Saturday, October 29, 2011

Blogger's Quilt Festival

 AND Mini Quilt Sew & Tell!!




I wanted to link up to the current Blogger's Quilt Festival because I have really enjoyed following it in the past. There's always so much inspiration to be had!  (edited to add:) AND I want to link up to this wonderful mini quilt challenge hosted by Amy - go check out the wonderful eye candy!!


I haven't finished a (real) quilt in awhile. Just small projects. But a small quilt is still a quilt, isn't it?  This is a tiny quilt that I made for The Post Sewing Summit Swap that's going on right now. I know I've been mentioning the Summit alot, but, well - it's the coolest thing I've done in awhile.


I have a cute little mini quilt to share. In this teeny plus quilt, I've tried to incorporate my partner's color and fabric likes with my love of geometry.  The quilting sort of represents river rocks and little echoing waves of water. I'm not much of an improv quilter - I usually like to have a plan. This was fun though, it was nice to let go a little bit. I really like the juxtaposition of orthagonal geometry with wacky quilting, I think I'll try to explore that more. 


So I let my 4 yr old 'borrow' my camera (it's a point and shoot) a week or 2 ago. I need 10 minutes of quiet, so I said - here go take some pictures. I haven't seen it since. I've really looked for it too. Damn kids :)  OK, I've learned my lesson - 10 minutes of quiet isn't worth losing a camera.  So I'll be doing all of my picture taking with my outdated iphone 3. Yuck, sorry for the horrible quality.


17 comments:

  1. Sorry to hear about your phone! I have been known to agree to things I shouldn't for a few minutes of quiet....chips at 7:30 am- sure! You do what you have to do!

    Cute quilt!

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  2. What a great little plus quilt! Great choice of binding - really gives it a nice finish!

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  3. I love this one Jill you have a lucky partner!

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  4. Great texture~
    Margaret
    www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com

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  5. That looks great! Love the geometric piecing and the watery quilting. Hope it's coming to my house. ;)

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  6. Such a cute quilt!! :o)
    Wasn't the Sewing Summit so fun??

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  7. That's hilarious! The things we do for some quiet. :) It's so cute though- quality photo or not.

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  8. Ok, I could seriously be your twin. I give my phone to my 1 yr old. (yes!) way to often to give me 2 minutes of peace. Hang in their its probably under the sink. Love your quilt, your partner is gonna love it.

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  9. Oops on the camera...hope you find it soon. I do think your pictures are nice, though. Darling quilt and fun reason to make it. Thanks for sharing and have a great day

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  10. What a lovely quilt! I have charms cut to make one of the same pattern. :)


    Mary
    http://www.quiltgenius.com

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  11. I seriously love my mini! I promptly hung it up in my kitchen! I think I told you about that already! You should totally link up to our mini party on Friday - that's partly why I haven't blogged about it yet! I'm saving it :) Thanks again!

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  12. Hi Jill! I absolutely LOVE this mini that you did. I have visions of something like it hanging in my sewing space...giving me lots of inspiration! You have one lucky partner!

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  13. Very cute, I love your color choices!

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  14. Very sweet. I love the turquoise sashing!

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  15. I'm going to post some pictures on Monday when I announce the winners. :)

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