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Friday, September 23, 2016

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Home Machine Quilted Category

Amy at Amy's Creative Side is once again hosting Blogger's Quilt Festival.  It's a great opportunity for bloggers to share their work and to be inspired by others.



I am going to enter the Home Machine Quilted Category (for quilts that have been quilted on a domestic machine).  Ocean Sky is a pattern created by Brianna @ The Iron and Needle.  

You read about my journey here.

 All the fabrics were in my stash.  I love how well blue and green play together.

I felt this quilt needed some special quilting and not just an all-around motif.  But...I am not very good with free motion quilting on my Singer, and she does not like it very much.  However,  Sandra @ Musings of a Menopausal Melon gave me some suggestions, and I tried some new things.

 There are many times when I've wished for a fancy, electronic quilting sewing machine, but in all honesty, I love my little Singer.  She's sturdy (aka heavy), and she's never let me down.


 I think the wishbone motif is my favourite.  I need to try it again.



I encourage you to head over to Blogger's Quilt Festival to see all the wonderful quilts and to vote.


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14 comments:

  1. Little Black Cat QuiltingSeptember 23, 2016 at 10:59 PM

    I love the mixture of quilting motifs! I agree, this one needed more than an all-over quilting design to really shine. :) And you can never go wrong with blue and green!

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  2. Carrie BeeSeptember 24, 2016 at 12:00 AM

    Love it!!! I'm generally not drawn to blue fabrics, but this blue and green together with the white is such an amazing combination. Your quilting looks so good, I'm impressed as I doubt I will ever do anything that fancy on my home machine. Thanks for entering this, glad I got to see it!

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  3. Yvonne from Quilting JetgirlSeptember 24, 2016 at 12:55 AM

    Your quilting is lovely and I love mixing and matching motifs. Hopefully you will having something perfect to quilt more wishbones on soon. :)

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  4. PaigeSeptember 24, 2016 at 1:06 AM

    Love you choice of quilting motifs, they all look great together! There's something to be said about a dependable machine! It's beautiful!

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  5. Stitchin At HomeSeptember 24, 2016 at 9:43 AM

    Pretty!! Great work on the quilting.

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  6. Leanne ParsonsSeptember 24, 2016 at 10:48 AM

    You did a great job on the quilting, Anja! Wishbones are one of my favourite designs too :)

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  7. PaintedThreadSeptember 24, 2016 at 2:09 PM

    Very pretty quilt. I like the design and the choice of colors - and your quilting, too.

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  8. IoleenSeptember 24, 2016 at 5:28 PM

    Two very nice quilts. I especially like the blue and green one. Great looking quilting.

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  9. Lena PugachevaSeptember 25, 2016 at 3:01 PM

    Nice colors and the quilting suits the design perfectly, great job!

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  10. KaHollySeptember 25, 2016 at 4:15 PM

    There's that gorgeous quilt again! Glad you entered it! Good luck! XO

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  11. Sandra WalkerSeptember 26, 2016 at 10:50 AM

    Woo hoo! Love seeing this quilt in my favourite colour combo again. Thanks for the shout-out, and so so glad you did dive in on this one and step out of your comfort zone; it's terrific!

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  12. CherylSeptember 26, 2016 at 4:42 PM

    I love greens and blues together and your quilting on this is beautiful!!

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  13. AnonymousSeptember 27, 2016 at 3:45 PM

    A truly beautiful quilt. Good luck. I think it will do well.

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  14. Myra @ Busy Hands QuiltsSeptember 27, 2016 at 11:31 PM

    Voted for yours!

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