Time to Vote!

The voting is now open at the Blogger's Quilt Festival. There are lots of beautiful quilts to check out and you can vote for your 2 favorites in each category if you get there before the 29th. So far I have checked out the minis (I try to visit a category at a time so I'm not rushed). The bookshelf (great use of selvages) and the NY Beauty (love the ants!) were my favorites.
I was hoping to enter a quilt, but didn't get my act together to do so. Maybe next time.

Rainbow Geese Miniature

I made this miniature quilt (it measures about 18"x21") from scraps I had left over from other projects. The geese were made with 1"x 1.5" rectangles and I was able to find 100 different fabrics to use so no two geese are alike. I hoped to make the whole thing with fabric I had, but it needed a graphic border and nothing in my stash was quite right so I had to buy the black and white stripe. It is just what the quilt needed to show off all the colors. 

I machine pieced the quilt and hand quilted it with various colors of thread to blend into each block. The columns between the geese have a rope-type design hand quilted into them with purple thread. 

The quilt design, based on the traditional flying geese block is my own.

 I am entering this into the 2013 Bloggers Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side in the ROYGBIV Category. Check out all the beautiful festival quilts and please consider voting for mine.

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Amy's Creative Side is hosting a Blogger's Quilt Festival which begins this week. There are lots of great quilts already "on display" and I hope to get a post written on one of my quilts to enter before Halloween. I learned about it from Eva Paige Quilt Designs.
Speaking of which, I just finished the middle section of the purple twin size quilt I am making from EPQD's "Syncopated Ribbons" pattern. It went together really easily (the rotating cutting mat I borrowed from one of my bee ladies helped a lot).