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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Blogger's Quilt Festival (Autumn 2009)

So Ends A Fair Day

This is "So Ends A Fair Day", a mini quilt I made in January 2009. I made it to try to break my way out of a quilting rut I was in! It was so much fun to make, too!

I took a 9" x 12" piece of fusible web, and cut the pieces with my rotary cutter! I knew I wanted to make a sunset, and free cut the pieces to give me what I needed. Next, I dug into my batik stash and pulled out pieces I thought would work, fused the web to them, cut them out and re-assembled the piece of fusible web onto a muslin background with the batiks now attached. Then I covered every seam with fusbile bias tape. I then layered and basted it. Sewing the bias down became the quilting, too!

This quilt really helped me branch away from the "every quilt must have a million pieces" rule, and I had SO much fun making it :)

12 comments:

  1. I love this quilt! It's so stunning!

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  2. Beautiful Quilt. I also love the name of your blog. I just started my quilting blog and spent some time trying to think of a name. I love sunflowers.

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  3. This is so pretty and original...I like the simplicity.

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  4. Lovely design. Love the use of fusible bias tape to help with the quilting design.

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  5. Beautiful. Such soothing lines. Well done.

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  6. How did I miss seeing this one the first time ...I assume you posted about it before? It's just fabulous, Jennie!

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  7. I really love your mini! The colors are fantastic. Cannot wait to try this method. Well done.

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  8. You did good, girl.......I need to see if I have a more adventurous side. That's a gorgeous piece of work !

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  9. Great design, colors, & fabric. Just delightful! You did a great job.

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

    SewCalGal
    www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

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  10. So simple, but so stunning. I will have to remember this and try it out.

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