motion roses and leaves. 

Thrift store sheet with roses for backing. 

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2017

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Large Quilts

Bear Foot

82 x 98

Blocks finished at 14 inches. I used swapped four patches and then made HSTs in colors to match in each block. I used 2 inch sashing that just might pass for a bear foot. 

I've seen this block also called Bear Paw but I believe that is actually a different block. (I'm no expert). 

I quilted the whole darned thing on my plain Jane DSM...

...with leaves. (Yes, those are supposed to be leaves). After all...where does a bear poop? 

I'm entering this quilt in the Large Quilt category at the Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy of

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Blogger's Quilt Festival: Scrappy

Petunias

72 x 90

It was made from scraps leftover from...

...this Pickle Dish quilt I made for my granddaughter's hope chest. 

(She's only 10 and she's a pink lover!) 

The pattern was a free one from Anna Maria Horner called Spinning Stars. (I'd give the link to it but it seems to now redirect to her shop and I can't find the pattern there). 

I hand quilted it with regular quilting thread. 

I quilted alternate wedges with vertical and horizontal straight lines. 

I outlined each quarter section of the stars and then one section within that quarter got an extra "once around" 

For the back I pieced together a chevron fabric with similar color scheme. 

And why call it Petunias? Well, the colors and the shape rather reminded me of the Petunias I had on the deck last year. 

I've entered this quilt in the scrappy category at Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy at Amy's Creative Side.    You'll have to visit.  There's lots to ogle.  And there's lots to oooooh anaaaaawh. 

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Hand Quilted Pickle Dish

Pickle Dish

67 x 67

Pattern from Kaffe Fassett's book Quilt Romance

This is a wedding quilt for my granddaughter's hope chest.  (She's only 10 years old now so it will be a few years before she sees it) 

It is hand quilted.  I used stencils to mark some of the quilting and in other sections. 

I'm still working to perfect my stitches. Right now I'm trying for consistent size. Later I will try for smaller and smaller stitches.  I love hand quilting. It is so relaxing and gives a quilt a lovely texture.  And somehow I think it puts me in touch with my ancestors. 

As with most of my quilts...this was a learning experience...curves, paper piecing, hand quilting...I'm hoping I'm still alive when my granddaughter gets married but if not I will be there in the spirit of this quilt. 

This is my entry for the Hand Quilted Category at 

Blogger's Quilt Festival at AmysCreativeSide.com

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Scrappy Wild Thing

Wild Thing

80 x 80

Hand quilted with perle #8

Blocks were made of scraps in complementary colors. 

As you can see from a lot of the blocks...I love novelty fabrics.

These were all last years Block Lotto blocks. 

Some blocks were rather challenging and some were very simple. 

I hand quilted the entire thing in different colors of perle cotton #8. 

Because the front was so busy I used a solid color wide backing so all of the hand quilting would show up somewhere. 

Blogger's Quilt Festival

  This is my entry for the SCRAPPY category.