Blogger's Quilt Festival - #2

Thanks Amy for giving us this platform....just had to show you one more, I love this quilt!!

I started with a 5" stamp set from Island Batik's Lake Life, added a bit of yardage from the same line, cut into 5" squares as well to fill out the outer edge.

Just wanted to show you that you can do a spiral on a long-arm! CRAZY!! But I did it! To read more about this quilt, you can check out the original post.

Enjoy more of Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival link up party.

Blogger's Quilt Festival

You might have just been here for my Back to School with Island Batik blog hop post about this quilt, but just had to share it during the Blogger's Quilt Festival too. This new design, "Sea Bubbles" is available as a pattern on Craftsy. This features the new "Seas the Day" collection now available online and in shops.

Here is a  baby size that is adapted from my "Zoe" design using fabrics from the same collection.

Thanks for stopping by! Hope you're enjoying all the inspiration during Amy's Blogger's Quilt Festival. Thanks Amy!!

Fall 2015 - Blogger's Quilt Festival - Jewels - Fire Island

Category: Original Design

Here is my 2nd entry in the Amy's Creative Side - Blogger's Quilt Festival. This is a new design being released at Fall Market in the Island Batik booth, featuring their Fire Island fabric line due out this winter.

Patterns will be available after Nov. 1.

My quilt design is Jewels....and this version is Fire Island Jewels.





I loved working with the vibrant colors against the white and black. I kept imagining a hot lava flow in the Hawaiian islands.

 Imagining the various shades of blue water.

Now to quilt it..... The border is a large flame like shape and this is repeated in various sizes around the jewels in the center of the quilt. If you just used blue and red jewels--it could easily be a Quilt of Valor!

Backside

So, this version of Jewels, Fire Island Jewels.

 Here are other versions made by my 'testers':


made by Julie Tapley, Quilted by Holly Anderson
a Patriotic theme

made by Nancy Cargo; Quilted by me
using Jinny Beyer batiks and border print

My original "Royal Peacock Jewels" was a special commission for a wedding gift. I used a mishmash of specially selected colors for the center blocks and a Jinny Beyer border print. I always wanted to make this into a pattern ...and the time has finally come!

 

Thank you for stopping by and considering this as your vote for Original Design.

btw...do you see white stars? My client saw them but I didn't until she pointed them out
....and yes, I designed it that way. ha!

Fall 2015 - Blogger's Quilt Festival - ROYGBV - Dangling Diamonds

I'm excited to be sharing this quilt with you as part of Amy's Creative Side - Blogger's Quilt Festival.

I have always wanted to create a ROYGBV quilt and it finally came together this year. This is also hanging at Fall Market in the Island Batik booth using their new fabrics from the Sea Salt Sandy Collection.
















My quilt design is called "Dangling Diamonds" and uses Bella Nonna Design Studio's Boondoggle Rulers.

The pattern, with several bonus Quilted in Honor themed patterns, will be available Nov. 1 after its release at Int'l Quilt Market or can be ordered hard copy from me directly or ask your local quilt shop to carry them.

Here are a few details of how I quilted it. With all the angles in the piecing, I wanted to create some twirling effects. I created a card stock template of this shape and traced it into each large background diamond as I went. It is with a purple disappearing ink pen, so it doesn't stay there long.

 

 

For the colored diamonds I used matching metallic thread. The center diamond was marked with disappearing ink to give me a registration point for the center, the rest used some straight rulers but a lot of freehand and eyeballing to keep it fairly consistent. Ultimately the key here--loosen the top tension to almost nothing!

 

 

In the small diamonds, I used this curved ruler to create a consistent arc, then freehanded the rest.

 

 

I used two layers of 80/20 bleached batting. I love the relief where it is NOT quilted.

 

Backside!

Dangling Diamonds by Marlene Oddie of Kissed Quilts
using Bella Nonna Design Studio Boondoggle Rulers(tm)
56" x 71"

 

Thanks for stopping by and considering this quilt for your ROYGBIV vote!

 

Woven Braid - Original Design Entry in Amy's CS Spring Blogger's Quilt Festival

Excited to share complete photos of this original design - Woven Braid as part of Amy's Creative Side and the 2015 Spring Blogger's Quilt Festival.

 

It was recently hanging at Spring Market in the Island Batik booth. Local shops can order these fabrics and the pattern through Island Batik. If you're interested in the pattern, you can purchase it from me directly--just let me know in the comments so I can reply to you with details.

 

This is using the new "Meadow" collection from Island Batik--I've heard that the fabrics will ship in August to local shops that have ordered it. In July I'll be participating in a blog hop and will be giving away some fabrics from the Spring collections. So, I hope you'll follow my blog so you won't miss it! I do intend to have this as a complete kit in August, you can get on the pre-order list if you let me know in the comments.

 

I had a lot of fun creating and quilting this one ...learned several things as I tend to do on every quilt that I work on. These fabrics were absolutely wonderful to work with!

First and last two photos, courtesy of Island Batik.

Consider voting for it in the Original Design Category at Amy's Creative Side Spring 2015 Blogger's Quilt Festival.  Thanks!

