Saturday, October 27, 2012

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Amy's inspiring Blogger's Quilt Festival is happening again!

Amy's Creative Side

Great timing for me because my fabulously creative niece Evie, who is 12 years old, and her friend Maya took some really nice photos of my Tangerine and Lime Wonky Cross Quilt.  We were all at the local Art Show last weekend where Maya's mum Tina and I both had booths in the Maker's Market.


They took off with my quilt and got busy.  These two photos are on the stairs leading to the stage.  They show off the wonky cross blocks and the bright colours of the quilt in such a great way.  When I started this quilt it was orange, grey and had a little bit of black in it - the Denyse Schmidt Greenfield Hill fabrics.  These colours looked fine but I thought it was lacking something.  My quilty friends recommended adding either aqua or lime.  I loved both of these suggestions but ultimately decided on lime - probably because I knew I had some nice lime fabrics in my stash!


This picture is my quilt hanging over the handrail of the stairs.  As well as some solids, there's some more Denyse Schmidt (some of her Spotlight/Joanne's patterns), some Aneela Hoey Sherbet Pips puppies, Patty Young's gorgeous bees from her line Flora and Fauna, and crabs from Going Coastal by Emily Herricks, as well as various fabrics from my stash.  I also made a pieced backing using some of the solids, an orange Denyse Schmidt print and the Going Coastal fabric.


This is a close up of a few of the blocks taken by me back home, showing the simple stipple quilting I sewed all over the quilt.


I love wonky cross quilts so much!  This is my third, and I think there's at least one more in my future.


I had to include one of Wombat on the quilt.  He's so cuddly and loves to bask on any quilt he can find.


Details of the quilt are:

Size is 60" x 60"
Quilted by me on my Husqvarna
Best categories are Favourite Quilt Photographer (for Evie and Maya's lovely photos) and Favourite Throw Quilt.

16 comments:

  1. This is such a cool quilt. I love the colors and the design and the fun it created!

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  2. Very cool colors! I've never done wonky crosses, but always wanted to. Have to get on that, they look so great!

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  3. All of my favourite colours in a gorgeous quilt! Looks wonderful!

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  4. I love the colours, fabrics and the design...now that I am working on a quilt with a white background I have one toe in the water...this quilt pattern might be going on my wish list for 2013!

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  5. This is so fresh and fun! Beautiful cat, too...

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  6. the colours work so well with the pattern. it's a great looking quilt

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  7. Fabulous colour combo and I love modern crosses!

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  8. Hey Lisa meet Shay - a fellow SA blogger n quilter, she is right next to you in the BQF line up..check her out! PS I entered, thanks for the motivation!

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  9. That is really beautiful, well done!

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  10. I did wonder what they were up to when they took off with this quilt;) this one was my fave...but all your stuff is gorgeous!! Thanks for the mention too!!

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  11. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful and fun quilt!

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  12. A fun quilt! And I love the colors you used. I think the lime really adds some zing to the orange and grey. Love the crosses...I need to try one of these, they look like fun! The girls took really great photos.

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  13. Love the colors. The wonky cross quilt is on my ever growing list of quilts I want to make.

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  14. This is so bright and fun! The colors work so well with the wonky crosses!

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  15. I'm making a cross quilt at the moment. Love your colours!

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