Blogger's Quilt Festival

Since I can't be at Quilt Market (but I am vicariously living it through the tweets, blog posts and Facebook updates of those who are there!), I will participate in the wonderful Blogger's Quilt Festival that Amy from Amy's Creative Side puts on twice a year.

I thought back on quilts I've made recently and chose my Central Park Postage Stamp quilt to feature.  I think this might have been the most fun I ever had making a quilt.  Seriously.  I don't know what it was - the fabric itself, how the quilt was coming out, the process or what...but making  this quilt was a blast!

The impetus for this quilt was seeing my friend Becky's version during a guild sewing day.  I had followed Rachel Griffith's (P.S. I Quilt) Postage-Stamp-Quilt-a-Long on her blog but didn't jump in until I saw Becky's quilt.  It wasn't long before I went out and bought my own jelly rolls of Kate Spain's Central Park (one of my all-time-favorite lines - see my Central Park:  A Love Story post from last year) and Moda Bella Snow.  It took some figuring how to take Rachel's instructions for a scrappy quilt and make my quilt with one print per row like Becky's - I loved the way the color cascaded down the quilt.  Hubby and I spent a long time with the rows spread out on the living room floor rearranging them to make sure they were in exactly right order (and then decided after it was sewn together, one of the rows was probably in the wrong place.  But, I don't care, it's all subjective.  And it was sewn together and things have to be really, really bad for me to unpick - LOL!) 

I finished the quilt top in two weeks and quilted it with the Daisy Swirl pantograph...

I was thrilled when I took the quilt out of the dryer and was able to snuggle in it's crinkly, quilty goodness!

It's almost summer right?  I think it's time to pull this quilt out storage for the season!

Check out Amy's blog for all of the other Blogger's Quilt Festival entries!