Bloggers’ Quilt Festival :: Spring 2011

I'm so excited to join the Bloggers' Quilt Festival. What a great idea! Thank you, Amy, for bringing us together.



I decided to share the Sunshine and Candy quilt I finished recently. I'm a new quilter, and this is only my second full size quilt. I made it for my lovely 2 years old grandson.

I got the inspiration of the quilt from a tutorial by Kathie of Sew Kathie Did (thank you, Kathie, for this great tutorial!), and I fell in love with the endless possibilities of play with value and color.

I got introduced to quilting back in the 90s in Los Angeles. I loved the fabrics, color and creativity, but managed to do very little, and abandoned quilting entirely when we went back to Israel in 1994. Since I started quilting seriously a few months ago I saw all these bright beautiful fabrics, so different from my old stash, and decided that this quilt will be colorful and bright as well. I tried to used many boys' fabrics, some new and some from my old stash.



I pulled out many fabrics, divided them to light, medium and dark, and made half triangles. Arranging the blocks on the design wall was great fun, I enjoyed it immenesly.

The back is also pieced. I used “Marbleous” by Robert Kaufman for the background, and added some of the leftover blocks. I used cotton batting, very soft and supple, gives the quilt a wonderful drape. I kept the quilting minimal, just straight lines along the big dark and light diamonds.




The binding is "its a hoot" eggs in marshmallow cherry by MoMo for Moda.
All together I used more than 40 different fabrics.

My grandson loves the quilt. He plays "I spy" with the different pictures on the fabrics, great fun for all.

It was a great pleasure working on this quilt. I loved organizing the HTS on the design wall, it really gave me joy seeing the quilt taking shape, just looking at my work made me happy. I love this quilt. Thanks to you wonderful quilters sharing your work and giving me so much inspiration, and sepacial thanks again to Kathie. Thank you Amy for the opportunity to share my quilt with this great community, here is the link:

Noga