Showing posts with label Bloggger's Quilt Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bloggger's Quilt Festival. Show all posts

Friday, October 23, 2015

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Farmer's Wife 1920

Amy's Creative Side is once again sponsoring Blogger's Quilt Festival, an online quilt show.  I am very happy to enter my Farmer's Wife Quilt into the Large Quilt category

My regular readers are familiar with my quilt and my glamour shots.   I blogged about my entire process and made 2-3 blocks most weeks.   All 111 blocks were used - 110 on the front and 1 on the back for my label.



I paper pieced all of each of the blocks.  I set half of them on point.

One side ....


and the other.


The blocks are predominantly one color - either blue/aqua, red or gray except for the ones in the 4 corners that are a mix of red and blue/aqua with sometime some gray mixed in.



Here is the block I used for my quilt label, incorporating a piece of each of the fabrics used in the quilt!



I had so much fun making this first one that I am 12 blocks into the next one!  This time the 1930's version. 

The quilt took me a year to complete from the first block to the attaching of the binding.  (I used a red solid.)

To see a close up of all the blocks, I created a series of mosaics that can be found on this post.





Thanks for visiting but before you go, make sure you go check out my Elm Street Quilts blog to learn more about the Bag It series and enter the giveaway.  You've got the opportunity to get your handmade holiday gifts done and maybe earn something for you at the same time!




Thank's Amy for another great festival!









Happy Stitching!

Friday, May 15, 2015

Blogger's Quilt Festival - New Hampshire


New Hampshire is my entry into the Original Design Quilts category of the virtual quilt show hosted by Amy from Amy's Creative Side

I gifted this quilt to my Aunt - she is married to my mom's brother.  She lives in New Hampshire (hence my original name!) and is a wonderful person.  A few years ago my daughter and I were stranded in an airport near their home and my aunt and uncle rescued us late at night only to return us very, very early the next day to catch our rescheduled flight home.  My daughter still calls her "the aunt who saved us!!"



This quilt is my own design using a Fig Tree fabric layer cake.  It finished 60" x 70".   Cathy Kirk did the edge to edge quilt design called JS Panto 27.



I just love this quilt and need to make it again!!

Visit the  Blogger's Quilt Festival to view lots of amazing quilts across multiple categories.

Happy Stitching!

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Pebbles



Pebbles is my entry into the Mini Quilts category of the virtual quilt show hosted by Amy from Amy's Creative Side

Why Pebbles? The mix of colors reminds me of a stream full of rocks and the circular quilting the pattern is the ripples in the water after you throw a pebble in the water.

The pattern is Little Bites pattern called Sample. I made 9 of the blocks.  The quilt finished at 19" square.


I really love to do spiral quilting and this mini was quick and easy.   I've a tutorial if you are interested.

Visit the  Blogger's Quilt Festival to view lots of amazing quilts across multiple categories.


Happy Stitching!

Friday, October 24, 2014

Hello Sweetie - Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry




I am excited to enter Hello Sweetie into Blogger's Quilt Festival in the large quilt category.

Hello Sweetie was my first quilt finish using paper piecing.  The blocks came from the Dr Who paper piecing quilt along.  I decided on the final setting because I wanted the blocks to float across the quilt.

Fall 2014 BQF ButtonI have this hanging in our bonus room where I can see it from my sewing corner.  I put the Weeping Angel on the edge so she is looking towards the corner of the room where the dust bunnies live.  The fish tank right below her should be safe - fish don't have eye lids and therefore can't blink!  

I really went to town in the quilting I did on the individual blocks and had so much fun!   Here is Gallifrey:



The Dalek (my favorite villein)




and the Hello Sweetie block itself.



I so much enjoyed sharing my quilt as part of the virtual quilt show.  Any other Doctor Who fans out there?  Who is your favorite doctor?

Please enjoy the other quilts in the festival.  I've also entered a quilt into the Original Design Category.    (my blog post)


Happy Stitching!

Cupcake Picnic - Blogger's Quilt Festival


Fall 2014 BQF Button

I'm entering my quilt Cupcake Picnic into Blogger's Quilt Festival into the Original Design category.

This quilt is my own design and I used a charm pack of Kona along with straight line quilting to make this rainbow of flying geese.

I named this quilt Cupcake Picnic.



This quilt was part of a blog hop sponsored by Sew We Quilt. (link to my original post.).  I took my 3 wonderful kids - two teenage girls and my twenty year old son - on a picnic on Mother's Day.  While one could argue that the highlight of the picnic was the cupcakes or maybe even the quilt, it actually was just being together.  It was fun and still feels like a hug many months later.

