Blogger's Quilt Festival~

It is Blogger's Quilt Festival time! Check out Amy's post, and then visit blogs to be inspired!  There are so many great quilts and wonderful stories.

I had a very hard time deciding which of my quilts to show you~ I love all of them! :-)  Usually I say that the one I just finished is my favorite, but today I'm going to share an older favorite.

Today I was refolding some of the quilts in my cupboard and this one caught my eye.  It is my DD's quilt and has a fun history. When she was in 3rd grade, my Dad found an old clunker sewing machine for her to sew with. She was at the age where she wanted to sew with me. Our neighbor had a yard sale and had one of those pre-cut poly/cotton little kits of pink gingham 9-patch blocks.  DD talked her into accepting her allowance for the kit. (that's my girl! LOL) :-) and came skipping home with 'her quilt kit'. That summer she learned to piece and I let her use the iron to press her blocks. She maybe finished 6.  The next summer, she pulled it out and made a few more. She did this off again/on again for a few years.  When she was a freshman in HS she was horrified at her initial blocks. :-) (in the space of that time, we had moved twice, and she now had a different sewing machine as her clunker was broken in one of the moves). She set to work ripping out the most offensive blocks and sewing until she had 24 blocks that she liked.  She used my little stash of gingham fabrics to make her sashings. I had a new embroidery machine, so before she would leave for school in the morning, she would choose thread colors and mark where she wanted a butterfly embroidered. She would fly into the house after school to check out her top. :-)  She added all the borders and we sent it off to a longarm quilter who quilted a butterfly design.  All she needed to do was the binding when we picked it up. We were visiting my parents, and my Mom would sew down a length of binding when she was outside with her cousins, and at night she would work on it herself~ she marveled at how fast she was getting her binding on! She never realized Grandma helped her so much. LOL She used this quilt on her bed for a few years, and now she is 'saving' it. It is loaded with fun memories. :-)  I'm #285 at the Festival!

Thanks for stopping by and visiting!
Enjoy the festival!

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2010

Oh yeah! Its that time of year and Amy (button in my sidebar) has really worked hard for this fun festival! Check out all the gorgeous quilts~ be prepared to be blown away! :-)

I could not decide which quilt to show and finally decided on this one. Unfortunately, blogger wants to tip the finished photo's, so this one is right before I quilted it. I'll show you quilted too, but you'll have to tip your head. LOL

The pattern is from Judy Laquidara. She did a Quilt Along and her pattern was called 'Bears in the Farmhouse'. I renamed my quilt Bears in the Forest because I quilted it with all over pine trees. It is my youngest DS's quilt. Its special because he helped choose the fabrics. I think he did an awesome job!

I hope you enjoy the rest of the festival!

Bloggers Spring Quilt Festival~

Today is the day! :-)

Lots of wonderful quilts and quilt stories all over blogland! Go to Amy's Creative Side to join in the fun! And then look at all the links to wonderful quilts! A girl could sit and dream at her computer allll weekend!! ;-)

I was digging around nicely looking through ;-) my quilt cupboard this morning and decided to show y'all this one~ it is a quilt of many firsts! :-)About six years ago I hosted a block swap for red/white Monkey Wrench blocks. Any red print and any white-on-white could be used for the blocks. I had no idea what I would do with my blocks, but my love affair with red/white quilts began then! I love red and white together! :-)

This is the first quilt that I put all my playing around with my Electric Quilt program to use. I don't remember if it was EQ 5 or EQ6, but I do remember that shortly after I had the parts for the top sewn together, our computer crashed, so I don't have a pattern anymore.

At the time, my design wall was our bed, so I made lots of trips from the bed to my sewing machine and back to bed again. LOL Maybe that is why I got the top together so much faster than I do now! ;-)

I quilted it myself during one of the first times I rented a longarm. I used a panto of butterflies and loops.
I used an allover red/white print for the back. At the time I had enough left for pillow cases, but I inadvertently used it for something else. :-/ Now I mark fabric's that I'm using in a project. ;-)

This quilt just makes me smile~ all those firsts wrapped up in blocks made by my friends. :-) I hope you enjoyed my little story too.

Thank you Amy for the fun festival! Now hop on over and start looking at great quilts!

Until next time~
Happy stitchin'!

Bloggers Quilt Festival

Have you heard about the spring festival?
Click the button on my sidebar!

Whoohoo! :-) It will be a fun time!! :-)

Odds 'N Ends~

Amy over at Park City Girl is having a little re-look at all the 683 quilts from her Blogger's Quilt Festival last fall. You might recall my entry~ It's #462. :-) here's the link to it all quilted up. If you are snowed in ;-) with a little time on your hands, go back and check out more of the quilts. Loads of inspiration!! :-))

And yesterday I finished my 2009 HGTV BOM blocks~ I have an idea for the layout I want to use, but need to let it 'stew' for a bit. Well, that and I need to find a huge chunk of time! LOL

Until next time~
Hope you are happily stitchin'!! :-)

Bloggers Quilt Festival

Have you heard about the Quilt Festival? Amy at Park City Girl has set it up~ and she has loads of links to quilting bloggers~ and lots of wonderful quilts to see! Grab your mug/cup/can and head over for the show! :-)

As for me~ I had such a time deciding what to enter! I chose 'Autumn Waves'. It is a recent finish and a favorite because my girlfriend who lives about 1800 miles away and I made this quilt together despite being so far apart. We chose the theme of ' autumn' and each of us made 44 pairs of blocks using our stashes and maybe a few additions. ;-) Then we swapped our duplicate blocks. I really enjoyed putting this quilt together because my blog readers chimed in when I showed different layouts, and different fabrics for the borders, so it was like quilters all over the world helped me to make my quilt! I met so many of y'all through the making of this quilt! It was fun! :-)) ...and I ended up with a great quilt full of memories. :-) Thanks everyone! :-)

Until next time~
Happy Stitchin'!