Sunday, October 30, 2011

Blogger's Quilt Festival: Fall 2011

It is Fall Quilt Festival time!  Amy at Amy's Creative Side is gracious to host such an event with prizes too!  I enjoy them because I often find a new blog to look at.  I always love some good eye candy!

This is my contribution.  In fact, this is what brought me into blogland.  I love traditional quilts and love scrappy-goodness.  I wanted to incorporate crumb blocks into a larger design.  While I love crumb quilts, I like when the busy-ness of the quilt is tamed down into a larger design or pattern.  I think I accomplished this here.


The above quilt ended up about twin sized.  I used warm and white batting and machine quilted it using grey thread.  I have learned that grey thread blends in very well when quilting in a scrappy quilt.  It is my NEUTRAL thread!

Here are closeups of the quilting:




I hope that next year I can come up with another idea of a quilt design using crumbs to share with you!

Below is a second quilt I made with this pattern.  I named this one I-Spy a Crumb Patch.  It uses an I-Spy format and is child sized.  I made prairie point around the outside border.  I hear this was very much enjoyed by the recipient and his older sister.  She was entertained by all of the things she was able to find!


Thank you for allowing me to show this quilt again.  I really love this quilt and it is currently thrown on my bed for extra warmth now that it is getting cold.

17 comments:

  1. Very spectacular, i love this:)

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  2. Great way to use up crumbs! It's striking and scrappy, but not overwhelming.

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  3. Love re-visiting thes quilts! I had not seen the close up of the quilting, so that was wonderful. And great of you to show how to vary the pattern a little - from geese border to a prairie point border. Both are just lovely.

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  4. Both of them are wonderful. Love the way you used a different layout in the borders. Great scrap quilts.

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  5. Two great scrappy quilts! Well done!

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  6. Greetings from Hungary. I love the asymmetrical quilt. The colors are beautiful. Very nice work.

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  7. these are great quilts, love the colours

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  8. I love all the colors in this quilt!

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  9. Oh I just love your quilt.
    Like you, I love that scrappy
    goodness. :o)

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  10. two of my favorite things....

    scraps and I Spy!!

    wonderful job on both

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  11. Great job!! I love to crumb quilt. I have been making crumb blocks for ages. I must over 100 blocks done. I need to put them together into something?? Have a nice night... Hugs

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  12. Super cute! I love the crumb block. I need to learn how to ake those becuase I am a crumb keeper :) The flying geese make such a beautiful border.

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  13. wow love the use of scraps and love the quilting -- excellent job! =)

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  14. omg, you are my new favorite quilt blogger! i adore this quilt! I also like crumb blocks well balanced in a quilt, can't wait to read more of your posts and see what else you've been making..

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  15. Natasha, those are great quilts. I love prairies points. Think they add so much. Fun to make this pattern as an i-spy. Mights use that idea. Thanks for sharing and have a great day

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  16. Gorgeous quilts - I have just re-started doing crumbs to make something similar - the centre of a star block - and I am doubly inspired after re-visiting these. Thanks for you hint re the grey thread - I use it for piecing but never thought of it for quilting scrap quilts.

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