I was featured!

I'm so honored and thrilled! Beth of Smazoochie wrote about my quilt Homage to Mondrian in her post "I LOVE these quilts!". Beth chose few quilts inspired by painters, and she reviews them very cleverly and with deep perceptive. I love the other two quilts. You can see them in this very interesting post here.



This quilt is only my second work. I was a new quilter and blogger. I was overwhelmed with the kind of attention this quilt got. I love art, I love modern art and abstract art and you can see that I love Mondrian. This quilt is now hanging in my son's living room and I'm so proud that he loves it at well.

Go and visit Beth's blog. Beth is an excellent writer and a great quilter. It's always a pleasure to read her posts, whether its about quilting or about traveling through Kansas. Thanks so much, Beth, for featuring my quilt!

Noga

Pretty in Pink - Finished!

At last i finished Pretty in Pink, it's quilted and binded, I only need to applique the label with the name at the back. Baby G. is already 2 months old, and she has a new cousin, baby E. who is also waiting for a quilt, so it's time I continue working!




This quilt is made of my pink stash, some "it's a Hoot" for Moda, and some Ann Kelle for Robert Kaufman. Some of the fabrics are from my collection.




The backing is a sheet from Ikea. I bought few of their children's sheets, they have lovely prints, wash very well, and are very soft and easy to work with.


For the binding is I used one of the pink striped fabrics from the quilt.


The quilt is 91 x 93 cm, 36 x 37 inch. I quilted it minimally - straight lines through the colored squares.


It's very girly, and I'm very happy with the result. This is the first girly quilt I ever made!




I'm linking to Fabric Tuesday at Quiltstory and to Quilt Summer Fair at Gen X Quilters.

First place! Thanks and a giveaway

My quilt Sunshine and Candy got first place in Quilts for Little Boys contest at the Quilting Gallery blog! Thank you so much for voting for this quilt! I always loved this quilt, and I made it with great joy, but it's very heartwarming to see that other quilters like it as well. Thank you Michele, for organizing this contest!

As a note of my appreciation I decided to have a giveaway, I'll post about it in the next post, stay tuned!

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