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Saturday, October 25, 2014

2014 Bloggers' Quilt Festival entry #2

And this is my second entry in the applique section of Amy's Quilt Festival, my hand-appliqued queen-sized Bear Family Album...each bear was hand-appliqued with blanket-stitch...

...with twelve different members of the family, this is photo-heavy post, but worth it!

You can nominate my quilt for the Viewer's Choice here (if you like!)

...this was a block of the month quilt from Whichcraft in Invercargill, created over a period of months during 2008-2009. In 2012 I was able to sash the blocks and it was beautifully long-arm quilted by Barbara Joyce Quilting in Otatara...

Naturally, the teacher is my favourite!

Pre-quilting photos of each block...Sporty Bear...

Teacher Bear

Mama Bear

Papa Bear

Engineer Bear

Jogger Bear

Quilting Bear

Fishing Bear

Techno Bear

Gardener Bear

Nurse Bear

Dancer Bear

Saturday, January 12, 2013

January - a new bag and a finished Teddy Quilt

Close up of lining/handle pinstripe
(bought at Spotlight).

I put this small tote bag together yesterday and earlier in the week I put the binding onto my Bear Family Album quilt...

Birthday gift for Kath Johnson
- fabric is Moda Full Circle by Kathy Schmitz for Moda

Side A - bag is approx 12"x15" and was made from a magazine pattern:
'Bird Aviary set', in Handmade (Australia), Vol 27, No 8 2010

Side B

Bear Family Album - a queen-sized BOM from a few years back,
finally pieced in 2012 and beautifully quilted by Barbara Joyce Quilting in Otautau.

the teddies were hand appliqued over a period of about a year

Of course, my favourite is the teacher block!

And our beautiful Bess sneaked in for a photo too (don't tell Brian!)

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Bear Family Album quilt

This is a block-of-the-month queen-size quilt that I ordered from Whichcraft in Invercargill in about 2003? Finally got around to hand-appliqueing the blocks in about 2008 and 2009? Am not sure exactly.

Have had the frames/sashing/border fabrics and the finished blocks sitting in my UFO box for the past two years and have decided (an early NY resolution) to get it done!

7 Jan 2012: quilt-top completed! Now just waiting to be quilted and bound.

Was hard to get a good photo as the quilt is so big (and my handy helper hubby is off bowling!)

24 Dec 2011: So yesterday I framed all the blocks (except for the Mama and Papa as I didn't have enough of their framing fabric so will hunt out some more) and have sewn together the 'children' photos into rows ready to put altogether once the Mama and Papa are done.

Is a pattern from The Stitch Connection by Lynda Howell.