Tuesday, September 18, 2018

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

21 comments:

  1. What a fun label for a beautiful quilt! The SIT wrote the message for all her teacher and buddy quilts. I think her friends liked the message as much as they did the quilts.

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  2. Nice to see this one again, Patty! I know her teacher is thrilled and the quit means ever more with the handwritten label!

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  3. i love that quilts can tell our stories and keep our memories close

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  4. This is such a lovely quilt and the label is just darling! :D

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  5. What a spectacular quilt and story; perfect for sharing again for the festival!

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  6. I really do love Encouragement. So bright and pretty. The grey background is always a favorite.

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  7. Hi Patty! I love this quilt the first time you shared the story about it, but I love it even more today. Those colors are just gorgeous - I love how the gray lets each of the colors shine yet it makes its own quiet statement too. I'll bet Megan's teacher just LOVED it. ~smile~ Roseanne

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  8. Nice modern quilt and quilting. Great job! Lucky Teacher!

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  9. Thanks for sharing this story ! This a great quilt!

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  10. What a special gift, I love the way you varied the quilting!

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  11. Beautiful quilt and the label is precious. The quilting is perfect and I do hope the quilt, as a gift, will be treasured (because one would be crazy not to!).

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  12. I have tears in my eyes and remember your other posts about this quilt, but I think it’s the first time I saw the label. I am a former special ed teacher and I can tell you this quilt is going to mean a lot to her teacher for years to come. It’s been years, but I still cherish the few little gifts I’ve rec'd.

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  13. It's lovely & the colours definitely make me smile. The grey gives them vibrancy. I just may join in the this too, as I've one that I finished & haven't shown with binding on. Thanks for sharing & pointing out the blogger's festival was happening. Take care.

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  14. This is such a beautiful quilt and the sentiment is perfect. That teacher will treasure her quilt forever.

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  15. Love how bright and cheery and love the story and label too.

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  16. Very special.:) Love how happy it looks!

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  17. Strong visual impact and nicely done!

    LuAnn Kessi in Western Oregon
    https://luannkessi.blogspot.com/

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  18. Beautiful quilt! I hope that she treasures it for many years!!

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  19. Pretty quilt. That grey backgrounds works so well with the colors.

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  20. This is such a fantastic quilt! I love the mix of straight line and free motion quilting.

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  21. I love it - it energetic and vibrant.

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