Blogger’s Quilt Festival for Amy’s Creative Side.
Posted on | October 29, 2010 | 64 Comments
Amy, at Amy’s Creative Side, is hosting her fourth Blogger’s Quilt Festival. I have enjoyed looking at hundreds of quilts that have been entered in the past festivals and have been inspired by all those wonderful people.
This time I have the opportunity to participate too, so am jumping in feet first. Here is my entry!
I love the colour in this quilt. I was determined to use as many of my scraps as I could in it, but that hardly made a dent in them and I did end up purchasing a few more bits and pieces when I was short on some colours! It was a very easy quilt to make and I found that even small amounts of time were able to be used to construct the blocks.
My quilt is based on the Spectrum Quilt design in the book Successful Scrap Quilts by Judy Turner and Margaret Rolfe. It uses their eight rectangle block pattern. Each rectangle is cut the same size, but the arrangement of the blocks and the use of colour creates the different patterns shown in the book.
When all the blocks had gone together I used black for an inside border and then used more scraps to make the outside piano key border. The binding is also black.
Because of the size of the quilt, I decided to have it professionally quilted. Victor at vicQuilt did wonderful work with the choice of design and thread. I just love the red quilting! It gives the whole quilt a sense of movement and ties the blocks together in the design.
Not the greatest photo of the back but it still gives a good idea of the quilting design.
What surprised me most when making this quilt was how easily a wide rage of colours and shades could go together. I really did enjoy making it.
Thank you, Amy, for again hosting the festival and giving everyone the opportunity to share.
Make some time to hop over to the Quilt Festival and look and all the wonderful quilts on display.
Category: Quilts
love your quilt…the colors are just fantastic. i made similar blocks recently but my fabrics included a lot of white. love them, but this is wonderful with the depth of color. thanks for sharing and have a great day
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this quilt is STUNNING! i love how the colors seem to glow from within and all around the quilt. the quilting pattern is stunning too. WELL DONE!
What an amazing scrappy quilt! Love the pattern!
Such a fabulous bright quilt. I love the colours you have used, it truly is spectacular.
Lovely quilt. Thanks for telling about the book and pattern. I’m going to have to check it out. I like the idea of one shape for every piece, and I love scrappy quilts.
Gorgeous scrappy goodness! It is beautiful.
Seriously amazing!
Beautiful quilt! I love the colors.
I love your fantastic choice of colors! Wow! It puts a smile on my face seeing this – reminds me of a lot of windows.
Thank you for stopping by my blog and leaving an encouraging note about my Olivia quilt. I very much appreciated it.
WOW – the colors are spectacular!
WOW!!! What a gorgeous quilt. I just love all the colors!
I just love all the wonderful colors in your quilt! Thank you for sharing it in the show.
SheilaC
Those bright colors are gorgeous!
Oh, I just love it! The colors are so vivid and vibrant and I love the scrappy element. The quilting is really nice too and does tie the whole quilt together. Beautiful job and nicely done!
xo -El
Stunning!! Fantastic use of colours!
Beautiful use of colors- I love it!
Beautiful! This is my kind of quilt!
I LOVE the colors in this quilt! Just beautiful! :)
Very good use of color. I love the scrappiness. I am trying to do my scrappy. Hard to get outside my box! Thanks for sharing your quilt.
This is such a pretty scrap quilt! Love the colors.
very pretty! I love the rich colors you used!
this is gorgeous…the colors are amazing
Wow, this quilt is really stunning! I love the pattern, which really shows off these amazing colors. And the quilting is just perfect.
Lovely quilt (I like that book too.)
Your quilt is so colorful and what a fun design. Also like your quilting designs
This is fabulous!!! It has so much movement not just from the quilting but from all those wonderful colours!! So true about how you can make a whole quilt and it dosen’t put a dent into your stash, a good excuse to make more!! A gorgeous quilt!!!
Wow, that about knocks your eyes out!
I love scrap quilts but I can see my scraps could use a bit of perking up.
Thanks for sharing.
“Successful Scrap Quilts” is one of my favorites, I have made many quilts from it. I love the brights you used in this one, aren’t scrap quilts fun?
This is a very spectacular quilt. I love how beautifully the fabrics work together because of how you paid attention to the values. The curved quilting was perfect for all those straight seams.
really, really, love how all the colors play off of each other!
Love the colors, love the pattern, love the quilting…I am bookmarking your site as a favorite for inspiration.
Lovely! I love all the different fabrics – fun looking at the photo and seeing which ones are in my stash too!
Great quilt, thanks for sharing!
Lovely, warm and bright quilt. So nice to snuggle up in!
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I absolutely love your quilt. Tha colors are amazing! I also like the quilting pattern you chose.
Brenda
This is a gorgeous quilt! I love all your colors. Thanks for sharing! I have that book…need to pull it out and take another look ;-)
Love the colors. It’s a beautiful quilt!
Wow! I love the brightness of all the primary colors! So pretty!
Beautiful scrappy quilt! It has so much colorful energy! It must be that nice red!
WOW! Fabulous colorful quilt!
What a spectacular quilt – I would never dare to put so much colour together and yet the final effect is stunning. And I love your piano border. I love the 8 rectangle idea too – I’ve never seen that one before.
wow Wow WOW! Love all of the millions of colours in it! So great!
Love scrappy quilts and this one is so colorful and cheery. And your photographs are great. In addition to the overall design, I am always curious about the quilting itself. Thank you for sharing!
Shhh . . . don’t tell anyone, but I think this may be my favoritest quilt I’ve looked at in the festival so far! I love a good scrap quilt, and this one is fabulous! The colors are sooo RICH!
What a gorgeous quilt.
Beautiful! I love the piano keys border.
This is gorgeous – a beautifully choreographed explosion of color – I love it!
Love your blogger festival quilt….thinking about doing that too…..thanks for your compliments and taking the time to look at my blog….Pam
That is a fantastic scrap busting quilt. Fantastic colour!
love the colours and the way you have quilted it
I love how the warm and cool colors play in this quilt.
Wow – this is a beautiful, beautiful quilt! A fantastic example of how different fabrics can be used to achieve a beautiful and unified design. Thank you for sharing!
Oh wow. Brightness personified.
I think I need to go checkout the book. It sounds interesting.
This is a gorgeous scrap quilt. love it!
Very pretty! I love the COLORS!!
Wow – nice use of color. Its amazing how a simple block can look so stunning when you use color and value right!! Great job!!
I love the colors of this quilt and how vibrant it is. And the professional quilting adds the curves which help add depth to the whole design. Definitely a quilt that you can be proud of and treasure for years.
I love the gorgeous colors. Yay for scrap quilts. Isn’t it strange that you can make a quilt and still not feel like you’ve made a dent? I’ve done that too. Great work.
I really love this quilt. It is so pretty. It is one of my favorites of the festival!
This quilt is gorgeous! I love the use of color – it looks almost like a color theory quilt. Beautiful!
very eye catching!
Love it! So bright and happy quilt. A great quilt for the festival – Enjoy Nat
That is eye-popping! I like it! Thanks for sharing!
This quilt is spectacular. Charmaine