Saturday 16 May 2015

Spring 2015 Blogger’s Quilt Festival

If you are looking for my FoQ giveaway, go here.

I've been entering the Blogger's Quilt Festival for two or three years now - I love that it brings together bloggers from all over who share a passion for making quilts.

For the Spring Festival I am entering my second version of my Modern Sampler - I stitched along with my classes on this one and it actually was quite a departure in colour for me. I have been keen to try out a darker background and chose a small b & w spot. My other fabrics started off from a fat 1/8 bundle of Kate Spain Cuzco and I went from there, using my stash if I could.

The quilt was constructed in four panels and then joined with wide strips, using QAYG techniques, this was the basis of the course for 2014/15 and if you are interested in seeing some of the others you can view a slideshow of my end of term show HERE

But today is all about me, ha!


The quilt measures 72" x 84" and I quilted it at home using black Aurifil #50 which, stitching black on black nearly did for my eyesight! Wadding/batting was Hobbs 80/20 in black and the backing was Ikea cheapo black & white alphabet fabric. (actually a duvet cover)



It's always nice to have your work appreciated.


I think I shall enter this into the Large Quilts category.
If you have popped over to have a look, thank you, and for those of you who are regular readers, why don't you visit the main site for a wonderful array of quilts, with more being added all the time.




8 comments:

  1. I love it, the colours are so rich and warm and the blocks are so pretty.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Lovely to see this in detail again.
    Good Luck Mrs BPQ! . . . its gorgeous...
    . . . .is Mr Puss missing your quilts?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Great quilt Sheila. I bought that exact same duvet cover with the intention of usingit as a quilt back but I've been too lazy to unpick it so far :)

    ReplyDelete
  4. Love the dotty sashing Sheila! Also I am guessing this is your second version of this quilt as you have been making them along with you class? I have enough for another blocks for 2 - 3 quilts of my Modern Sampler!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Beautiful! Your background fabric is perfect!

    ReplyDelete
  6. What a cute sampler, I love the polka dot you used for the background, it gives great interest to the quilt.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I love this quilt, particularly the dotty background!

    ReplyDelete

Printfriendly

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...