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Blue looks good on my quilt!
iSewQuiltArt Advanced AUSTRALIA Member since 4/4/08 Posts: 3210	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/13/12 7:05 AM Woo hoo! Thought I'd share a happy dance here, my quilt that I never intended as a show quilt when I started stitching it years go, has just won the Bed Quilts Professional Category in my State Guild's annual exhibition in Australia. Earlier in April it won the Exhibition Convenor's Award in another state. I had a great time freemotion quilting my heart out onto it around the hand needle turn applique and enjoyed the fiddly nature of the little triangles in the machine pieced border. Using would you believe, leftovers from another quilt! Baltimore Ladies Remembered Credits for block design sources are on the blog. I quilted it on my Bernina 440QE with the number 9 darning foot, feed dogs down where they belong, not stitch regulated. It is 188cm square (74 inches square) The grape leaves and bunches are totally unmarked as is the back fill design. There is a lot of outline quilting right next to the applique in and out of all the little bits so it took what felt like forever to do that step and then about a fortnight of frantic quilting to meet the earlier show's deadline. One of my other entries has been selected to travel with a group of quilts around the country, its also on my blog above further down. Little improvisational piece in response to the challenge theme "Red Plus One". Such fun to make and quilt! Enjoy- and I'd love to know what you think! -- Edited on 8/13/12 7:06 AM -- -- Edited on 8/13/12 7:06 AM -- ------ Quilting up a storm Bernina Girl
Changma   Advanced Beginner NY USA Member since 2/20/12 Posts: 411	Login to reply to this post In reply to iSewQuiltArt << Like this post Date: 8/13/12 7:36 AM CONGRATULATIONS! You must be so, so proud.
Miss Fairchild   Advanced USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 6990	Login to reply to this post In reply to iSewQuiltArt << Like this post Date: 8/13/12 8:24 AM Beautiful!!! I was watching Sunday Morning last night (previously recorded) and there was a piece on the sculptor who made the tower for the Olympics in London. He was showing pieces of his sculpture and talking about the colors of each. When he got to a blue bowl, big enough to put your head in, he encouraged the reporter to put hers in the bowl and talked about how blue is the color of the sky and gives you a restful state. The blue in your quilt does the same for me; it gives my eyes a resting place. ------ "We don't impose our rhythm on Nature. The key is to respect and live within Her." Jean-Charles Boisset, Winemaker "And no, now that you asked, I didn't enjoy that play one bit, and I'd like a refund" Signed, Mrs. Lincoln My Etsy shop: auntmaymesattic My blog: auntmaymesattic.wordpress.com Avatar: First place award for jacket at county fair
SewBusy63 Advanced IA USA Member since 12/10/07 Posts: 3191	Login to reply to this post In reply to iSewQuiltArt << Like this post Date: 8/13/12 8:24 AM Congratulations! It is beautiful! ------ ~Diana~ ♥ Bernina 830E ♥ Bernina 1150MDA serger ✝The Lord is my Light and my Salvation: whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1✝
SouthernStitch   Advanced LA USA Member since 8/24/02 Posts: 8182	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/13/12 8:33 AM Stephanie, Outstanding -- congratulations! I really enjoyed looking at all of your work. ------ Bernina 730E, 530, and 350PE Singer 221 FW, 403a When life gives you green velvet curtains, make a green velvet dress.
Laurasews   Advanced CO USA Member since 12/27/04 Posts: 72	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/13/12 8:49 AM Stephanie, You do amazing work! Blue looks like it belongs there. Congratulations! Laura
JEF   Intermediate VA USA Member since 7/27/05 Posts: 2441 Board Moderator	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/13/12 10:48 AM Wow - it's an amazing quilt with stunning quilting. Well deserved blue ribbon! JEF ------ "The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln
Learn To Sew   Intermediate WA USA Member since 4/12/05 Posts: 7992	Login to reply to this post In reply to iSewQuiltArt << Like this post Date: 8/13/12 11:26 AM Wow. Fab. I just keep staring at it in amazement. ------ Quilting is relaxing to me. I love to play with fabrics, patterns and colors. Bernina 630 machine only Pfaff 2036 Babylock Molly Bernina 1200DA serger Unique Sewing Cabinet 450L
cinca Member since 4/27/11 Posts: 301	Login to reply to this post In reply to iSewQuiltArt << Like this post Date: 8/13/12 11:33 AM I am always in awe of the ability of quilters like you. Outstanding results, and Congratulations.
Mufffet   Intermediate VT USA Member since 8/14/05 Posts: 8917	Login to reply to this post Like this post Date: 8/13/12 11:40 AM Those quilts are lovely. Your award was certainly earned. :)) SO happy for you. I too am in awe of the talented fabric artists whose work is so far beyond my quilting....well, I quilt for fun because I have to. ------ "Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." --Dalai Lama I have sewing machines

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