Monday 20 May 2013

Bloggers Quilt Festival - my quilt for Enne

Well hello there. No I am not quite back and my house is still in a state of renovation but the progress is huge and I am hoping to be back at my sewing machine in a weeks time and soon thereafter with a blog post of a works in progress. God I can't tell how I miss my Janome !

Still, I swore to myself when I finished the quilt for Enne before Christmas that I would enter it to the Blogger's quilt festival. None of my quilts has ever had a more positive response and hardly a week goes by without it being tagged somewhere. So I guess it would almost be a crime not to enter it.



The funny thing is that when my sister commissioned me to make this quilt for here mother-in-law I wasn't really sure that it would would be a good one. I had my doubts throughout the entire process which proves that you can be totally wrong about something. Don't get me wrong when it was finally finished I loved it and how can you not with so much Oakshott Lyon in it but I still was utterly unprepared and overwhelmed by the response of the quilting community and that of my family.


 It took me a while to get my head around it but I finally decided that this quilt was probably one of my best ones.


And what was double wonderful was that Enne who used to sew a lot herself was really happy about it and appreciated all the work that went into it. The quilt was quilted on my trusted Janome 7700 along the lines of the patterned fabric. The Oakshott Lyon is a delicate fabric and I did not want to quilt on top of the fabric so decided I quilt around it. This produced a great effect on the overall quilt.


This quilt is based on Megan's Trajectory quilt that can be found here including a tutorial.
My original post can be found here.

17 comments:

  1. Wow, I love this quilt! I hope it's okay if I pin t to my Pinterest-page.

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  2. It is gorgeous and the quilting really shows off the design and the fabrics!

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  3. Stunning quilt!! You did a fantastic job on it too.

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  4. I can see why it has received rave reviews!! Just. beautiful.

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  5. Such a beautiful quilt J! A very worthy entry! Jxo

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  6. This is fabulous! I love the flow of the lines in the piecing and quilting together.

    Thanks for sharing!

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  7. Love it so much, and the Trajectory has been on my to-do list for ages. Thanks for sharing this beauty.

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  8. Really beautiful.....I love it!!

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  9. I remember when I first saw this I caught my breath. So so lovely. Thank you for entering it ; )

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  10. Fantastic! Great layout... So awesome.

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  11. The low volume background with the beautiful Oakshott colors is perfect.

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  12. This turned out beautifully! Thank you so much for linking - I really appreciate it!

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  13. It really is beautiful. The quilting design is perfection with it.

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  14. such an unusual, but totally wonderful quilt :-)

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  15. This is a beautiful quilt, colors interesting,design of quilting well thought out, just every art works together, excellent.

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Thank you for your comments! I love reading them and will answer every question you have on my projects. But I have a very busy daytime job and am therefore not able to thank each and every comment. Please don't be offended if I won't reply.