Bloggers Quilt Festival - Encouragement

It's time for this year's Bloggers Quilt Festival - an opportunity to share our favorite finishes from the last year.  (See more information here - Bloggers Quilt Festival.)

My quilt is called Encouragement and made for my daughter's teacher, Ms R.  Ms R encouraged my daughter, laughed with her, advocated for her and was there for her.  A special teacher needs a special quilt.

My daughter finished high school in June and was fortunate enough to have the same teacher (Special Education) for five years.

This quilt is my own design, using the wonderful Sunprint 2018 fabrics from Alison Glass.

The best part might just be the special label my daughter created.

I also used a AG print on the back and added a strip of color.

The quilting was a lot of fun.  I started with diagonal straight lines, mimicking the direction of the pattern.  The initial lines were marked with a hera marker and then I winged it.   In five places, I replaced the straight lines with some FMQ.

Much of the piecing for these blocks was done on a guild retreat and the colors made me smile every time I sewed with them.

I've shared this quilt a few times on my blog because I love it.

There is a story behind this fabric too.  I went into my local quilt store that sells fabric by the inch and bought 6'' each of the 24 fabrics from the line.  (This is equivalent to 4 yards of fabric.)  When I purchased the fabric, I didn't actually have a final quilt design but thought 6'' would give me a couple of options.   Once this one was done, loving the combination of the gray with these colors, I started a second quilt with the scraps, a quilt that I'm busy hand quilting.

The quilting finished (roughly) 70 x 70''.

See all the quilts and enter your own at Amy's Creative Side Bloggers Quilt Festival!

Have a wonderful day! Patty