It is Blogger's Quilt Festival time again! My regular followers have seen this quilt before, earlier this year, but for those of you who are visiting for the first time, hello and thank you for visiting! I chose to feature this quilt for the festival because it is my favorite quilt I have made this year and one of the first quilts that I actually started and finished in a timely manner. Normally it takes me a year to finish a quilt, but this one was done within a month, a new record for me! I won't bog you down with all the details because I have blogged about this quilt before and you can read the extended story of this quilt HERE.
This quilt was my entry into the Patchwork Prism Quilt Along hosted by Sweet Diesel Designs, though I didn't place in that contest, I was very honored to be a finalist In the Summer Sewing Contest over at Ellison Lane Quilts, though I didn't win that contest either. Aww... do you feel bad for me yet. Ha, I'm sure you don't and shouldn't because this quilt is a winner! A few weeks ago I entered this quilt into the Cottonport, LA Festival of Quilts and placed first! I was beyond thrilled to see that blue ribbon on my quilt, even though it was displayed sideways (I'll get over it.) It was so nice to receive a ribbon for my work and even more honored to be displayed and judged against so many beautiful quilts. There were 98 entries into the Festival of Quilts and I'll share some of those other beautiful quilts in a future post.
The photo above illustrates both the machine quilting that was done around each "prism of solid color" and the hand quilting that was done inside of each prism. I really love the combination of both machine and hand quilting, it gives the quilt the best of both worlds, in my opinion!
Quilt Specifications:
Pattern - Patchwork Prism by Anna Maria Horner for Janome
Size - Wall Hanging 24.5" x 27.5"
Fabrics - No duplicates with the exception of the solid "prisms" and mostly from a 5" charm swap of designer cottons that I participated in earlier this year.
Batting - Cotton/Poly 80/20 Blend
Backing - Cotton floral print by Alexander Henry
Quilting - Machine quilted with tan thread. Hand quilted with pearl cotton in the "prisms", all quilting was done by yours truly.
Binding - Lisette sateen print from JoAnn Fabrics
Special Techniques - A combination of machine and hand quilting. I also added four small ribbon loops to the top of the back (sewn in with the binding) in order to hang it on the wall.
Category - ROYGBIV (Color Wheel) Quilt, Wall Hanging
Pattern - Patchwork Prism by Anna Maria Horner for Janome
Size - Wall Hanging 24.5" x 27.5"
Fabrics - No duplicates with the exception of the solid "prisms" and mostly from a 5" charm swap of designer cottons that I participated in earlier this year.
Batting - Cotton/Poly 80/20 Blend
Backing - Cotton floral print by Alexander Henry
Quilting - Machine quilted with tan thread. Hand quilted with pearl cotton in the "prisms", all quilting was done by yours truly.
Binding - Lisette sateen print from JoAnn Fabrics
Special Techniques - A combination of machine and hand quilting. I also added four small ribbon loops to the top of the back (sewn in with the binding) in order to hang it on the wall.
Category - ROYGBIV (Color Wheel) Quilt, Wall Hanging
Be sure to head over to Amy's Creative Side and visit all of the other fabulous entries into the Blogger's Quilt Festival.
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