Relook at Blogger's Quilt Festival...and...oh yea...snow

Sort of a nice fresh topping of snow we have now. I am not sure how much we got, maybe about 4 -5", but it blew around like crazy. You can sort of see the drifting in the sidewalk. It's kind of funny, it doesn't even seem that deep anymore! Now the temps are falling and it is very cold outside.

 

 

 Wish I had somewhere to put these indoors, but there just isn't room in the garage or house. I do have the cushions indoors for the winter...the cats have a new place to sleep in the basement!

 Amy is having a revisit to the Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival, which should be fun seeing as I never did get them all visited in the fall! She is looking for nominations for best quilt, most touching story, or best friend's quilt...lol She has the details on her blog if you want to nominate someone. Since I'm snowed in today, no school! I plan on visiting some. I even revisited mine, as I couldn't remember for sure what I had entered. (sad? yea...) I will check some as I take breaks from working on my patterns for the sampler quilt. Might even get a little sewing in later.

Pocket Quilt...Blogger's Quilt Festival

A few years ago, a good friend of mine was diagnosed with lung cancer. I had heard of quilts that you make with pockets that could be filled with cards, good wishes, prayers, little gifts that the cancer victim could take with them to the hospital when undergoing treatments. They could use it to cover up with as well as read the messages during their treatment.

So I contacted her family and friends to get cards and messages to fill the pockets and started making the quilt. She loves crazy quilts and batiks, so I made pockets of all types using scraps of batiks and trimmed them with decorative trims. It got pretty crazy all right! When finished and filled it was sort of heavy and cumbersome, but filled with love. She loved it!!! I hope it helped her feel the support and love of her family and friends during her long ordeal of radiation and chemo. She is a cancer survivor!

Go to the Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival and enter your quilt as well as visit some of the other participating blogs.

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Are you joining the Quilt Festival tomorrow. What to post about, that is the question. I have posted about everything I have made recently...it might take some thinking...Join in on the fun!

Oh, no! not another version...

This is the same block I used in the previous quilt, but using only 2 colors. It makes a big difference! I don't think you see the individual blocks as much, but the overall design. The colors are more muted too. The setting is a little strange, but was out of a book and I made this as a store model so had to follow the pattern. It is sort of interesting too, though.

This one is on the couch so gets used a lot. It has been washed more too. Thought it would be fun to post another version.

The black/white version is my favorite.

Quilt Festival 2009, blogger-style

I made this quilt quite a few years ago, maybe 10? not sure. I loved the black border fabric, so started collecting the blacks and grays so I could make something scrappy with it as the border. I decided on the Snails Trail block as I like the way the blocks connect and I thought that it would be really pretty with the grays on one half and the blacks on the other half. I hadn't made a block like that before, so didn't really know what to do when I noticed that the triangles weren't really meeting up like I thought they should. So in the middle of making blocks, I started squaring them up as I sewed them together. Well you probably guessed it, I ended up with 3 different size blocks. They weren't all that different in size, but the biggest didn't fit the smallest. It took some tricky piecing to get them together so that the quilt looked square. I took it to a quilter to quilt ( I didn't have my machine then) and I think it turned out great. It is one of my favorite quilts!

One thing about quilting...I have learned much more when things aren't working out like I wanted, then when everything goes smoothly!

The Blogger Quilt Festival has begun! Amy at Park City Girl is hosting an online quilt festival. This is my entry. Just visit her blog and check out one of the many participants listed there. Or better yet, join in the fun!