Numbers - Bloggers Quilt Festival

 Amy is back with this year's Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Every year Amy hosts a wonderful link-up where quilters can link-up two of their favorite quilts in a virtual quilt show.  It is so much fun to see what everyone is doing and visit new blogs.

My first entry is my quilt Playful which I posted about yesterday.

Today, I wanted to share my wall-hanging quilt called Numbers.

The quilt is a Fibonacci quilt.  The dimensions of the blocks are part of the Fibonacci series (1, 1, 2, 3, 5 ...).    For the quilting, each block is quilted differently in matching thread.  The number of quilting lines crossing the block also maps to a number in the series.

The quilt finishes at 40'' square and the fabrics are all American Made Brand solids. 

My son is a math and computer geek and this quilt was perfect for him.  It hangs on his apartment wall and I get to see it each weekend when we Skype.

If you a new visitor to my blog, welcome!  I hope you'll stick around a bit and visit.  I've some fun things going on right now.

One Monthly Goal is a monthly link-up party where you declare you sewing goal for the month. This could be to create a few blocks, add on a binding - whatever it takes to make progress on your sewing projects.  You can read more about it here - come link up in October!

The 3rd annual Elm Street Quilts Bag It event just began. There will be 3 months of fun including tutorials and designers spotlights on various bags to encourage handmade for the holidays.  

Making a bag - any bag, doesn't have to be from my tutorials - earns you entries to win some absolutely fabulous prizes from sponsors.  Don't miss this event - help me spread the word - tell your friends!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Playful - Bloggers Quilt Festival

Amy is back with this year's Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Every year Amy hosts a wonderful link-up where quilters can link-up two of their favorite quilts in a virtual quilt show.  It is so much fun to see what everyone is doing and visit new blogs.

My first entry is my quilt Playful which I finished recently.

The quilt used 75 of the 100 blocks I made as part of this years #100Days100Blocks2017 Instagram based challenge.

When I started making the blocks, I had no plan in mind for the quilt.  But my daughter saw otherwise.  She spent time this summer painting her room a pretty shade of gray.  So she claimed the quilt when there were only a few blocks sewn.  She regularly (and enthusiastically) checked on my progress in pulling the quilt together.  She hoped to get the quilt on her bed before she had to head back to college for her sophomore year.  I got it done with about a week to spare.

We took it to our local playground for the photo shoot.

Asymmetrically framed with a slate gray solid and backed with flannel.  Stitched with organic wavy lines.  The binding is slate gray except for a 18'' section (upper right) which is bound in scraps of yellow.

The solids were American Made Brand solids is several shades of gray.  The blocks themselves were from a FQ bundle of Pastel Pop by Michael Miller.  I had fun using yellow - not a color I sew with very often.  Some of the blocks have really sweet elephants in them.

The remaining 25 blocks will very likely end up as a pillow(s).

If you a new visitor to my blog, welcome!  I hope you'll stick around a bit and visit.  I've some fun things going on right now.

One Monthly Goal is a monthly link-up party where you declare you sewing goal for the month. This could be to create a few blocks, add on a binding - whatever it takes to make progress on your sewing projects.  You can read more about it here - come link up in October!

The 3rd annual Elm Street Quilts Bag It event just began. There will be 3 months of fun including tutorials and designers spotlights on various bags to encourage handmade for the holidays.  

Making a bag - any bag, doesn't have to be from my tutorials - earns you entries to win some absolutely fabulous prizes from sponsors.  Don't miss this event - help me spread the word - tell your friends!

Thanks for stopping by!

Have a wonderful day! Patty

Words Are - My Entry for Blogger's Quilt Festival

Yippee!

It's time for Blogger's Quilt Festival hosted by Amy @ Amy's Creative Side.  I enjoy this virtual quilt show and am excited to enter my Words Are quilt into the Original Design category.

My regular blog readers will recognize this quilt but hopefully won't mind seeing it again!

The quilt was made for my daughter who adores the Harry Potter series.   (You may recognize this as a quote from Dumbledore.)   She is studying to be a writer so it is just perfect.

The quilt finished at 70 x 100'' and is backed with a soft gray flannel print.  I quilted it with organic wavy lines on my domestic machine.  The letters are all paper pieced.  Once the words were all assembled I figured out the layout and really enjoyed designing and creating the geese border.  The idea of using geese (besides being my favorite block) is represent all the possibilities open to her as she moves forward to college.

She loves her quilt!  It now lives with her in her dorm.

I sent my son up into the lifeguard chair in order to get the photos of the finished quilt.  He did great as a quilt holder but didn't truly appreciate the number of shots I felt I needed to take.  Large quilt backed by flannel is heavy!

Before you dash off, please go take a look at my Elm Street Quilts Bag It event.  I'm starting 3 months of weekly tutorials on various bags to encourage handmade for the holidays.  Making a bag - any bag, doesn't have to be from my tutorials - earns you entries to win some absolutely fabulous prizes from sponsors.  Don't miss this event - help me spread the word - tell your friends!

Thanks for stopping by!


Have a wonderful day! Patty