Blogger's Quilt Festival

Firstly thank you to Amy for hosting this wonderful event which brings all us quilt bloggers together. I am really excited to be part of this again and to spend happy hours looking at everyone else's quilts and reading their stories and finding new blogs to follow.

I have chosen to enter my Kaffe Fassett diagonal madness quilt into the festival because it was a lot of firsts for me.

It was my first full sized (approx 80" x 80") quilt.  It was also the first quilt of this size that I quilted myself.  It was the first quilt I made for someone outside of my household (my Mum).  And it was the first time I used Kaffe Fassett fabrics which I absolutely loved - to my surprise given that so much colour terrifies me.

I confess that, as I pieced it, I cringed with horror at the terrible colour mistakes Kaffe had made as he designed this quilt - orange next to brown and pink, purple and red - surely not.  But of course, once it was all done and hung from the climbing frame, you can see the quilt as a whole and all those colours look beautiful together.

And it also looks fabulous on the bed in the guest room at my parents house.  I pop and in take a little peep while I'm there although I don't stay long because I start to notice things I could have done better.  I think that's a failing most quilters have, we don't see the overall beauty of something we've made but hone in on the mistakes.  Anyway, the important thing about this quilt is that I made it for my Mum and she really loves it, which makes me feel pretty good.