Having just finished binding this quilt today, I thought I'd enter it in the Blogger's Quilt Festival in the scrappy category. Many of the blocks were made for me by members of Hive #5 of The Stash Bee. The design is the popular Japanese X and + block and I asked for warm colours for the points, black crosses, texty white backgrounds and turquoise ends.
I love all of the different fabrics. Many of which I'd not seen before. I particularly liked the New York cityscape which I understand can only be purchased at The City Quilter.
I used a new Border to Border quilt pattern called Vine by Anna Bright which I was very pleased with and I have used it on a recent client quilt too.
The backing is a Robert Kaufman wide screen print from Fat Quarter Shop bought in their recent promotion and I love it as the binding too. It really hides the joins on the sashing.
If you're in need of a pick me up, do visit Amy's blog to view all of the quilt's entered into the competition. Mine is in the scrappy quilts category and voting starts on1 November.
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Love the arrangement of the blocks and the bright colours. It reminds me of jelly beans! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteIt's lovely Sue, love the combination of black and bright colours. Is it for you?
ReplyDeleteLove your color choices. Makes such a fun quilt
ReplyDeleteI'd say that's a super successful bee quilt! It came together beautifully!
ReplyDeleteLove organized scrappiness! This is amazing; it caught my eye off the link!
ReplyDeleteThis is a lovely scrappy quilt, I love the way you have combined red and yellow without it being too loud!
ReplyDeleteGreat! The colours cohere so well in the whole quilt!
ReplyDeletea great quilt, love the texty fabric and the new york cityscape.
ReplyDeleteGreat scrappiness!
ReplyDeleteAmazing quilt - thanks for sharing on le challenge.
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