Blogger' Quilt Festival

Amy has created this virtual quilt show to coincide with Quilt Market in the spring and fall of each year.  For those of us unable to go to Quilt Market, it gives us a wonderful opportunity to share and be inspired by other's quilts.  I encourage you to hop over to Amy's site and submit a quilt of your own, and then make sure you take a look all all the incredible quilts that are linked!  Select this link,

 Directions to my Heart was made for my husband because the dog ate his other quilt. That's right, for some crazy reason the dogs loved to chew on his quilt.  I had repaired it twice, but the third time I was done and the old quilt was given to the dogs. Fingers crossed, they haven't chewed on a quilt since I gave them the old one. But on to the new quilt.  This is one that is partially my design.  I took an EQ7 quilt and modified it.  I do want to start designing my own quilts some day, but this was about as close as I could get for now.  It was in electronic form (on the computer only) for about six months.   I actually thought it was going to be too hard and I wouldn't be able to complete it.  But one day something stirred in me and suddenly I was brave, I can do this!!!  So we went shopping for fabric.   My husband picked the fabrics, I had veto power but only had to use them once.

I learned on this project that a bias tape covers mistakes wonderfully!!  on the radiant beauties, that small circle at the corner of the block was just a bit to much for me.  The small curved seams weren't working, ugh what a mess.  So I appliqued the small red circles on.  But when it came time to sew the blocks together, again I was having trouble matching the seams.  So I simply took my 1/4 inch bias tape maker, made some orange bias tape, sewing it on and problem solved!!!  There's more than one way to get things done.  Here's a picture of the quilting.  I tried not to get too heavy in the quilting, mostly SITD.  On the blue I tried to add a pattern that went with the rest of the quilt.

If  you are interested the pattern in EQ7 format and in PDF for those that don't have EQ7 is available here  .   This was the first time that I ever put a pattern together so lots of learning going on.