Once again, we have a chance to enter a quilt in a show....a fun, online show with no judging and no "quilt police"...just a chance to have fun by showing a favorite of our own and seeing the favorites of other bloggers. Click HERE to find out how to enter and maybe win some great prizes for participating! Thanks, Amy, for doing this for us again!
Here is my entry. This quilt was a "mystery quilt" done with a small group of neighborhood gals. The surprising twist to this one was....after a few months of us preparing all the various parts of the quilt (9 patches, HST's, etc.), we were then told there was NO set patttern for our quilt layout for us to follow! We had to take what we had sewn together over the months and turn it into whatever pattern we wanted! We were all fairly new quilters and that was a daunting task for us!!! This was what I came up with and I do like it a lot. It was then long-armed by a gal in our quilt guild, Sharon, and she did a very good job with it. (This was the first quilt I sent out to be long-armed.)
35 comments:
Great quilt Pat. I love that you all had to come up with your own layouts, it ended up making them all unique.
Crispy
I love your quilt and your twist on the 'no layout pattern'.
Fantastic!!
Wow Pat this is an amazing quilt!
Beautiful, Pat!
Wow, that would have been an interesting assignment for new quilters but your design is great. It reminds me of designs in Turkish Kilim rugs. Google it and you will see the similarities. I'm so preoccupied by this itchy rash that I forgot to post my quilt for Amy's festival. I'll do that in a bit and get on track with that.
i like this....so very nice...you did great, as usual.
We had a challenge like that in our quilt guild in TN - and they all came out looking very different!
Like your quilt...
it turned out great! big project for new quilters!
mystery quilts intrigue me. I haven't done one yet. For me it would be difficult to choose colors and fabrics based on a design I've never seen...
You must have a knack, because yours is wonderful!
What a challenge that must have been. You did a wonderful job on it.
Great layout, Pat! I love doing mystery quilts because I love being surprised, so I think I might have been disappointed if I did your quilt and was told to choose the finished layout for myself. Now that I think about it, that would have been the ultimate surprise!
Good job on the mystery.
Sandra Starley
Come see my new star quilt & its 1890 cheddar star antique original
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Hi Pat:
That's a beautiful quilt. Is it okay to say that to me it has the look of native American blankets?
I've been catching up on reading posts, and I do hope you get a fabric cutter. I find the cutting boring as well, except when I do it I find I get to "know" my fabric, if you get what I mean. Also, love your new fabric, especially the Christmas ones.
I think you came up with a great layout for it.
It's lovely. You did a great job. But I think I would have been a bit scared by the challenge, too. I need instructions!
Pat, That sure is a lovely quilt. I really like the fabrics in it. You sure did a nice job, and thank you for sharing. Good luck, my dear. Happy Quilting!
Those colors are absolutely yummy. You did well on the placement of the blocks. Nice entry choice!
I love seeing mystery quilts. I like what you did with the layout.
It turned out great...great work and big project for new quilters!
Well done.
Julia ♥
Pat, thanks for sharing your beautiful quilt!! Great job on the layout :)
SheilaC
It did come out nice after the mystery surprise.
Wow. I love this quilt. It is beautiful. You are very good!
Wow - that is wonderful!! Especially since you had no layout to follow - I'm in awe!
Pat your quilt is beautiful and looks complicated...Love the colors!!
You did well with the layout there Pat! Its great!
What an awesome Mystery! It would be interesting to see what the other gals came up with! 8-)
Hi Pat! I love your quilt of course...the green and reads and wonderful together. Your hanger is pretty!
What a fun idea! Now me, I'm thinking I would take all these blocks and redraw them in EQ and see what other layouts I could come up with. This is a fantastic one. How long did it take you to decide on it. Did you use up all your blocks?
What a creative challenge Pat - and you took it and ran with it! The quilt turned out beautiful!
very pretty!
Wow talk about being thrown into the deep end! But you survived and have a lovely quilt to show for it.
Looks like great work!
I love that you all had to come up with your own layouts
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That is so cool that y'all had to come up with your own layouts.
Randi
http://DivaBuzz.designing-diva.com
absolutely love this quilt--love how you've used the yellow fabric as accents and assume you used it to pick the other fabrics--really beautiful. layout is great. story was a fun one. nice you have a group of quilting friends
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