Nomination Time 2012 Fall Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Posted by PersimonDreams on Nov 2, 2012 in Featured, quilt | 2 comments

Last Friday I posted about my ‘Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt’ (Quilt 138) for Amy’s Creative Side’s Fall Blogger’s Quilt Festival.  The deadline has passed for new quilts and over 600 quilts were entered into the festival – TONS of amazing browsing and goggling at quilts to be had!

 

It is now time to Nominate your favorite quilts to win!  I really hope you take a few minutes to nominate my ‘Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt’ – Quilt 138 for some of it’s appropriate categories.  I’m going to share with you the quilts I nominated and also hint at some categories that Quilt 138 – the Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt would fit under.  You can also vote for you FAVORITE quilt fo the entire by going to THIS LINK.  (ahem…quilt 138…)

Nominate your favorite quilts to win! To nominate, list the entry number from the Festival below. {http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/10/26/bloggers-quilt-festival-fall-2012/} One nomination per category, please. Thanks for taking the time! Good Luck ~ Amy

As I was browsing the over 600 quilts entered I’ll admit I didn’t look at each post…just way too much.  The picture each blogger decided to post in the link was very detrimental in what I clicked on – definitely needed to be an eye catcher!  Here are the finalist for my nominations…

Favorite Baby Quilt

I nominate Quilt 429  LOVE the story behind this quilt – incredible!

Favorite Throw Quilt

Quilt 138 would fit in this category pretty well…  Here’s what I chose:

I nominate Quilt 456

Favorite Bed Quilt

I nominate Quilt 422

Favorite Group or Bee Quilt

I nominate Quilt 453

Favorite Two Color Quilt

I nominate Quilt 491. Stolen  Not only is this stunning work…but this quilt was stolen!  Check out the blog post to see what to do if you’ve seen this quilt!

Favorite ROYGBIV Quilt

Another category my Quilt 138 would fit in…

I nominate Quilt 145.

Favorite Applique Quilt

I nominate Quilt 21 super cool technique to create this fun effect!

Favorite Hand-Quilted Quilt

I nominate Quilt 140.  I LOVE scrabble – this quilt is fabulous!

 

Favorite Home Machine Quilted Quilt

I nominate Quilt 61

Favorite Professionally Quilted Quilt

I nominate Quilt 274

Favorite Quilt Photographer

I’ll admit…I was pretty happy with how my photo’s for this quilt turned out.  And now that I got a new camera I can only hope to get some amazing new pictures! But below was just a wonderful way to utilize a quilt!

 

 

I nominate Quilt 40

Favorite Art Quilt

I nominate Quilt 26

Favorite Doll/Mini Quilt

I Nominate Quilt 99

Favorite Wall Hanging

I nominate Quilt  502

Favorite Scrap Quilt

Quilt 138 was also made entirely out of scraps…yet another option for you if you’ve found other favorites in the other categories it would fit under…

I nominate: Quilt 477

Alright – this post helped me figure out all my nominations!  I hope you enjoyed the little ‘peak’ I shared with you of just a few of the amazing quilts entered in this year’s festival.  Head on over to Amy’s blog  – vote, nominate, and enjoy!

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Time to Vote in Fabrics N Quilts Scrap Quilt Contest

Posted by PersimonDreams on Sep 3, 2012 in Featured, quilt, quilt challenge | 0 comments

It’s that time!  The quilts are all in!  And now it’s time for you to choose your favorite quilt and cast your vote!  All voting happens over at www.Fabricsnquilts.com so head over there after you peruse all the contestants.

SunShowerQuilts-Scrappy Spool Illusions

 

HarleyWife57-Stacked Coins

SewCookandTravel-Framed Charms

VroomansQuilts-Scrappy Roman Stripe

MadAKAMom-Improve Quilted

SewFrench-Joseph’s Coat of Many Colors

 

Lapacek-Orphan Block Scrappy Squares *** I’ll be blogging more about Diane’s Quilt soon***

Click HERE to see Sew Cute’s Irish Chain quilt

PersimonDreams-Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt

 

Patchwork Penguin-Oklahoma Backroads

Renfrees-Merry Go Round

Mamajo116-Ticker Tape

Mamajo116-Scraps of Little Apples

Mamajo116-Sunbonnet Sue

Mamajo116-Mod Circles

Margie 1914-Theresa

Mary Val1-Scrap Jar Stars

Beccas Crazy Projects-Scrap Happens 2012

So please VOTE your favorite!

 

AND there’s still today to get in on my little GIVEAWAY!

