Bloggers' Quilt Festival

This week I have spent a good deal of time browsing through all of the beautiful quilts that are on display at The Bloggers' Quilt Festival. I just wrote a post on this quilt, but I am going to answer a few questions that they ask about my quilt. You all need to head over there and see over 400 beautiful quilts!

My quilt that I chose to share is my Yo-Yo Flowers quilt. I am in love with this quilt, it could be because it is the latest one that I have finished, or that it is just so beautiful! Last fall when my sister was visiting she was showing me a few free quilt patterns and I just fell in love with the one for this quilt. I scoured my stash and not surprisingly I had the fabric to make this! So I got started. I got everything cut and then sewn together.

 

I took 4 squares of fabric and sewed them together to cut the circles for the yo-yo flowers. I had never seen these flowers before, and after a couple of you Tube videos I had then down. But for some reason I just was not feeling the quilt any more. So it sat for about 6 months.

But then I had this thought about custom dying some rick rack for the stems, and the rest is history. I went from not doing anything on this quilt to finishing it within the month. I tried to quilt it differently than all of my other ones. I did a squiggle next to the stems, and then an all over loop pattern for next to the flowers and then a simple all over pattern on the edges. I was a little bit worried how it would turn out, because I usually just do an all over pattern, but it turned out so nice and I am very happy with how it turned out.

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