Blogger's Quilt Festival- Fall 2013

The time has come for the Blogger's Quilt Festival again. Quilt Market starts today in Houston and this is the time that Amy Ellis has set to keep us sharing, especially if we can't be there. 

BIG Thanks to AMY and all of the Sponsors!!
Favorite Baby Quilts HERE

I have selected from one of my finishes this year...

Favorite Baby Quilt!

Size: 52" square

Fusible Applique 

Designed, Pieced and Quilted by Mary Brown Crowther

Tyscanny by Hobbs Batting

 June-July 2013

I call it Be-Ribboned because of the multicolored Ribbon border

This quilt started out with these fabrics.

A colorful print Border fabric with fat quarters in colors that are in the print.

Dots are perfect for a Baby!

 I loved cutting it out with the Baby Go Cutter that I received as one of the Sponsor's gifts from the 2011 McCall's Quilt Design Star. I changed the flowers to use the GO Baby.

It went together very quick, having made this Original Pattern before for that Contest.

Started June 17 and completed July 26th (The day after this baby girl joined our family)

I tried to emulate the same quilting that the Original quilt had on it-
 Thanks to Natalia Bonner of Piece n Quilt in UTAH!

It wasn't easy but I'm happy with how it turned out in the end.

My favorite part ...

 Seeing my Cute New Grand-daughter lying on it,

(I made her Blessing Dress, too)

 almost as good as seeing the back with the quilting in the sunlight.

 I have started making it again and expanding it - maybe for another cute girl...  

The Festival goes from October 25-Nov 8 2013

Voting for your favorites in each of the categories shown HERE 

Please consider My Entry for a Nomination November 1-7 in the Favorite Baby Quilt Category!

Don't forget to go visit all the Blogs and Comment...

Be-Ribboned -FIXED and a Roadtrip

I was looking at my BLOG Tuesday evening and saw a BIG OPPS!

  One of the pinwheels in the center was turned wrong. I had to UN-Sew it and FIX it quick!  I changed the picture in the previous post so it is corrected.

This is how the Center is supposed to Look. 

 I had to look at both quilts side by side.

I am still writing the Pattern to submit to Accuquilt and possibly a Magazine. I chatted with Accuquilt online Tuesday instead of going out for my M & M Quilters day. I e-mailed pictures to them also.

I hope to finish the pattern writing soon and may be asking for TESTERS.

 Leave me a comment if you would like to Volunteer.

Wednesday, my Friend; Marilee and I went to visit a dear Friend in Lewiston, Idaho.  It was so nice to visit her and go out to Taco Time for Lunch.  She even took us to her favorite Fabric Store where this picture was taken. Our Prayers are with her this week!  

 Note: the thread on my sweater?  I must be a quilter...

I'm still entering each day to WIN the GEORGE Longarm Quilting Machine at APQS . 

The drawing will be sometime the week of July 1st.  

Nominations and Viewer's Choice Votes, please

Now is the time to Nominate our Blogger's Festival Quilts HERE.  There are multiple categories to choose from.

  My "Be-Ribboned"  Baby sized quilt is #312   Thanks!


You can view all of the 599 Quilts HERE and VOTE for your Viewer's Choice.  Amy Added a VOTE button to each Linky- just click where it says 'vote' under the Thumbnail of your Favorite!

2012 Blogger's Quilt Festival

 Amy over at Amy's Creative Side is hosting the Blogger's Quilt Festival during Quilt market again this Spring. The Button is above and on my sidebar... I've participated for many years and have been trying to make the choice of which quilt to showcase.  There are changes for this year that we get to nominate each other for winning in several categories.  To view those categories click HERE.  Plus there are Random Drawings for goodies from the companies that donate prizes to the Festival.  There are over 300 Blogs linked up as I find myself typing late on the first evening of the Festival.

Linky time goes May 18th until May 21st.

You can nominate someone ( ME!!! Hint, Hint)  May  22nd-25th.

Voting is May 26th-30th.

Winners announced on June 1st.

Sooooooo...
 which quilt am I showing????

One of my 2011 McCall's Quilt Design Star Challenge Quilts of course...

 Here are the 10 fat quarters that were sent for us to use in our design.
Make that 8 of the 10, I chose not to use the Black FQ.

Pictured with my fabric choice for sashing and borders.

I was inspired by a Tile floor in the bathroom of a Quilt shop I visited during a road trip with my Sister.

I used my EQ6 to draw the original design and make the pattern.  

I'm currently working on re-making this quilt using the GO-Baby by Accuquilt that 

I received as my final sponsor gift.  It will be "GO- FRIENDLY"

Especially since my Daughter-by love; Tina has claimed it.  

I told her when she has a baby girl, we'll see. 

 I love using the English Paper-piecing method for hand applique. The center appliques looked like Asterisks to me so I called the quilt Be-Ribboned Asterisk. I sent it to be quilted by Natalia Bonner at Piece n Quilt. I requested she use the swirls in the Off white background fabric of the pinwheels somehow and feathers on the scalloped border.  I love the swirls, feathers, pebbles and all the detail she did for me. I showed this quilt in Pocatello, Idaho last week-end and shortened the name to-

"Be-Ribboned".

Thanks for stopping by my Blog to see my entry in the 2012 Bloggers Quilt Festival.

2012 Quilt Show - Pocatello

Front and back of Raffle Quilt appraised to be worth $4,000  by the Portnuef Quilt Guild. Above...

Just a few of the Beautiful quilts at the show in no particular order. 

I see I don't have a picture of the stunning Quilt made by Sue Hawks of Pocatello.  They had many categories for voting.  We got there too late on Saturday to Vote again.

 My two quilts at the show-

The 1st one is my "Bouquet of Friendship" that Lynn and I wrote the pattern for. 

(Available for $9.00 if you are interested)

 The 2nd one is the one Tina claimed when I had it in the 2nd Challenge for the
McCall's Quilt Design Star Contest last year.
I shortened the name to "Be-Ribboned"
(this pattern is being written to be Go-Friendly, coming very soon)

The sweet lady I talked to on the phone before entering my two quilts in the Show; Shelly Powers.  

I had her sign a siggy square for my Quilting Friends Siggy Quilt.

This is all I bought at the show that I can put on the BLOG the rest is secrets for Christmas... Some Primitive Magazines that aren't found just anywhere and Jo Morton 'New' fabrics that had to come home with me for my Civil War Quilt.  The magazine on the right has a quilt pattern by LORI of Humble Quilts blog. That is why I was looking for it.  There was other notable Blogger's names in both of them. The tissue covers were in each goodie bag we got as we came to the show,  also in there was some candy and a Glove in case we wanted to see the label on the quilts for the name of each quilter.  It was fun ---especially to have Tina with me on Saturday.  She liked a lot of the quilts and we got to spend that Quality MIL/DIL time together.  Thinking "pink" next time she is pregnant...
While they took the quilt show down we went to Kiwi Loco for the FREE Frozen Yogurt for MOM's.   YUMMY stuff!