Blogger's Quilt Festival, Spring 2014: Lava Lovin'

The Blogger's Quilt Festival snuck up on me this spring! Lots of things have been sneaking up on me this spring though, truth be told. At any rate, I'm looking forward to spending spare hours going through the many wonderful submissions.

I completed this baby quilt earlier this spring for a dear friend of mine. The excellent pattern is called Mod Pop (available here) but I've named my version "Lava Lovin'" because the "blobs" remind me of a lava lamp. Groovy baby, indeed.

Read my original post about the finish here.

Quilt Name: Lava Lovin' 
Pattern: Mod Pop by JuliePickles (great pattern, by the way--really clear and easy to follow)
Fabric: Pretty much everything in my stash that was green, orange, aqua, yellow, or navy; and the backing fabric is Patty Young's "Just My Type" in Retro Clover
Size: 42" x 49"

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Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2013: Love on Nantucket

If you regularly read my blog, you're sick of this quilt, but no apologies, because I "love" it and it's my entry for the Blogger's Quilt Festival this fall!

This quilt was made for a good friend's wedding last month in Nantucket. Her wedding colors were navy and "Nantucket Red," a salmon color I was decidedly unenthusiastic about using. But then I made the quilt, and I've since decided that the combination of the two is really dynamite and I need to set my color skepticism aside more often.

My favorite part of the quilt is that I managed to find a camera print fabric in salmon, which was just perfect, as the groom is a photographer. It was the kind of happy coincidence that thrills me to no end. :)

My apologies for the somewhat poor photographs--I traveled to Nantucket for two weeks and forgot my camera, so I had to use my phone for all of these. But that's why they're not entered in the quilt photography category. ;)

Quilt Stats

Pattern:  LOVE by Tula Pink

Finished Size:  Approximately 50" x 60"

Fabric: Kona White and an unidentified navy. Then bits and pieces of salmon and navy fabrics from the stash, including 2wenty Thr3e, Les Amis, and Echo.

Backing: Gridlock in White Navy by Dear Stella

Binding: Unidentified navy stripe

Pieced and quilted by: Me, on my Bernina 930

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Blogger's Quilt Festival

If you regularly check in here, you have seen this quilt before, but it's my favorite so far and I wanted to have it done for the last Blogger's Quilt Festival, and I didn't. So, bear with yet another presentation of ye olde Partly Sunny Quilt!* If this is your first visit, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you like the quilt!

I made this for the wedding of one of my best friends last July. (Well, the wedding was in July...the quilt was finished in December. Oops. Explains a lot about the snow in the photos though, huh?)

I love this pattern (Chain Linked by Amy Smart) because it's very easy, yet has a great deal of visual impact. It's a fun way to showcase some favorite prints, and I could easily see myself using this pattern again.

Specs:

"Party Sunny" (pattern: Chain Linked by Amy Smart)

Finished size: 61.5" x 82.5"

Quilting: By me! I echoed the white "chains" 1/4" away from the edge.

First blogged here.

Check out the hundreds of other amazing quilts at the festival!

*So, the name is new! I'm trying to name my quilts more creatively than "gray and yellow quilt" or "hourglass quilt." The lame name syndrome needed to end!

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