A quilt for the Festival of Quilts

In my last post I said I was making a Quilt for the 'Festival of Quilts' and I'm happy to say that I have just finished making it - phew! What a relief!  The design was 'Reflecting Pools' and its from the Quilts in Sweden book which is one of my favourites.  Although a lot of the designs are by Kaffe this particular quilt is by Sally Davies.

 

So the fabric arived and the main metreage was on the 'Japanese Chrysanthemum' fabric which I had to 'fussy cut' to get 18 Chrysanthemums - this really started to gobble the fabric up and I still needed some very long borders.

 

 

So the Chrysanthemums were then log cabinned.

 

 

And I then started to work on the 3 x 4 blocks using Millefiore Blue and the Chrysanthemum fabric.

 

 

There was 9 of these....

 

 

Meanwhile, I was waiting for my new favourite fabric -Bekah - from Cotton Patch who supplied me with all the fabric.

 

 

 

Which I then had to make into 3x4 blocks with the Chrysanthemum fabric again - 8 of these.

 

 

 

So when they were finished I started to plot my Quilt and realised that my sitting room, or any room, was big enough for this.

 

 

 

Then I pieced it together and displayed it at school to take a photograph.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some close up pics of this gorgeous Quilt, I can truly say its exquisite it is so yummy I could eat it.  It's been sent back down to Cotton Patch for long arm quilting and I'm really looking forward to seeing it at The Festival of Quilts.