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Saturday, October 10, 2009

Blogger's Quilt Festival

Park City Girl is having a virtual Quilt Festival which is a lot of fun. Bloggers from across the world are posting pics of their favorite quilts for all of us to view and appreciate.
The Park City Girl, Amy, who's blog is here is hosting an online quilt show for those of us who can't get to Houston this week. Actually, she's hosting it for those who can get there too! It's not a competition. What you do is choose one of your quilts and show it and tell its story on your blog, put a link on her blog and that's all. Then you can follow all the links for an amazing on-line quilt show. Oh yes, and there are prizes too, which I think are won in a draw.

My favorite quilt of the year is Jacob's Train quilt that I made in May for my newest grandson, Jacob Scott. Since he is now enjoying the quilt, I don't have it to take more pictures. The quilt was made from a kit by Fons and Porter. It took 5 months to get the kit because it was on backorder month after month. I had almost given up on getting it when I finally received an email message telling me it had been sent. In the long run, it was worth waiting for!
I used machine applique to put the train pieces together, and there were lots of little pieces on each train car. The smoke coming from the engine stacks is small rickrack and the train tracks are a larger rickrack. I wish I had taken some close up photos of the individual train cars for you to see. Oh, well... I think if you click on the picture, it will open in a larger size so the details can be easily seen.
Now click on the bloggers quilt festival button in my sidebar and visit other blogs that are showing their quilts.

14 comments:

Unknown said...

That is super cute!

amy smart said...

What a wonderful quilt for a new grandson!

Zonnah said...

Very cool! My son started to cry when I left the picture. I might have to make him a train quilt :)

Heather said...

So very sweet--our little guy loves trains, so I have a soft spot.

Dolly said...

Oh, that's a precious quilt. I'm so glad our children keep giving us excuses to make more quilts !

Marika said...

Very beautiful duvet

Renee said...

what a great quilt - I love seeing quilts made for boys. All my little cousins are girls and I only really make girly things!

SewCalGal said...

Beautiful Quilt. Love the colors, love the fabrics, love the design. You are so very talented.

Thanks for sharing and for participating in the Bloggers Quilt Festival.

SewCalGal
www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

QuiltSue said...

Really great quilt. What an amazing amount of work with all those pieces.

Suzanne said...

very cute!
Congrats on winning one of the draws!

beth said...

adorable quilt! what a fun little boy quilt!

Dresden Quilter said...

It is really sweet! I can see why you wanted to wait for it.

Sara said...

OH! I saw this one in their baby quilt magazine and thought it was so cute! Job well done!

Diane said...

This is so sweet!