Saturday 30 October 2010

Blogger's Quilt Festival

This is my first entry in the Bloggers Quilt Festival - which Amy has organised again this autumn.

I am entering the Authentic Quilt I made for my brother's 30th birthday in July this year.


I followed Dana from Old Red Barns Quilt Along several months after it was finished.  This is the first big quilt I have made and I learnt so much quilting it particuarly how much easier it is to quilt if you have basted well.


The female members in my family were a little disappointed that the first quilt I gave away was to my brother and warned me he may not appreciate it.  His reaction was so funny "You made it?  What with?".  When I said fabric he replied "But it looks like newspaper!".

Go check out the other amazing entries:

Amy's Creative Side - Blogger's Quilt Festival

17 comments:

  1. he he that's funny!
    Beautiful quilt! I'm impressed you could make something so pretty just out of newspaper ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  2. lovely - the binding is a triumph, i think :)

    ReplyDelete
  3. I am laughing my head off at that - I love love love this quilt and I love authentic and how simple you kept it - the perfect manly quilt!

    ReplyDelete
  4. This is a great quilt! I remember when you first posted about this. It's really lovely!

    ReplyDelete
  5. I really like this quilt! It is a great 'man' quilt and inspires me to try this color combo. Nice job!!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Great quilt! I love the color combination!

    ReplyDelete
  7. Fabulous quilt! Love the fabrics!

    Your brother is quite the comedian isn't he!

    ReplyDelete
  8. I love this quilt! Great job!

    ReplyDelete
  9. Your brother's response was too funny. Guys just don't get it! Beautiful job!

    xo -El

    ReplyDelete
  10. What a crisp modern quilt. I'll bet your brother did get it after all. Congrats on such great quilt- esp. for your first large one.
    Come see my 1890 antique schoolhouse quilt and
    black/white/pink scrappy miniature

    ReplyDelete
  11. A fun quilt indeed and your brother's response sounds like something a guy would say! Your choice of blocks for the fabric is great.

    ReplyDelete
  12. A lovely quilt, it's fabulous in Authentic. Love your brother's comment.

    ReplyDelete
  13. I hope your brother cherishes it! I love that fabric line too.

    ReplyDelete
  14. I'm working on this same quilt along right now as well, and mine is similar to yours as I'm doing it mostly in black & white with one strip of pink in each block. It's nice to see how yours turned out!

    ReplyDelete
  15. This is a lovely fabric and it works so well in this quilt design.
    Your quilt looks great.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Good quilt for a man, and gotta love the comment!

    ReplyDelete
  17. Oh my, upon reflection I can see why he says it looks like newsprint!!! Awesome and he probably calls it "Newspaper"...lol. The fabric is so great for the railfence pattern. Great quilt and I think it should be called Newsprint...lol after your brother. lol..

    hugz
    Pam

    ReplyDelete