This is my first
Bloggers Quilt Festival and I have to say I am SUPER excited!! I have decided to enter my Retro Flower quilt. It has been a really hard quilt for me to do. I just started to quilt in January and this bad boy was a super tricky pattern for me. You can see what I've been up to
HERE. I quilted this myself on my Pfaff home sewing machine. He's a little guy, but he's pretty tough :) This quilt is a very comfy lap quilt coming in at 59"x72".
I am entry #405
The fabrics for the quilt came about in a round about way. I found a kit at a local quilt store that I just LOVED but didn't buy because it was expensive and I didn't like the pattern very much :( One day I was in the quilt store and the AWESOME kit was on sale for 40% off. I bought it and ran. The colors were SO fun and spectacular. I held onto it until I decided to do the Retro Flower quilt along. I knew the fabrics would be PERFECT!
I had originally planned to use white for the background, but just didn't like it. I am not sure why I decided to try grey, but I am very happy with the choice :) To me, the grey represents life and it's trials. We have so many things that could get us down and that are SO hard! The flowers and their cheery colors represent the happiness and joy that we have to choose to focus on in our lives. We could be down and unhappy every day, but we can choose to see the joy and be the bright shiny colors in our lives and in the lives of others.
This weekend I went to a quilt retreat at the American Fork Presbyterian church. They graciously allowed me to photograph my quilt in their chapel. If it looks familiar, this is the chapel and church used in the original Footloose movie :)
I have to say finishing this quilt is a HUGE relief!
Late addition... I forgot to get a shot... or three... of the back, so I ran out Sunday morning and shot some :)
I have to say, I really love these pink birds :)
This bad boy is also linked up with Fabric Addict. Can I get a
Whoop Whoop?
Beautiful~ I love it. Coral and gray, looks great together. Great Arch pics. Thanks for sharing. Think I'll pin you to may favorites.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. I'm so glad you chose the grey instead! I've been meaning to make one of these and you've rekindled my urge...
ReplyDeletethis is gorgeous! I love the pink popping off the grey , altho I have to say I actually love grey, but I do like your analogy ;-)
ReplyDeletegorgeous! The grey really makes the flowers pop!
ReplyDeleteI love your retro flowers ... perfect colour combo !!
ReplyDeleteLove that you have used the grey for the background. It's beautiful.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is just so beautiful. You're right that the fabrics are perfect. Also love where you took the pictures! That was quite the movie!
ReplyDeleteI am in love with the color combination you used! Wow! Gorgeous quilt in a gorgeous church!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt, and what an accomplishment!! I've been eyeing this pattern for a while, and this may be the one that kicks me off the fence! I love gray for a background - I find that it does more for colors than white, and it's certainly more user friendly! Congratulations on your finish!! Whoop whoop!!
ReplyDeleteA tricky design for a first quilt indeed. I love the colors and the dark background.You are so right about the "light" and "dark" of our lives.
ReplyDeleteLove this pattern! You did a wonderful job!
ReplyDeleteI love the gray as a background. It goes so well with the brighter colors of the flowers. You did great! Congratulations!!
ReplyDeleteit's so pretty. I love the binding - what did you back it with?
ReplyDeleteThank you! I added pis of the backing just for you :)
DeleteThis is a great quilt. You did a super job and the grey is perfect. Love the pictures in the chapel. I/m loving your blog too.
ReplyDeletebeautiful job - I can see nothing to indicate you had any issues putting this together. Love the colour choice, and love those pictures taken in the chapel.
ReplyDeleteLove it!
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Margaret Gunn
www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com
I like your quilt a lot. The gray background keeps it from being ordinary.
ReplyDeleteOh I love this pattern and I love it even more with the gray background! I've never seen that before and it's an interesting take.
ReplyDeleteWonderful story and quilt. The grey does let the happiness of the flowers really blossom. Now I have the music stuck in my head from Footloose!
ReplyDeleteSo excited to see your quilt finished. I was afraid those curves might get the best of you! It is plain to see you tackled them like a pro. It is just beautiful! Way to go & bring it to show-n-tell at MQG in June. p.s. We all missed you on Sat.:)
ReplyDeleteI missed y'all too :( I had so many things that overlapped that I just had to choose one and stick with it. I cant wait to see you guys next month :)
DeleteWonderful colors, beautiful:))
ReplyDeleteYes, you did a great job. Lots of happy energy coming through your posting! I love that quilting keeps you from eating! It's never stopped me! lol!! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like a labor of love! And it is totally gorgeous!!! That grey background just makes those happy prints pop! Someday, I'm going to have to make one of these quilts... it is such a fun design! Thanks so much for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, you can! You get my WHOOP WHOOP :) I missed you! And one of your blogposts disappeared. It's in my google feed, but when I click to leave a comment it brings me here and says that it can't be found... bummer!
ReplyDeleteLovely!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt it gorgeous! The grey is perfect. And I love the Footloose church - classic! The first time my Mum ever embarrassed me was watching the Footloose movie at the cinema. I was ten, and in the scene where Lori Singer loses it and starts bashing her boyfriend's truck with a baseball bat, my Mum made this horendous noise somewhere between a hoot and a snort. At ten I thought this was to die embarrrassing. Now, I'd probably let out a similar snort.
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