Friday, October 25, 2013

Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2013



Name:  It Looks Like My Garden
Design: Playing with values, 6" HSTs, inspired by Katie Pedersen tutorial
Size:  approx 84" by 90"
Fabric:  assorted fabrics and scraps in light and dark values
Quilted: by me with Aurifil 50 wt in light grey (2615)


I made this quilt during the summer and yes, I have posted about it already.  It is just such a favourite that I thought I would enter it in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  I was such a lot of fun to make and it was also wonderful to use up a bunch of fabric that was lingering in my stash that I may have wondered if I would ever use.  When you start focusing, not so much on the print but, more on the value, all kinds of fabric, all of sudden, becomes so much more acceptable!  I will admit that there is a fabric in this quilt that actually has turnips, asparagus and brussel sprouts.  I think it was a Martha Negley print.  It works!  If you look carefully at the picture below, you might just be able to spot a bit of turnip in a few places.

 The explosion of colours and the play of values just hit all the right notes for me.  My friend Sue saw the quilt when it was on the design wall and she said, "Hey, it looks like your garden."  And it does so that is what I am calling it.  I have wanted to make a values quilt for years.  I have drooled over the values quilts that Katie Pedersen has made and I finally just had to do it.  





The back is a collection of bits and pieces from my stash that I am trying to use and a classic text print from Stof.  Before I knew it, the back had become a quilt in itself!

The quilting was done by me on my Janome Horizon. I used a light grey Aurifil 50 wt in the rows of straight line quilting.  Two rows on either side of the seams lines in the vertical.  I love straight line quilting.





AmysCreativeSide
Linking up with the Blogger's quilt festival!  Bed quilts category!

27 comments:

  1. Really pretty! Good luck with the competion!
    Esther
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  2. Really lovely. So many beautiful fabrics and arranged so well! :-)

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  3. Great to see this one again Cathy. I love the play with values, something I have not practiced enough. It has such an amazing effect.

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  4. I loved it the first time and still its an awesome quilt!

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  5. This is such a lovely quilt. And you're right that even the ugly ducklings can turn into something wonderful if you can find the right way to use them. (That said, I think I found some asparagus/Brussels sprouts - is it the red background one? - and it's less "bad" of a bad food print than some I've seen :D)

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  6. So so pretty. Lovely to see this one again.

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  7. You know how much I love this one. And it makes me regret how few florals I seem to have in my stash... :-) I will never get sick of seeing this one pop up on your blog!

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  8. gorgeous!!!! The colours are so vibrant and rich. I love it!

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  9. Love this, fab choice of colours :o)

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  10. I love scrappy (value) quilts and when I saw a photo of this one in an earlier post decided to make it. My community quilt group "gifted" me with 300 hsts. I made more and have just finished the top.
    In all likelihood, when completed, it will go to the cancer ward of our hospital. Thanks for the inspiration.

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  11. Gorgeous! Love how the colors pops! I made a couple of these years ago and was so shocked at how easy it is to put strange fabrics together.:)

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  12. This might just be my favorite quilt, ever! Really great job.

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  13. I love the picture of flowers with it - so perfect for its floral cheeriness!

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  14. This is a wonderful value quilt, I love it!

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  15. I love this quilt. I have a question. How did you get your pieced squares on the back to line up with the front so that when you quilted it the quilting lined up with the backing pieces too?

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  16. You are right, Cathy, about value making all the difference. Your quilt is lovely! A true inspiration!

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  17. I love the pieced back just as much as all those lovely HSTs on the front. Great job!

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  18. Beautiful. I did spot a turnip. Love yours best in the "bed-quilt" category, you got my vote. I think it's because I like the design--where you placed the "center" (off centered), and the contrast of values. Great job.

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  19. Gorgeous! I love all the different colors and values in the quilt!

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  20. This is beautiful. I have always wanted to make one of these. I would never tire of looking at this quilt.

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  21. ¡Felicitaciones por el premio! Que telas tan hermosas. Es un quilt muy alegre.

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