Quilting Prolifically: Best of British

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Friday, 26 October 2012

Best of British - Bloggers Quilt Festival

It's that time of year again, already, when Amy Ellis of Amys Creative Side organises the Blogger's Quilt Festival to celebrate with all those not going to 'market' ...

and i do try to enter if i can find the time to write the post, so this autumn is no different ... and as it has been such a global year for Britain, what better than my

Best of British Quilt

It all started off with a post on this ladies blog ...

that resulted in these ...

... arriving at my house! (I love it when that happens!)

As well as having the most amazing wrapping i had ever seen, inside was just a little bit of Summersville by Lucie Summers for Moda

ok, maybe a small mountain of fabrics!

and it sat, and I starred at it, and I may just have given it a stroke every now and then ....

until one day, (whilst the Olympics closing ceremony was on the tell) just before Festival of quilts I took rotary cutter in hand and cut!

and cut, and cut some more!

thanks to this lovely lady

and her amazing Double Fat Jack tutorial

and I sewed and sewed, and just before dusk, I had a quilt top ....

I love how these fabrics just play so nicely together

no matter what the colour combination

but once I got this far I really didn't want to just rush it through and half heartedly quilt it,

just to get it to Festival of Quilts

when I got it on the frame it just spoke, and said it needed something special on those outside borders ....

so when I got home from Festival of Quilts

I quilted that very special baby up!

and in my eagerness, i photographed it at night

and in the dusk too!

this was the first time I'd quilted out this design and I'm thrilled with how it worked on my set up ....

and now, it adorns my bed

and every time I walk in the room, or catch a glimpse of it from the landing, it makes me smile, I love this quilt, it reminds me of what great designers we have in this country, what a great show we put on for the Olympics and Para Olympics this year,

it lifts my spirits

and reminds me just how Great Britain is!

Best of British

72" x 84"

Fabrics: Summersville designed by Lucie Summers of Suffolk England for Moda

Block Pattern: Double Fat Jack designed by Lynne Goldsworthy of Derbyshire, England

Quilted my me, Lincolnshire, England

(Best: bed quilt ?)

i'm linking this to Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival Linky party, of which there were more than 200 quilts before I started writing this

why not head over and look at all the wonderful quilts on show, its a great way to discover new to you blogs and see some serious eye candy!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Trudi x

Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Best of British

Done!

Really!

How long does it have to take to sew down some binding!

this is when I pieced it

the deets are there too

The light was fading, I refrained from hanging it on the fence, last time I did that, my neighbour got a shock when the top blew right over into her garden!

and it fits the bed a treat in my humble opinion!

I'm going to be right toasty tonight!

Feels good to finish something :)

Thursday, 30 August 2012

Making progress

so on Tuesday I spent a wonderful day with Di, and this time, in addition to the chatting and laughing, wonderful food and company, and freshly baked cake ...

we even managed a couple of blocks for Bee Blessed!

I left the remaining scraps with Di for a little more fabric therapy, and will aim to get a few more done at the weekend. The hardest part of these blocks was making the decisions of which fabric where!

And further evidence of progress ...