After reading some wonderful blogs I got to the point that I decided to participate in the Blogger's Quilt Festival at Amy's blog this year. I'd like to participate with my quilt that I made not so long ago and it was clearly a very favorite. I was inspired by Sandi Colwell's Leahbelle's Garden Quilt.
My friend was expecting a baby girl and I was thumbing through the magazines and found this quilt which I really liked. I took the idea and pieced the background, then drew some flowers then fused them down. I decided to put chenille strips to outline the flower petals. It was my first time making chenille strips and I got so many questions about it that I wrote my first tutorial. It ended up on craft gossip and I got a lot of viewing on my blog. At that time I started to follow Leah Day's Free Motion Quilting Project where she demonstrated a different quilting technique every week. I started to practice free motion quilting and decided to stipple the quilt. It came out really nice and I'm proud of this one. My friend was stunned when they received it.
My interpretation came out like this:
Some close-up pictures:
And the pieced back:
I'm linking up to Amy's Creative Side. If you feel like it, please join the fun!
Til' we blog again! :)
Til' we blog again! :)
Love those petals! I'm betting a little baby would love touching them.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great quilt! Your addition of the chenille flowers is a wonderful touch (oh that turned out a bit punny - but I mean it as a compliment!)
ReplyDeleteLove the added chenille....cute quilt! And way to go on quilting it yourself.
ReplyDeleteHappy Quilt Festival.
Wow-the chenille is so unexpected. I love it!
ReplyDeleteHow interesting! Lovely work.
ReplyDeleteWow, this is beautiful. Way prettier than the pattern picture. I love the pinwheels you added. Keep creating!
ReplyDeleteLove it! I like the chenille for texture too...looks great!
ReplyDeleteThe textural flowers are great!
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Margaret Gunn
www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com
Kati, I just love the flowers! So neat. They look so soft. Love it!!
ReplyDeletegreat quilt! Love those flowers!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is really special, the flowers are fantastic
ReplyDeleteNagyon különleges ez a virág. Tetszik!
ReplyDeleteWow! What a cute idea for adding texture to your quilt! Love it and thanks for the tutorial.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I love the flowers.
ReplyDeleteLove the dimension in this quilt!
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