Friday, October 23, 2015

2015 Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival "When Bonnie Calls---"

Way back on the last day of June Bonnie Hunter sent out the "Call for Quilts" HERE
I have had a quilt hang in the Quiltmaker Gallery before.
 I was so happy to send a Picture to Bonnie and tell her "PICK ME, Please!!"
 I started making these in April. Thinking they would be this year's L/E.
The pattern was in the May/June issue of Quiltmaker in
 "Addicted to Scraps" column by Bonnie Hunter.
 

Above are pictures of my Scrap tote and my 1st block laid out.
I was having fun stitching up my blocks between other blocks I was stitching.
It wasn't long before I had 11 blocks made.

I even made some at the Retreat in June
Here is one that I made then. 
Much to my Horror, I came home and made a few more just like this.
Can you tell where I went WRONG???
  
 The "froggin' tool was put to good use, QUICK! 

Then I laid them out on my Floor and auditioned sashings.
Light or Blue?  
I couldn't decide so I used both
I liked how it looked with the borders done with Light on one side and the Blue on the other side.

Here is the Flimsy - finished on the 3rd of July.


I e-mailed this photo to Bonnie and got her reply.  
YES! She wanted me to send it to Golden.
  On the 4th of July, I loaded it on "Betsy" and got it all quilted on the 4th!
I used the "Feather's Around" Quilting design.

Quilt Stats:
Quilt Name: "When Bonnie Calls"
Pattern Name "Idaho Square Dance"
By Bonnie Hunter
Size: 47" x 47"
Pieced and Quilted by Mary Crowther
Started: April 2015- Finished July 4, 2015
Tuscany Batting
Signature Thread -Parchment
Quilting pattern "Feather's Around" 
Quilted on "Betsy" Viking 18x8 Mega Quilting machine


Bonnie's Craft U classes started October 12th.  You can register HERE
I skipped ahead and to my delight saw that they saved this class until the last.
My quilt is shown 2nd in the show and share part at the end.
I had to laugh when she called me "Marie".
Growing up plain Jane Mary Brown went to town, I take it as a compliment.
I asked her if I needed better penmanship on my label, :)
She said she just couldn't read it.  I need a new Pigma Pen!

Entered in "Small Quilt" category at 2015 Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival HERE
Nominations for VIEWER'S CHOICE through October 29, 2015
 Click HERE

4 comments:

  1. What fun! Congratulations on getting picked. I like the quilting, so far as I can see it.

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  2. Love your dual setting colors. That is so cool that it shows up in Bonnie's class.

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