2nd entry for Bloggers Quilt Festival
Thank you to Cherie’s Quilting Journey who is taking on this quilt as her first full paper pieced quilt.
This is my 2nd entry. If you haven’t visited and looked at all of the wonderful quilts I really recommend you do so. There are so many talented quilters who without this their work would not be shown. Bloggers quilt festival
The name of this quilt is For the love of geese. It is entirely paper pieced and quilted by me. I love the circling geese design however I really dislike curved piecing. Maybe its just me, perhaps I haven’t found the trick for piecing large circles without using pins to keep everything in place while I stitch. If there isn’t a drop of blood somewhere on the quilt, I didn’t complete it. Fortunately, after butchering myself on a daily basis as a cosmetologist over the years I have gotten pretty handy at removing blood from fabric.
With that said, I created this pattern because I love flying geese, traditional and modern. After reaching the end of the flying geese internet and not finding a pattern for what I was looking for I set out on a new path. Sure I have taken blocks from modern quilt patterns and block patterns from previous generations and created quilts. But I had never designed the entire quilt. Many drafts and 3 tops later For the love of geese was born. I’m not sure if everyone who drafts their own designs have a failure top or 2 like I do. It was worth all the fuss though.
My first entry is a red and white medallion quilt.
Congrats, what a stunner!
Thank you
Wow!! There’s a huge amount of work in this quilt too. Thank you for joining in the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival.
Fascinating original design. Stunning quilt finish!!
Thank you, I love this quilt. When I’m finished with my current project I will make another but with additional blocks for a full size quilt.
Wow! What a striking quilt design! I agree that it was worth a couple of attempts, because you certainly got it right on this one. I love it!!
Thank you. My first attempt the center didn’t fit so well. 2nd, I put a colored patch where a background patch should be but it went together so well. It was at that point I also thought I could sell the pattern. So I started over, snapped photos and kept a diary. 3rd time was the charm. Now I’m working on getting the quilt visible on the web which is why I entered it. Btw, it can be purchased on Craftsy.
Thank you, I thought so too.