Saturday, October 25, 2014

It's Blogger's Quilt Festival Time - 81 The Giant Mostrosity

A huge thank you to Amy of Amy's Creative Side for organizing the Fall 2014 Blogger's Quilt Festival. You can submit nominations for two of your own quilts. It is a great way to share your work with others and to be eligible for some lovely prizes. Take a look at all of the registered quilts and then select three for Viewers' Choice category.  Nominations are open now and they close on October 31. You can start voting for your favourite quilts in all categories starting November 1. Voting closes on November 7 and the winners will be announced on November 8th!

I will enter two quilt and this is the first, 81 The Giant Monstrosity. I am working on a pattern for my quilt and will publish it in the near future. I'll be making it available free of charge! I've entered 81 in the category Home Machine Quilted. This photograph  shows the quilt but doesn't show the quilting so I'll share some close-ups.

81 The Giant Monstrosity

UPDATE: 81 is one of the Viewer's Choice Finalists! How exciting is that? If you like my quilt you can also vote for it in the Viewer's Choice category as well!

I used a neutral soft grey backing fabric and it shows the quilting beautifully. I used my Juki TL2010Q domestic sewing machine. While it doesn't have a lot of bells and whistles is is a workhorse and the stitch quality is amazing!



This is what it looks like from the front. There was virtually no marking required. I just doodled with my sewing machine and I adore the effect!


In this picture the quilt is folded so you can see the outer border front and back. I love the effect of the straight line quilting in the border!







I blogged about how I quilted the background filler designs and you can read about it here and here.

Until I post again, happy sewing!
Karen H

23 comments:

  1. Wow, there is an amazing amount of work here. Thanks for sharing!

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  2. This is such a detailed and gorgeous quilt! And wonderful that you are putting out a pattern for it! Love your quilting, as always!

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  3. So glad you entered this one, Karen. It is a work of ART.

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  4. Wow, your doodling is amazing! The quilting really finishes this quilt nicely! I will definitely be looking for it when it comes time to vote!

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  5. Karen this is absolutely amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing it. If you are on Facebook -- would love to have you share an image with a linkback here on a new Facebook page Free Motion Quilting Frenzy - to inspire others to FMQ on their domestic machines. Best of luck in the Quilt Festival!! WOW.

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  6. this really is remarkably beautiful - gosh I could wrap myself contentedly up forever in this !

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  7. This quilt is just amazing in every way!! I love that your quilting was done freehand, you have steadier hands than me, that's for sure. The other reason I love this quilt beside the wonderful fussy cutting and beautiful appliqué is your inclusion of all the butterflies.

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  8. WOW this is an absolutely stunning quilt!!! :)

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  9. Splendide !!!
    Magnifique travail de quilting !!!

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    1. Merci Julie! Vous êtes un blogueur pas de réponse donc je ne pourrais pas vous envoyer un courriel de remerciement.

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  10. Wow, wow, and wow! I love your quilt. Thank you for sharing and for putting out a pattern.

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  11. Karen I would be happy with just the talent you have in your baby finger...really just so unbelievably gorgeous. I hope this is on one of your walls I would take any pictures move all the funiture and just have the quilt on a wall to admire everytime I was in the room, gorgeous gorgeou gorgeous. I am just a totally awesome fan of yours!

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  12. This quilt is beautiful and the quilting is stunning!

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  13. That is a giant project. You did a fabulous job on the quilting. No marking and it looks great. Thansk for sharing this jem.

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  14. My but this quilt is a real labor of love! What an amazing amount of work! I think your doodle quilting works perfectly on it - and I am a great fan of no marking!!!

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  15. Your quilt is beautiful thanks for sharing.

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  16. Lol this isn't a quilt...it's a vocation!!! Wow Amazing!! WOW

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  17. Beautiful! I voted for yours as one of my favorites!

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