bloggers quilt festival

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It's time for bloggers quilt festival fall 2012, hosted by the lovely Amy. And we have a quilt we want to share with you all:

quilt name: Ghastly triangles

quilt measurements: 50" by 70"

special techniques: using a 60 degree ruler for the 8" unfinished triangle patches

hand-quilted by myself: marit, on quilters dream request cotton batting

best category: favorite hand-quilted quilt / favorite throw quilt

It's hand-quilted with perle no16, using an embroidery needle. If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you may know that this summer was my summer of making triangle quilts.

Ghastly triangles is my 7th and last triangle quilt started this summer. They are all lap size and quilted by hand. Six of the are living with me. As you understand, I got quite carried away, having so much fun with these big patches on my quilt batting design wall... 

My challenge was to use fabric from stash. The last bigger piece of the Ghastly family ended up on the back:

Have fun visiting more great quilts on the blogger quilt festival! You will find lots of lovely quilts over here (kind of trick and treating from the comfort of your own home... don't you think?)

(p.s. if you would like to see more of my triangle quilts, you will find them by clicking on the triangle label under this post)

Thank you for stopping by!

in good company ...

This year Blogger Quilt Festival has added more fun to the festival by offering prizes in 15 different categories. Thank you Amy for all the good work you put together for all of us to enjoy the wonderful event! 

Can you believe it - I have been nominated in the category of hand quilting!!!!!! That's a lovely complement, and I am both happy and thankful for the nomination!

There's still time to cast your vote for the Viewers Choice quilts, and Amy has made it easy and fun to vote for your favorites

; )

please make a visit and be part of the jury!

my may finish - bloggers quilt festival 2012

Welcome to my blog, and please have a look around!

I have a newly finished quilt to share with you. It has been very rainy and wet in my neck of the woods for a long time now. Just in time for the quilt festival we are finally having a beautiful and sunny friday providing photo opportunities...

(my helpful quilt inspector, testing the quilt's softness?)

My hip to be square finished at 46" by 57". You may recognize Jolene's very popular design. Mine is hand quilted with black perle cotton on Quilters Dream Request Cotton batting and a very soft backing (Anna Maria Horners Little Folks voile in Saffron). Feeling bold, I chose a black binding for it.

You don't think there's anything strange in taping quilts to your house in plain view, do you?

Somehow that does feel a bit awkward... Well, I really wanted to share this with you all. 

Thank you, Amy, for organizing this lovely event! 

Wishing you a nice weekend, and hope there will be a chance for some happy stitching, along with the blog hopping,  too...

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Diagon Alley

It's fun time when Amy invites us all to take part in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. Welcome to all of you!

I want to share my recently finished "Diagon Alley". You may recognize this from one of Kaffe Fassets book ... I was lucky to see the original quilt at one of his lectures before the pattern was published. And I fell completely in love!

This is the biggest quilt I have attempted hand-quilting. With help from Anne Rønningen, I got it basted on thin cotton (Quilters Dream Request). Then I spent hours stitching with perle cotton. The quilt is soft and not too heavy. I am so pleased to have finished it. The size makes it a challenge to take a decent picture. Even my husbands long arms was struggling to hold this one!

Showing a pre-quilted picture.

And a picture of the finished top before quilting. Not sure if I will ever try hand-quilting another one this size. It finished at 80" * 85". So it's big enough to share with a friend...

Thank you for stopping by! Please enjoy more quilts from the Blogger Quilt Festival, and let yourself be inspired...

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bee friends

Hi! It's my birthday. We're gonna party...

And what better way to celebrate than joining the fun of Blogger Quilt Festival :: Spring 2011?

Tonight is also the grand finale of the Eurovision Song Contest 2011. All of Europe gather in front of their TVs to cheer on their favorite songs, enjoying the show and the pretty dresses...

So here is the quilt i want to share with you:

In 2010 I participated in the Eurovision Quilters bee. August was my month, and I received blocks from Belgium, Germany, Finland, Luxembourg, UK, Sweden, The Netherlands, France and Norway!

They are all so pretty in their best dresses!

It was both fun and challenging being part of the bee. Trying different techniques to meet each months challenge. Finding a theme and setting up guidelines for my month. I decided to plan on different block sizes and sash them to make them all come together in the end. And then I put up a tutorial on my blog on how to construct the girls. All the fabric was sent out for the bee members. The dresses are both Katie Jump Rope from Denyse Schmidt and Wee play by Sandy Klop.

My bee friends measures 48" * 65" and is quilted partly by machine and by hand. It has a soft and cosy flannell backing and uses Hobbs Heirloom batting ( 80% cotton / 20% polyester).

Can you see how they are all dressed up for a party?

I hope you enjoyed your visit. Please check out the bee friends tutorial in the sidebar of my blog if you like. And have fun visiting the rest of Bloggers Quilt Festival, too!

quilt festival - fall 2010

It's time for the very popular Bloggers Quilt Festival. Thank you so much Amy for hosting this event for the 4th time!

I want to share a quilt that I recently finished. It is a wall quilt, and it started out with some "blueberry fool blocks" that I received in a swap with my friend Clare. Lovely palette of blues...

I started playing with them, forming them into a medallion. Adding some solids and a star.

By then the top reminded me of a norwegian winter landscape: snow and crisp, blue shadows...

So, I added a phrase from a favorite norwegian singer, Anne Grete Preus (in my translation it will say something like: the sun sits low on the horizon, under the tall sky).

The letters are inspired by Tonya.

The quilt is long and narrow, 30" by 60", fitting for a wall hanging.

I had a lot of fun quilting by hand, creating different textures.

Sometimes its fun to start playing with some fabric and see where it takes you. Trusting yourself to create as you go... Trying not to put on a lot of pressure.

Thank you for your visit! And please, enjoy more beautiful and special quilts at the festival here.