Friday, October 26, 2012

Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry

Woe me but I just found out about Blogger's Quilt Festival happening over at Amy's Creative Side. So want to enter my flying geese quilt as an entry, but my previous post is a week old so need to create a new post to enter. Pardon the repetition but here goes:



I started this quilt in January of this year and has taken me a while to see it to completion. It started with my love of homespun madras cotton. I love the coarse crisp feel of the fabric. I do tend to lean towards triangles and flying geese seemed like the perfect way to showcase the fabric. I went with 'stich-in-the-ditch' quilting which emphasizes the blocks beautifully. You can read more about the making of the quilt here, here, here, here & here.

Quilt Festival Stats
Finished quilt measures: 65" x 85"
Quilted by: me, Rachel Singh on my home machine
Best favorite categories: Bed quilt,Home machine quilted
Entry #87

Linking up to the quilt festival. I just took a quick peek and some amazing quilts have already been entered, looking forward to spending some time this weekend perusing other entries. Can't wait.
Amy's Creative Side

22 comments:

  1. What a great use of plaids! I never would have thought to put them in flying geese, but it looks great.

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  2. What a lovely quilt, - I agree with the comment above, the plaids look really great. I also like the way you have placed positive and negative "geese".

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  3. This has such a soft and classic look to it - just beautiful!

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  4. Beautiful! I adore flying geese and plaids so this quilt really speaks to me. Great work!

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  5. Ooh, it's beautiful! Love the colours!

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  6. a classic beauty the geese are so peaceful well done!!!
    ann

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  7. It's gorgeous!!! Love the colours and well done on the quilting too.

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  8. Its lovely. Thanks for sharing. #263

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  9. I love flying geese, and you've done a great job! I particularly love the "reverse" geese, the cream-on-green, just lovely.

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  10. It is soft and serene and very sweet! Plaids are looking really pretty in these flying geese. I adore your quilt!

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  11. beautiful quilt, love the negative space, and your color choices.

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  12. I love this pattern and your fabric choice really makes it modern feeling. Gives it a bet of a masculine edge. Great choice to stitch in the ditch.

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  13. Beautiful quilt! I love all the flying geese. Great fabrics used.

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  14. Very nice and peaceful. I especially like how some of the geese are white.

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  15. What a beautiful quilt - I love the calm colours.

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  16. I too love the beautiful calm colors - that's what really caught my eye from the thumbnail on BQF. But I love the plaids - the FG really show them off well. And I love the surprise of the "reverse color" geese - fun! That adds another layer of interest!

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  17. Love it's fresh, clean, classic, simplicity.

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  18. I love everything about your quilt ... colours , flying geese , plaids .
    The inverted geese add that bit of quirk :)

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