I am happy to be linking this quit up in Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Here is a link to my other quilt I'm entering into the large category plus, just for fun, the link to the quilts I entered in the Spring version of the show here and here.

Happy Stitching!

Friday, May 16, 2014

New Jersey - Blogger's Quilt Festival Entry

Amy is hosting another Blogger's Quilt Festival - a fantastic on-line quilt show that takes place twice each year.

My second entry this year is New Jersey which I am entering it into the Large quilt category.







The blocks from this quilt all came from Barbara Brackman's Votes for Women quilt along.  (I was thrilled to see my quilt posted on Barbara Brackman's blog as one of the finished tops.)

The quilt was dedicated to my two grandmothers - Anita and Gladys - who lived in New Jersey.  I made my label with Spoonflower to record their names and year they were born.   I also made this quilt in honor of my two girls - the oldest of which recently turned 18 and is excited by the opportunity to vote.  


My mom found this quilt under her Christmas tree this year.   I've 6 sisters so as the mom of 7 girls, I couldn't think of a better home for New Jersey.



My blog post has list out all the names of the blocks.   A few made it onto the back of the quilt as well.




Thanks for stopping by.  Make sure you make time to look at all the quilts in the festival.

Happy Stitching!

Starburst - Blogger's Quilt Festival entry

Amy is hosting another Blogger's Quilt Festival - a fantastic on-line quilt show that takes place twice each year.

My first entry this year is Starburst.  I am entering it into the Original Design category.


This quilt is entirely my own design.  The star block is my favorite block and I wanted a new twist on the block by assembling it via squares from a single charm pack and 1/2 yard of background fabric.  I did circular quilting with my walking foot.  (Circular quilting is fun but gets a bit tedious as you go around and around and around.)




I love the picture of the back - the circular quilting shows up really well!


This was my final finish of 2013.  The photos were taken early morning light of December 31- New Year's Eve.


I just love the fun explosion of color!


Thanks for stopping by - make sure you visit all the wonderful quilts!

Happy Stitching!

Friday, October 25, 2013

Blogger's Quilt Festival - family

I'm excited to enter a quilt Amy's Creative Side Blogger's Quilt Festival! 

I am entering my quilt family in the wall hanging category.  I made this quilt last December as a Christmas gift for my mom and dad.  I just love sharing it again.  This quilt was my own design - not sure you'd find a tree shaped like this growing in the real world!  (smile)

At the roots of the tree are my grandparents.



The trunk is for my mom and dad.   (See the cute heart carved into the tree?)



There are seven kids - all girls - in my family so the tree has seven branches and then leaves for the 7 of us, our husbands and the collection of our 16 children.  



Everything was appliqued on.  The leaves have an extra layer of fusible batting to make them really pop.   I used my machine to put all the names on the leaves as well as the years each of the families branched out.

I think the tree came out really amazing just in and of itself.



But adding the word family to the bottom, makes the quilt even better.



Thanks for visiting.  Enjoy all the quilts that are available at the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  



Happy Stitching!

Friday, October 26, 2012

Pure & Simple - Bloggers Quilt Festival


If this is your first visit, welcome to A Stitch In Time.  I love making new friends in the world of quilters.

I always enjoy participating in the Blogger's Quilt Festival sponsored by Amy and getting inspired by visiting all the other blogs with entries.


My quilt this year is call Pure & Simple.  



The pattern is a modified version of Schnibble Lincoln.  (I modified the proportions of the star block to allow me to make more accurate flying geese.)



My LAQ is Cathy Kirk.   Fabric used is Sweetwater's Pure - this is one of my all time favorite fabric lines.  I love the text print.  



The quilt is queen sized and it looks fantastic on the bed.



The backing fabric - which you can see right below the water mark - is the argyle print from the line.




Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats
Finished quilt measures : Queen sized
Best Category : Bed Quilt
Happy Stitching!

Friday, May 18, 2012

Romance (Blogger's Quilt Festival)

Romance is my entry in Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival.  




I started this quilt in October and finished her (it is a she) in May.  




This is a two fabric quilt - Luna Notte by 3 sisters (SKU 4033 15) and Rouenneries by French General Deux 13527 31).  The binding I used was a solid red from the Rouenneries line.




She is 72 by 63 inches and was quilted in an all over pattern by Cathy Kirk.




Romance.  (Good name for a quilt.)




My entries from the past:








Happy Stitching!