A Day in the Life of Raising Six Munchkins: blogger's quilt festival

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Saturday, May 18, 2013

Blogger Quilt Festival: My Entry #2

This quilt is my second entry. I'll be entering this in the group or bee quilt category. It was made by my bee mates in the Comfort Quilts Bee for a little guy, Blake, who was diagnosed with Leukemia. The colors were meant to be bright and boyish as he is only 2 years old.

Stats:

Size: Roughly 48" x 48"

Pieced and Quilted by Me with each individual block pieced by individual bee mates

Blogger Quilt Festival: My Entry

Well, I decided to throw my hat in the ring and enter this quilt into the contest under the baby quilt category. I made this quilt for a friend of mine. You can read more on that in this post. This quilt was a first for me in that I'd never done as much intense machine quilting before! The lines are about 1/2" apart. It took me a lot longer than I expected to quilt it, to say the least!

Stats:

Quilt measurement: 40 " x 40"

Special Techniques: All those lines I machine quilted on my home machine

Quilted by: Me!

Friday, May 17, 2013

Blogger's Quilt Festival Opens Today!

It's that time of year again! Over at Amy's Creative Side, we are having the semi-annual blogger quilt festival! What exactly is it you may ask? It's bloggers from all over submitting quilts that they've made into one of many categories for others to vote on!

Here is a quote from Amy's site to explain how it works:

"As the Festival continues to grow, the organization of the Festival continues to evolve. To simplify the nomination and voting processes, and keep everyone from being overwhelmed by the volume of links, there will be a linky for each category, each with it’s own post. I have conceded that each quilter may enter up to two quilts, each with it’s own post, in separate categories. Scroll down for links to each category.

Schedule of Events :

May 17 – 24 – Linky’s Open & Nominate for Viewer’s Choice on this post

May 24 – 30 – Vote for favorites in each of the categories

May 31 – Winners announced

With each category having it’s own linky, the need to nominate a favorite quilt in each category is eliminated. Once the linky is done collecting your posts, everyone will be able to vote for a favorite in each category."

This time around, I'm sponsoring the prize for the winner in the Wall Hanging category. I'll be giving away a copy of Tula Pink's City Sampler as well as some FQs from my stash.

So, head on over and vote for your favorite quilts! I know I will!

Monday, November 19, 2012

Sew Modern Monday

I figured I should write a post and link up over at Sew Modern Monday since I actually have some finishes to share!

My Modern Mini Mystery Round Robin Quilt (see post for more info)

A custom-ordered Project bag for the shop:

An upcycled pouch for my daughter out of shorts she outgrew:

A tote bag for a friend using a tutorial from Poppyseed Fabrics:

An Everyday Bag for the winner of the Best Bed Quilt Category over at the Blogger's Quilt Festival:

Phew! I'm so glad to have accomplished so much this past week! I have much more to do and am excited to get to them! Have a Happy Thanksgiving! (to all of you in the U.S.)

Friday, October 26, 2012

Blogger Quilt Festival

Well, the semi-annual festival is here! I am so excited about this year as I'm one of it's sponsors! If you win in 'my' category, you'll receive an Everyday bag (Jeni's design) as well as some FQs.

Onto my submission: It's a throw/lap quilt that I made as a gift for my sister and brother-in-law for their wedding. I had bought all the materials way back when distant pickles was doing a QAL for their Cosmic Burst pattern, but never got around to it! Well, with their wedding this past weekend, I needed to get it done! I used Pure by Sweetwater, a Kona Brown ( I think it's chocolate?), and Kona Bone. I used a simple diagonal quilting on it so it wasn't too busy.