Bloggers Quilt Festival

Welcome to all my lovely readers old and new! I am linking up to the Bloggers Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side, so apologies to all my regular followers who have already read about this quilt.

The colours are much more vibrant in RL, I had to take the photos in a short interval before the rain started again – don’t let that chink of blue sky fool you!



I made this quilt for my Mum’s 60th Birthday back in May and actually it is the only quilt that I have finished this year!The pattern is from a 2010 quilt-a-along by Audrie at Blue is Bleu that I came across whilst searching for inspiration, I am so proud of this quilt, I really developed my piecing-skills during the making of it.



I have only made a handful of quilts previous to this and most of them were from jelly rolls.  In fact the first two quilts that I made are still sadly waiting for me to quilt them!  So you wont be surprised that I sent this quilt away to Christine at Father’s Heart Quilting. 



She did an amazing job and turned my quilt into a work of art! She used an all-over meandering daisy, taking inspiration from the embroidered daisies on the centre panel.



For the centre panel, I used templates from Janet Clare’s gorgeous book “Freya and Fred” to applique my Mum’s Grandsons and dog onto an old embroidered linen tray-cloth. The fabrics were bought in a sale at my LQS so I have no idea which lines/makes they are – sorry.  The yellow solid is Kona Cotton bought from Backstitch here in the UK and the backing is a 100% cotton duvet cover from TK Max.



QUILT STATS
Quilt Name – erm will “Mum’s 60th Birthday Surprise” do????
Pattern  2010 Quilt-a-long by Audrie at Blue is Bleu
Pieced by Me
Quilted by Christine Marriage at Fathers Heart Quilting
Size - before quilting it was 70X83 inches. I didn't measure it afterwards.(it was only supposed to finish at 66X78)

Original Post, and here, and here

Best Catagory - Best Applique, Best Bed Quilt, Best Professional Quilting???



Thank you for visiting today, you are welcome to stick around and have a nose.  I very occasionally blog about my crafty makes here (I tell people that I have a blog but I am not a blogger) so don’t expect me to be clogging up your feed reader to often