Blogger's Quilt Festival!

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Name:  Gemstones for a Friend

Block:  Gemstones from Rachel, Stitched in Color

Quilted by Me

Size:  70" x 84"
Best Category:  Favourite Bed Quilt, Favourite Home Machine Quilted Quilt, Favourite two colour quilt

I decided to enter Gemstones for a Friend in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.  I love this quilt!  I finished it this past July and made it for a special friend.  She is kind, generous, warm, funny, special, loyal and most certainly colourful and so is this quilt.  That is what made it just right for her.  I had wanted to make her a quilt for awhile but had not settled on a design.  I think I always knew it would be with these colours.  I found this block on Rachel's blog, Stitched in Color and the rest just fell into place.  Rachel calls the block "gemstones."  And this is "Gemstones for a Friend."

I used a variety of fabrics.  Scraps and bits and pieces from my stash.  The solid purple used in the setting triangles is Kona Berry and the dots are from Stof.  The binding is a strip from the Prospect Park line that I had stashed just for bindings!  Perfect!  I quilted it densely in straight lines with Aurifil 50 wt.  I used a lot of thread!  I have to say that it was my husband who had the idea to use the 2 different fabrics for the setting triangles.  It totally works and is just the quirky touch it needed to make it just the right quilt for my buddy.

The backing is pieced with colourful fabric from my stash and can you see the label?  I free-motion quilted some handwriting.  It even looks like my handwriting!

I have to say the gift was a success.  And it is just the quilt I wanted to share for the festival.  I hope you like it too.