Blogger's Quilt Festival

I thought I might join in the fun and submit one of my quilt for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  This is my first time participating and I think it's such a fantastic idea to see creative, beautiful and amazing quilts out there.

Here's my submission for the baby quilt's section.

A baby quilt that I have recently made as a commissioned quilt.

A simple set on point modern baby quilt that is suitable for both gender.

The fabric line is called 'Modern Bliss'.  The colours and prints are bold, bright and playful which is wonderful for those cheeky, playful and adorable growing babies.

I kept with the simplicity of the quilt design by simple diagonal quilting lines.

A simple scalloped navy print binding picking up the scallop print on the fabric

And for the backing I have selected a print that related to the spirit of adventure and journey as they start to learn and form ideas in their ever inquisitive minds.

More information of materials, fabrics and finished quilt size can be found here

Here is the link to the Blogger's Quilt Festival website.  Come join the fun!

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Pinkylicious Wunderland

This was one of my very first commissioned quilt that I couldn't share until the customer passed it on to her friend.  Got the OK yesterday that I can blog about it till my heart content!  It was a commissioned quilt as a gift to the customer's friend.

Happy to say that the recipient is super happy with the quilt and it is always nice to hear great feedback about their thoughts on it. 

This quilt design was inspired by my very first quilt book called "Material Obsession" - it was the very book that sparked my love for proper quilting.  It has taught me heaps as a beginner quilter on the equipment to purchase, how to cut the fabric and many other essential quilting basics.  I must say my skills has come a long way since I began to be a 'serious' (I think this has to be used loosely as quilting is all about creativity and there is nothing serious about creativity other than letting yourself go, have fun and be creative!) quilter last year.

Now... more about this quilt.  The guidelines was - I am mad about pink! and I love bright and bold colours. So I took out all the pink stash and mixed it with some other bright and bold coloured fabrics I had in my stash. I think I have managed to it well as I am still learning about pulling fabric bundles apart and creating a new palette to make it more interesting (I am still struggling with that as the bundles are all so pretty and coordinated lol!).  The pink coordinates made a beautiful backdrop accentuated by the magenta cotton linen solid geometric shape.

I continued the bold and bright theme at the back of the quilt running a strip of magenta solid with a little patchwork detail against a bright tangerine backing fabric.

I have also hand quilted this quilt with simple lines using white and red perle no.8 cotton thread.  I love the texture of hand quilted quilt.  To me it adds another layer of excitement to the quilt and also simple detailing that is often lost with machine quilting.  Don't get me wrong, I love and have seen some really fantastic and amazing machine quilted quilts out there but I think for a domestic quilter like myself, a little bit of detail goes a long way.  Furthermore, it has a meditative feel to the process that allows me to sit and contemplate about life.

Quilt facts:

Finished size: 48" x 62"

Quilt top fabric: Assortments of Nicey Jane by Heather Bailey and Midwest by Amy Butler, Magenta cotton linen blend

Backing: Bijoux Swirly Buds in Tangerine by Heather Bailey

Binding: Magenta cotton linen blend

Batting: 100% cotton

And here is the quilt sitting on the recipient's lazy boy at her home and here is what she had to say to the customer :

"Thank you for such a pinkylicious and beautiful gift.  I love it very much and the colour combination is so cheerful and happy.  I thank God  for bringing you into my life and for being such a lovely sister to me."

Bless!

Madeleine's Quilt

A finished quilt for my god-daughter and also first out of three projects that I hope to finish by end of the year.

I am really happy with this quilt though it took a while to get it together.  The colours of this Full Moon Lagoon palette is so beautiful and bright that no amount of pictures can justify the intensity of the colours even though I might have over 'IG' it on my Instragram feed lol!

Full Moon Lagoon was my choice of fabric as my god-daughter, Madeleine loves the beach and her favourite colour for now is pink.  The little 1" corner sets were pink fabrics that I had in my stash, most were from Heather Bailey's Nicey Jane fabric line, Hope Valley by Denyse Schmidt and Midwest by Amy Butler to name a few.

The quilt top did take some time to piece together as the little corner sets took a fair bit of time to cut, piece and trim.  However, once I got into the routine, it all came together quite nicely.

Even though I am happy with the quilt top, I am still undecided on the quilt back.  When I embarked on making this quilt, I was on a strict fabric diet so I had to find what I had on hand to make the backing.  Sometimes I like it because of the scrappiness but other times I wished I could have and should have used a nicer backing fabric.  However, it is kinda nice not to have that 'perfect' fabric and just sew with what I have.  I am also on a 'use it' now fabric mode instead of hording it and keeping it for that special quilt.  Every quilt is a special quilt in my opinion.

I used a solid pistachio coloured cotton linen as binding to keep it simple as not to 'overcrowd' the overall design.  I think it frames the quilt rather nicely too.

I have also quilted it in simple straight lines - a double 1/4" lines on the horizontal and single 1/4" lines on the vertical which I thought will least distract from the gorgeous fabric

Quilt facts:

Finished size: approx 64" x 76"

Fabric: Full Moon Lagoon by Mo Bedell for Andover fabrics, Emma Louise in solid White, Fuchsia cotton linen, Nicey Jane by Heather Bailey, Hope Valley by Denyse Schmidt, Midwest by Amy Butler

Quilt backing: Bijoux Swirly Buds in Gold and Tangerine by Heather Bailey, Hoo's in the Forest, Cotton linen in Pistachio, Brown and Fuchsia

Binding: Cotton linen in Pistachio

Batting: 100% cotton

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