Blogger's Quilt Festival - Spring 2013

It's springtime and that can only mean one thing.  It's time for the Blogger's Spring Quilt Festival.
It is organised by Amy from Amy's Creative Side and  I must pause here to thank Amy for all her hard work in organising the festival.


This year we are allowed to enter two quilts.
This is my first entry - my snow dyed butterfly quilt.

 I snow dyed all but the peachy fabric for this quilt myself.  It measures 42" x 47" and is my own design.

I free motion quilted this on my domestic - I have a Janome 1600.  This is the center section.

I machine appliqued the butterflies then worked a bit of trapunto to make them stand out. I quilted freehand feathers and pebbles behind them.

I then added two more layers to the butterflies....

and added a fuzzy center for the bodies.  I crocheted them with some funky fur yarn and sewed them down very securely.

I am entering this quilt into the Favourite Baby Quilt catergory,

Thanks for stopping by my blog and I'd be thrilled if you voted for my quilt.

Rhianon.

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Blogger's Quilt Festival Spring 2013

It's time for the Blogger's Spring Festival, which is very kindly put together twice a year by Amy from Amy's Creative Side.

Two entries are allowed this time and this is my second entry.
My fishy wall hanging.

It is my own design and measures 47" x 43"

I made a pile of string blocks using batiks and broke them up with some fishy and seahorse blocks.

The seahorses were appliqued and then I added transfer foils with bondaweb to give them a shimmery effect.

The fish and the seahorses were trapunto -ed to make then stand out and I pebbled the background.

I free motion quilted it on my domestic machine.

Quilted feathers in the border - I used some metallic threads to give it a bit of sparkle.

This quilt will be entered into the Favourite Wall Hanging  category.

I have it hanging in my living room and adds a nice splash of colour to the room.

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog and if you voted for me then thank you - that's fantastic.

Rhianon.

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ipod pouch

Hello
I made this pouch for an ipod last week.

It's very small - 5" x 3" and it was pretty tricky sewing round the top edge.

                                 Free motion quilted flowers and feathers in metallic threads.

                                                                        The back.

                                          Finished off with a sparkly sequin and bead!

Stars and Butterflies Quilt - Part 2

Hi there,
Hope you are all having a good week.
 I've been making good progress with this quilt and thought it was time to post about it again.

Last time I posted it looked like this.  I was in the process of doing the appliqued flowers and leaves.

I used bondaweb for the applique and satin stitched  around the edges.

When that was done, I made lots of half square triangle units and used them for the next border.  A plain border finished the top.

This is laid out on my deck, basted and ready to quilt.

Even cracked open a new pair of gloves.....

Free hand feathers around the central butterfly with tiny stippling in the background.

Oops where's my seam ripper???

feather filler

In the machine...

Center section almost done.  I still have to go back and do a little more work on the stars.

This is it on my bed.  It's a big quilt!

Next time I post, it will be finished.  Not sure when.  It has taken 14 hours of quilting so far.  I'm keeping a tally just out of interest.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Rhianon.