Blogger’s Quilt Festival

Festival will run May 17th – May 31 2013

Amy's Creative Side is hosting the Blogger's Quilt Festival where we have the opportunity to share quilts we have made and be inspired by all all the great quilts entered.

Each person can enter up to 2 quilts and there are multiplw categories.

Once the quilts ore linked then they will be nominated on then voted on.

It would be nice if you voted on mine.

I have decided to enter my wall quilt I recently finished using Anita Goodesign's Roosters and project design.

I worked up all the pieces in the hoop and basically did a 9 patch.

Then I chose 4 of the Roosters and embroidered them onto the 9 patches.

I then had 4 quarters that I sewed together.

And I decided to add a piping around the edge.

This turned out so nice - It was such a good design from Anita Goodesign.
It was quilted in the hoop and worked out to be about 36" square.

I will be entering it on the Blogger's Quilt Festival.

It would be great for this wall hanging to win.
Mine is in the wall hanging category on Blogger's Quilt Festival

Go vote for your favorite.

Go to the Wall Hanging Quilts page to nominate and vote

ME Blog Hop Winners

Today is the day to announce the ME Blog Hop winners.

But first I'd like the thank IHAN (I Have A Notion) and SewCalGal for hosting this event.

By the looks of all the blogs that participated it looks like it was enjoyed by all.

As a personal thank you to these 2 ladies I have made each one a Rooster dish towel.

This one will go to IHAN

and this one will go to SewCalGal.

THANK YOU LADIES

and thank you Anita Goodesign  for such lovely designs.

 Now for the winners

Chosen by Random Number Generator

#34 wins one of Anita Goodesign Special Edition Collections

cntryways said...

Just loved what you did with the chicken designs. Gives me so great ideas for my sister who has chickens in her kitchen.

March 20, 2013 at 3:54 PM

#56 wins the rooster dish towel (last picture shown above)

Grandma Margie's Family said...

Loved your demo. The tip about changing the needle was very helpful, Thanks

March 21, 2013 at 9:39 AM

I will be sending an email to the lucky winners

Thank you for visiting my blog

IHAN Machine Embroidery Blog Hop - DAY 3

Monday , March 18th

Kelly - I Have A Notion
SewCalGal

Tues, March 19th

Cindy - Sew Cindy
Trish - AllThingsCrafty

Wed., March 20th

Marjorie's Quilting Bee
Margaret - The Average Quilter

Thurs., March 21st

Rebecca Grace - Cheeky Cognoscenti

Fri., March 22nd

Gene Black - Alabama Artist
SewCalGal

I HAVE A NOTION is  hosting a Machine Embroidery Blog Hop and today is my day to show what I've done.

Our sponsor is Anita Goodesign.

I just love everything Anita Goodesign designs and it was really difficult to pick just one design

I finally narrowed it down and picked the Rooster design.

I couldn't believe how realistic the designs were.

So the minute I received them I had to try one out.

I thought about doing some dish towels, maybe cutrains or even a quilt for my part of the hop.

But when I saw the project that Anita had included with the design I knew that was what I wanted to do. What better way to display the awesome Roosters. 

I downloaded the pdf file and it gave step by step instructions.

I probably could have just copied the pictures but I took my own.

I will try and make this brief so you don't have to spend all day reading.

1st I hooped my No Show Mesh and muslin and the design stitched out the placement.

I placed my warm and natural (cut to size) on the placement and then placed the fabric.

The design then stitched over the placement line and I was ready to go.

This is the beginning of one of the designs.

I used a topper on the Roosters and Fleur des Leis

I then trimmed up all the pieces and layed them out

Even laying them out in the right order I still managed to sew two together the wrong way.
I sewed this into the 4 quarters (basically 4 nine patches)

Then I used some Hoop Magic and placed the nine patch using the brown and white pieces as center. 

Then I did all 4 Roosters 

I sewed two quarters together. 

Then the 2 halves. 

The pdf said to quilt it by the squares and using more batting was optional.

Well I opted for more batting (probably would have looked better without) and I also outlined around the Rooster with nylon thread. 

I also used piping for the 1st time (probably not a good time to try something new)

All the step by step instructions come with the design.

I have really enjoyed being a part of the IHAN Machine Embroidery Blog Hop and having a chance to do one of Anita Goodesign's designs.

Some good tips:

1. Always use a topper.

2. Use Hoop Magic (or similar) when you don't want to hoop or can't hoop.

3. Change your needle when the threads start to loop above the design.

For a chance to win one Anita Goodesign Special Edition Collections  leave a comment on this post by March 24 and a winner will be selected by random drawing and announced on March 25.
For a second winner as a Thanks for putting up with this long blog entry and for your patience I will give away the dish towel (shown at the begining) on Sunday, March 24