Saturday, May 19, 2012

Blogger's Quilt Festival-Julie

For my entry into the Spring Blogger's Quilt Festival, I decided to pick my most recent favorite finish, Little Faces. 

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If you are a regular around here then you know all about this quilt and have seen many many pictures of it in progress and then when it was finally finished.

Little Faces was a collaboration of 12 different very talented women, the ladies of the 12 Month Quilting Bee. This bee was the very first I ever joined and was so much fun to be a part of. 

My quilt doesn't have a meaningful story behind it like Bree's does. Her quilts always have wonderful tales to tell, don't they? Mine was just something fun. I can't take full credit for the design, I saw the original design here. I knew it would be great for a bee quilt!


The girls in the bee really went above and beyond with these houses. Many of them volunteered to make two for me, so when it was all done I only had to make three to finish it off.


Check out some of the fun, original ideas. They made the house match the little person!

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I asked each of the ladies to make a signature block for me, and then I pieced them around the extra block and put it on the back. 

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The other fabrics of the backing are what was left of the fabrics from the front. If you look closely you can see that the blue areas aren't the same fabrics throughout. I was trying really hard to not have to order any more of the blue fabrics and I was able to squeeze out just what I needed, which was no small feat considering this quilt ended up a twin size!

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I had a really hard time deciding on whether I should add a thin border of the blue to help break up the busy-ness of the sashing and the colorful binding. Bree suggested adding a flange and it was the perfect solution.

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I cut the pezzy print on the bias, the first time I'd ever made bias binding. I LOVE how it makes it look like it's wrapping around the quilt. I also like that you can see all of the colors of the print this way. I would have lost that had I cut the fabric on the straight of grain.

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I found this fun quilting pattern at The Free Motion Quilting Project website. I agonized over how to quilt this one for probably a month or so. I finally remembered that site and zeroed in on this one straight away, it's the perfect fit I think.

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This was SUCH a fun quilt to make, I couldn't have done it without the help of the awesome ladies of the 12 Month Quilting Bee: Erin, MelissaKaren, Cassey, Amanda, Alix, Stephanie, Emily, Laura, Carrie and Leanne.

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21 comments:

Sandy said...

What a fun quilt! It is so bright and cheerful! The backing is perfect!

CitricSugar said...

How fun! I love the quilting...

Leanne said...

This quilt is wonderful, and the quilting you chose is perfect. It was so nice to be a part of this project.

Lynne said...

It is, indeed, a fun quilt. What a great way to treasure all the love and effort of your online friends.

Little Island Quilting said...

Completely and utterly love this quilt.

Karen said...

So dang cute! Love, love it!

Al said...

i love this quilt more every time I see it!

Mom said...

Great houses!

Check out my blog if you can...

Margaret Gunn
www.quiltsoflove.blogspot.com

Spontaneous Threads said...

I've seen your "done" picture on Flickr but the story makes the quilt. It's lovely Julie!!!

Andrea said...

lovely and very funny!!

Cynthia said...

Love the fabrics and the design! Great quilt!

LeslieUnfinished said...

This is so fun! super cute!

Melinda said...

I just love this quilt. So stinking cute! And I love that you have everyone's signatures on the back. That just gives it so much extra meaning!

Marci Girl said...

Such a great and fun quilt Julie! So special those bee quilts end up being!

Heidi Grohs said...

Another STUNNING quilt!!!!!!

Lonci said...

A really like your quilt and fabulous:)))

harleywife57/ Mickey White said...

This is just an awesome quilt !

Deborah said...

What an amazing quilt! I love it!

Melinda said...

I love this quilt - what imagination went into it.

straythreads said...

great house and love the faces in all the windows
Ann

Angie in SoCal said...

I love house quilts and yours is extra speical! I'm late in getting to all the quilts, but yours caught my eye - thanks for sharing!

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