Viewer's Choice Vote here.

Thanks for stopping by! Happying Sewing!

Blogger's Quilt Festival 2014 - Large Quilt Category

I'm feeling blessed to actually be in Houston right now! Just finished International Quilt Market and am now attending Quilt Festival.

I had big surprises this week, including a red and white quilt that is in the Ruby Jubilee Exhibit for Festival was also used as the cover for AQS Spring 2015 Catalogue. Did you get yours in the mail?  I quilted it! WOW!!!!! What a surprise and true honor.


ok...down to business. You're here because you're hopping through this online festival and I don't want to disappoint.

















I'm sharing 'Our Honeymoon Quilt'. Yes...it all started while on our honeymoon in 2009 in Hawaii. No, I wasn't bored, really....and my husband was very supportive to let me stop in at quilt shops along our journey, but sometimes sitting on a cruise ship you need something creative to do ;-) ....so I saw this Storm at Sea design with 3 hearts and thought that was fun, but surely I could make it a bit more interesting.





Turtles are a motif used in many Hawaiian fabrics, so by incorporating a turtle into the Storm at Sea design (upper right hand corner) strictly by coloring the pieces accordingly then adding Hawaiian prints into the border that included turtles it started coming together. To be honest, the piecing of this didn't start until 2012 and a recent quilt show in Spokane "My Heart Belongs to Quilting" as the theme, motivated me to get it out and finish it up. The borders became a huge part of the design when my husband asked if it would be at least 7' tall so that it could tuck under his feet while sitting in our double recliner.

The first border is a cotton sateen ombre fabric. Some of the same fabric is used in the center piecing as well. Then a triple border set creates the next visual border with Hawaiian prints which were printed on the diagonal not at a 45 degree angle, so made it a bit tricky to get them cut and set this way, fussy cut on point squares that are filigree hearts and a final black/white border. I put on an extra wide binding to help give a dark red visual without adding another border. I had thought I would applique a turtle and baby from Toni Whitney's designs, but alas my husband liked it like this so, that's how I finished it up.

It's now ready for a good cuddle on the couch.

"Our Honeymoon Quilt"
87" x 96"
Long-arm Machine Quilted, Hand guided "Heart Strings" pantograph, White Aurifil thread, 50 wt.
Bleached 80/20 batting

Thanks for stopping by! To nominate this quilt for Viewer's Choice, grab the address link from your browser and go here to paste it: http://amyscreativeside.com/2014/10/24/bloggers-quilt-festival-viewers-choice/

Here is a link back to the Large Category in Amy's Creative Side - Quilt Blogger's Festival.

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Rosie's BOMb

Excited to share with you my 'Rosie' quilt. Remember Rosie the Riveter? If you're not familiar with this poster, 'Rosie' was an iconic image for the women who went to work during World War II to help with the war effort, many were riveters.

When I saw people participating in the Sewn by Leila We Can Do It! Skill Builder Sampler, I didn't immediately jump on board. Six months in, I realized she had used the poster as her 'button' for the quilt-a-long (QAL).
Perhaps being an engineer by education, I've always appreciated the poster for what the women did in the war effort and had an interest in it. I now HAD to get involved with the QAL, but mostly because I wanted to take the poster and put it in the middle of the quilt. The beauty of the QAL is that it is really a skill builder and everyone was doing their own thing with the blocks. Photos of blocks were being posted in a flickr group and no one had primary colors. This was a fun process to participate in and I was excited about how I would surprise everyone at the end with the addition of the poster being incorporated into the quilt itself.

Using my EQ7, I started drawing each block in the software and placing it into the quilt. I also chose to color the blocks in a way that would complement the poster. Emphasizing white/blue in the top blocks, yellow in the middle blocks, and the dark red in the lower blocks to help anchor the whole quilt. Each corner block has angled elements, placed to help frame the whole piece. The sashing and borders bring in the rivet theme, and complement her head scarf.

I had all the blocks made and still needed to create the center piece. I tried to print it myself on a large format inkjet plotter (left before rinsing). Treating the fabric before and 'rinsing' it as instructed. Well, it became an 'antique' after rinsing, and all the quilt blocks were bold and bright, so I opted to submit the original poster image to spoonflower.com. Now anyone can have it!

"Rosie's BOMb" - Photo Credit: Bruce Andre Photography

Detail of the 'rivet'.

 This design is trying to make it looked like brushed steel between the rivets.


Using the sampler as a way to quilt each block uniquely. My long-arm machine quilting clients would then be able to see easily within one piece how different styles of quilting look all within one quilt. Open vs. closed/formal feathers or background fills vs. not, traditional vs. modern, etc.

 

 Quilting Rosie was the hardest. Here is where I was at when I needed to tackle the smooth face and arms. Consulting with Virginia Greaves helped significantly.

And this is where I ended up.

Some of the back side.

Thank you for stopping by during the Blogger's Quilt Festival. Your nomination is much appreciated. Before clicking through --copy the URL you are at, then use it to paste into the nomination linky.  I am a professional quilter (KISSed Quilts), and quilted this myself.