Friday 17 May 2013

The Bloggers Quilt Festival

Hello, and welcome to my blog if you have popped over from the Quilt Festival and this is a first time visit. The quilt I have entered is called Singing the Blues.


The colour concept for the quilt began with some layer cake squares I was given in a swap. The range of blues inspired me; the injections of bright colours worked for me perfectly. The hard bit was whittling down the colour pops to just three. 


I have long loved the plus quilt design but knew that I wished to do my own take on it. I wanted a fair amount of negative space so that the actual pluses stood out well against the background.


And I wanted to have no interruption to the flow of the design. No edge, not even the binding. I went about this by incorporating the pluses that touched the edge right into the binding. 


The final part of the process, the quilting, was another new to me process. I had never done such tight quilting on a quit before. It was a learning process, to say the least. But I gained invaluable help from my wonderful online friends and love the texture that the quilting adds to the overall finish.


Singing the Blues finishes at 42" x 50". I used a range of quilters cottons, backing it with Kona white. It is quilted with Aurifil 50 white on the front and an Aurifil orange on the back. 


Thank you for taking the time to stop by and see my entrance into the quilt festival. I love visiting the blogs of as many of the entrants as possible. There is always so much talent and inspiration. 

AmysCreativeSide.com


Susan

59 comments:

  1. I love seeing this one again! Those random pink and orange crosses are the perfect 'foil' to the pretty blues!

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  2. Hi! Your plus quilt is beautiful! I love your own way to design it and the colours are super! x Teje

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  3. I love this one...it is so very clever.

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  4. Yey!

    Thanks for reminding me about BQF.

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  5. So lovely! I love the pops of colour alongside the blues :)

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  6. love it! (but you know that already!)

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  7. Gorgeous Susan - this works so well!

    Have to say thank goodness for skirt hangers (wink)

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  8. A worthy entrant to the competition Mrs, just lovely!

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  9. It's such a happy quilt Susan and I always love a plus quilt - gorgeous!!

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  10. Love your quilt the colours are so beautiful!

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  11. Still love this quilt Susan! Its just beautiful!

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  12. Lovely! Good luck Mrs xx

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  13. love this - the pink and the orange crosses popping out are wonderful :-)

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  14. Oh, Susan, it's wonderful. I love the little specks of color in the "rebel" crosses. Absolutely beautiful quilting.

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  15. I love this quilt - it's lovely to see it again!

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  16. I was wondering what you were going to enter.... This is easily one of my favourites of yours. The quilting and the matching binding - icing on the cake!

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  17. Tis lovely. Lovely when I first commented and lovely now :-)

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  18. Love the pop of colors plus the quilting.

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  19. You did a great job extending the color into the binding. Such a fun bright quilt, I like the PLUS design too.

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  20. Glad this one got another airing too :o)

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  21. Another fab entry Susan - I can see some prizes coming your way.

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  22. Great quilt, Susan! I really love the idea of extending the plus into the binding!

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  23. I love the pops of color and how you did the binding.

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  24. Lovely to see this beauty again! Jxo

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  25. Beautiful! I love geometric design.

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  26. Fabulous, Susan! I love a good plus quilt and your quilting is perfect. Excellent idea on the binding, too!

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  27. Perfect entry for the festival, Susan. I love this quilt.

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  28. It's an amazing quilt! Congratulations. Love the quilting on it too!

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  29. Your quilt is lovely. The work you have done with the quilting really finishes it off.

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  30. Love those pops of color in the sea of blue. Really eye catching!

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  31. This one is simply gorgeous and I just love that quilting.

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  32. This one is simply gorgeous and I just love that quilting.

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  33. The edging and binding on that quilt is genius Susan. That's one lovely quilt!

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  34. I love this quilt! It is amazing how the color pops really make the quilt look three dimensional.

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  35. So beautiful - love the pops of colour and the dense quilting. The way you extended the plusses out to the binding is brilliant too.

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  36. So bright and fresh and clean. Good luck!

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  37. So bright and fresh and clean. Good luck!

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  38. So bright and fresh and clean. Good luck!

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  39. Definitely a quilt with lots of pluses- Beautiful colours and I love the quilting!!

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  40. I love the pops of color from the pink, yellow and orange crosses! I especially like what you did with the binding! Thanks for sharing your beautiful quilt with us!

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  41. What a fun little quilt. I love the way you've quilted it.

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  42. Fabulous Susan, such a clever trick on the binding.
    My mum used to have Singing the Blues on a 78............by Guy Mitchell in case you wondered.

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  43. Such a lovely quilt. Love the pop of color you used with the blue and white!

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  44. I love the negative space on this! It looks great.

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  45. This is lovely. The quilting is such a great finish to this.

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  46. What a great quilt! Extending the pluses into the white binding is a great idea. I love the quilting though, echoing out from the central cross from the corners.

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  47. I have a soft spot for pluses/crosses too and yours looks so fresh, love the colour theme adn colours pops you chose. Very effective quilting.

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  48. This is beautiful!! You did a fantastic job and I love, love, love the binding. Such a great idea :)

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  49. I love the texture from the dense quilting - and the negative space really makes the pluses pop!

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  50. This quilt is awesome! I love the quilting; it compliments the design perfectly!

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  51. This quilt is awesome! I love the quilting; it compliments the design perfectly!

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  52. How beautiful. I just finished the plus quilt as a memory quilt using baby clothes. I've got to get it quilted now. I love how you quilted yours. Great job.

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  53. This is a fun quilt. Love how the binding disappears.

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  54. I am still in love with your little plusses quilt! And your precision-piecing of the matching binding still leaves me in awe :o) A lovely quilt, Susan!!!

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  55. this has great quilting. i love it.

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  56. Just Voted! This is such a gorgeous quilt. Good Luck Susan!

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