Time to Vote!

It's time for voting! Yeah, sure you can do that kind of voting as well, but what I'm really talking about is voting over at Amy's for the Blogger's Quilt Festival! The nominations are in and it's time to pick winners! Don't know who to vote for? Well, I say go with your gut but I do have some buddies in there! Several of the ones I nominated made it to the final round!

Here are a few quilts nominated by me and I'm sure they'd appreciate your vote! Michele's wonderful "Tribute to Danny" quilt is in the running for Best Bee quilt (I actually have a block in it too!). Then there's Julie from Distant Pickles whose wonderful Mod Pop is in for favorite throw quilt. Elaine's lovely little owl quilt is in for applique, and Heidi's palette is in for mini quilt. I have to say though, there are a lot of beautiful quilts and you wouldn't go wrong with voting for any that you choose, so get out there and vote!

As for me, I didn't get nominated for anything. But that's okay. I got my first Quilt U Be Mine square to work on yesterday and my brain has been working on overdrive trying to come up with something cool for it. this mystery round robin is going to be a bit different because we have up to 8" to play versus the 4" we had last time. I'm also hoping my regular Mystery Round Robin  arrives today. I'm so excited! I can't wait to see what happened to my little black paper pieced Singer! It's been so long, I hardly remember what it looked like when I sent it out!

Blogger's Quilt Festival

I almost didn't post a quilt for the Blogger's Quilt Festival since I haven't actually finished anything in a while, but then I decided to do something a bit different. I am posting about one I did for my hubby's cousin who lives in the Hague. This was one of two I actually did for his cousin's children. Instead of focusing on the front of the quilt, I actually wanted to post about the back since I love how it turned out.

 This was the back of the quilt with giant Granny Squares from charms.

The front was based on the Four Square Layer Cake Quilt. I did straight line quilting to echo the charms on the front.

Quilt size is approximately 64"x87 and fits a European twin

The design on the back was totally made up on the spur of the moment because Granny Squares were so big. I just thought it would be cool to make big ones because I had 5x5" squares.

Quilting: Straight line quilting echoing the squares on the front

Quilted by: me

Best Category: Bed quilt, ROYGBIV quilt, home machine quilted

I really loved how this one came together and how bright and colorful it is. Plus it's double sided! And it now it lives on a wee little twin bed in the Netherlands!