Blogger's Quilt Festival

I've been sitting back and enjoying looking and reading about all the quilts in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. I finally decided to include a quilt as well. Here is my very first quilt made in the fall of 2004. Thank you Amy for organizing such an amazing way of supporting each other and exposing ourselves to different ways of quilting and the many stories of why we quilt.

 A bargello, picked because it looks more complicated than it actually is. It was suppose to be a gift for a friend but I liked it too much and kept it. I can't remember where I got the pattern from (a library book but not sure which one). The pattern was for a wall hanging but I repeated half of the pattern and doubled the length, so it could be used on a bed. It measures roughly 58 x 76 inches.

 I still have some of these fabrics in my stash. I can remember taking my then 2 year old daughter shopping for these fabrics. She sat in the cart with her container of cheerios while I walked up and down picking fabrics and deciding what colours I wanted.

 Border is pretty tame. I used extra fabric from the top and some of what I had in my little stash to cut squares. Blues around the top and greens around the bottom were suppose to increase the mountain feeling I got from the quilt. I always thought it looked like a mountain range, with the purple fabric where the earth touched the sky.

 I still love the tree fabric that is at the bottom. I cherish every little scrap I have of it. Piano key border was added when I thought it needed to be a little bit longer.

 The "sky".

 As for quilting... straight lines that weren't very straight. I used fusible batting for this quilt and haven't used it since. I should try again though since I assume any issues I had were as a beginner quilter.

In celebration of posting this quilt I got the quilt off the quilt rack and put it on the back of the couch so it can be used as the temperature drops. I can't wait to snuggle under it. Luckily its big enough for more than one.

Go take a look at all the other amazing quilts in the festival. They are worth the hours you will spend sitting on your butt. Thanks again Amy for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.