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Fabrics N Quilts Scrap Quilt Contest 2012 Free Form Quilt WIP Report

Posted by PersimonDreams on Aug 16, 2012 in Featured, quilt, quilt challenge | 2 comments

I’m too excited about my Scrap Quilt Contest piece to blog about anything else.  Right now I’m going to show you how my quilt transformed from these nine blocks:

to this ‘Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt’ top.  I had a difficult time deciding what was the easiest and best way to ‘blend’ my nine blocks together.  Where does one start?  I finally just started.  I chose to start with the black/white center and the orange block.  I also decided that I wanted to create somewhat of a ‘border’ for this quilt using my brown scraps.  I didn’t add those in until I started the blending process.  You’ll see how they come in to play as the quilt progresses.  This first blend seemed together very smoothly and fast.  I sort of figured this is how the rest would go as well.

 

I soon realized that when you’re just worrying about 3 colors (black/white, orange, and brown) it is much easier than you’re working about 5… (black/white, orange, brown, yellow and green) which was the case as I started my ‘blending’ process on the yellow block.  I also realized here that I really needed to add to the black and white center block to make it work with the rest of the pieces.  This was perfect actually because I could add in some of the colors from the color wheel to help with the blending process.

I just realized I should step back a second.  How was I ‘blending’ my blocks?  Well…I pulled out the corresponding scrap fabric containers depending on which colors I was working on.  At first I had out the black/white container, the orange scrap container, and my brown scrap container.  I made strips using the three different fabrics and then cut into the existing blocks to mix the strips in.  The orange blended into the black/white and vice versus.  Same went for the brown.  It was a lot of cutting, sewing, turning, cutting some more, and sewing.  I’m probably not explaining it very well so if it’s something you’re interested in doing I strongly recommend getting the book ‘create your own free-form quilts’ by Rayna Gillman.  She does a really good job explaining the process.

Once the yellow was blended I had to blend the green, sew it to the yellow and then piece it to the first blend I did.

My goal in piecing quilts is to always sew the shortest distance possible.  So…the next section to blend was the red and pink.

After that – purple then blue…turquoise was last.

The blending process of the quilt took me way longer than I thought I would.  I wanted to make sure that everything flowed really well together and to do that…LOTS of cutting, piecing, cutting, piecing, piecing, cutting, and more piecing was necessary.

 

But in the end…it was totally worth it.  My quilt top was finally pieced!  I could hardly believe it!

Next…off to Barb, QuiltsbyBarb, for the quilting!

 

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Fabrics N Quilts Scrap Quilt Contest 2012 – Free Form Quilt WIP Report

Posted by PersimonDreams on Aug 13, 2012 in fabric, Featured, quilt, quilt challenge, Uncategorized | 1 comment

I figured it was time to show you the four other scrap blocks I created for my Free Form Scrap Quilt since I’m getting to the point of the FINALY QUILT REVEAL!!  That’s right – I just have to hand stitch the binding on and I will have a quilt to photo and enter into the Contest!  I want to show you how the last four colors came together, I’ll do one post showing the ‘blending’ of the colors and finally – a reveal!  I won’t make you wait as long between posts as I did between the first two (or at least, I’ll try really hard not too).

I know technically the rainbow is made up of Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet but…I had to make a few decisions based on what scraps I actually had to work with and the number of spaces I needed to fill on the quilt (9 – with one being the black/white center).  My next color was turquoise or aqua or teal or whatever you want to call it.  Above is a picture of my scrap bin. 

And here is how the block started.

Next up – BLUE!  I have LOTS of blue scraps so this one went together quite easily…  Here’s how the block started.Next is my purple/violet section.  I didn’t feel like I had a lot to work with here but I think I still made it happen…  Here is the block!  And lastly – I put together a pink block.  It was honestly difficult to decide exactly how I wanted to break the colors up but pink was a pretty easy decision. 

I knew that if I added in a pink block that at the very least my daughter, Cedi, would like the quilt   

And here’s a picture of the nine blocks up on my design wall.   At this point I thought I was close to the end.  Little did I know just how much time the ‘blending’ would take…stay tuned…

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Scrap Quilt Challenge!

Posted by PersimonDreams on Jun 25, 2012 in quilt challenge, sponsors | 2 comments

I just saw that one of my fabulous sponsors, Fabrics N Quilts, has given us quilter’s a challenge!  And anyone that reads my blog knows that I LOVE a good challenge!

Fabrics N Quilts  Scrap Challenge Quilt Contest 2012

It’s a challenge to get us to use up our scraps!  I know this will be a good thing for me – and I’m guessing I’m not alone.

Check out the rules on her blog post HERE.  I’m definitely in – and I have until August 31st!  It’s time for me to ‘think outside the square’ again!

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