It’s that time of the year again when Amy (bless her heart) organises the Autumn Bloggers Quilt Festival. Click on the button above for a link back to her blogspot to see what’s happening, or use the one in my sidebar.
Last year I tried to enter a quilt but couldn’t get Mr Linky to work for me, so I hope this year I have more success.
The quilt I am entering is ‘Fantail Fantasy’, this quilt reminds me of a dear friend, Jan. She and I often challenged each other not only in to making various quilts, but, most importantly, finishing them!
Fantail Fantasy is a combination of applique and pieced work. I knew that I wanted more muted colours in my pieced work and was having trouble finding enough pieces of fabric that co-ordinated well. In the end I used a couple of Charm packs – fantastic, they worked a treat. The remainder of my fabric choices came from my stash – really! Although I chose those ‘country’ colours for the pieced work I chose a fine stripe for the applique background, as it was quilted so heavily the stripes have all but disappeared. To help 'bring out' the blue in the pieced blocks, I added a 1/4" blue pleat as the first border.
This quilt is a basic cot quilt size and was designed as a wall hanging. All applique is by hand and the piecing and quilting is by machine, like other SAL I found the joining in with a friend made the making of this quilt a celebration rather than a challenge.
Thank you for visiting.
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It's just lovely Miche'le, you can be very proud of your quilt.
ReplyDeleteWow, that is gorgeous. The colours in it are lovely. Did you design it yourself or use a pattern?
ReplyDeletenice quilt Miche'le........
ReplyDeleteI enjoy the combination of pieced blocks with an applique design. This is such a pretty quilt.
ReplyDeleteAs a side note, thought I'd let you know your link in the BQF has an error (the http is in there twice), so you might be missing on some visitors as they will be getting an error message. You should probably contact Amy and see if she can fix it for you. It would be a shame if other visitors missed out on this lovely quilt.
This quilt is stunning!!! All the details you put into it are just amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteOoooh! Your quilt is exquisite!
ReplyDeleteThis is truly gorgeous! It reminds of Art Nouveau!
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely beautiful:)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful quilt. I agree with Miri above, it reminds me of Art Nouveau too, - and also of Egyptian lilies. You have every reason to be proud of this :-)
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is gorgeous. Love the contrast between the blocks and the flowers.
ReplyDeleteIt's a lovely quilt. I love the different flowers.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love the colours, the bugs, the flowers, just everything about it.
ReplyDeleteI'll probably borrow the shape of the flowers some day in one of my quilts. It so delicate :-)
Heidi
P.s.thank you so much for your nice comment on my blog
It's beautiful Thank you for sharing.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is lovely, I really love the applique combined with piecing. Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is lovely. Love the colours and your work with the applique.
ReplyDeleteAlways good to hear about friendships in quilting.
I love the bugs!! How fun.
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