My quilt entry.

Inspired by Kwiltmakr's post, this is the quilt I am entering in the Bloggers Quilt Festival 2009.

This quilt was made for a very special friend of mine Mill. She was moving to the US earlier this year and I wanted to make her something special that she could take with her and remember me by, as well as providing her new apartment with instant colour! I think I managed both with this quilt.

Each star is made from 1930's Repro fabric, with the plain colours being basic homespun fabrics. I had to have the quilt machine quilted as I just did not have the time to hand quilt it the way it needed to be quilted.

I was really happy with the result and the look on Mill's face was priceless when she unwrapped it!

If you want to enter one of your quilts, just visit: http://parkcitygirl.blogspot.com/

Sam xox

Camilla's quilt.

Oh you all have no idea how much I have been busting to show this quilt to you!

It may appear lately like I haven't been doing much quilting - it's a lie! Because Camilla reads this blog I was unable to post ANY of my progress on this quilt.

In February I decided to make a quilt for Camilla to take with her to the US to help make her appartment feel more like home.

I searched through my large collection of Australian Patchwork and Quilting magazine to find the perfect pattern. I came across this one, it is called Friendship Star and the quilt example in the book was made from coutry homespun fabrics, and the feature fabric was a mushroom brown. I changed that in my quilt to a bright yellow homespun, and complimented it with a variety of 1930's reproduction fabrics from my stash.

I love these fabrics as Camilla knows, and I also think you can't help but smile when you look at them - perfect when you are away from home!

So many nights were spent in secret making this quilt. I had it machine quilted by a lovely lady called Kay Brown at The Finishing Touch. Kay did an amazing job! It was the first time I have had a quilt machine quilted and I couldn't be happier with the result... I think I will do it again!

I had planned to finish it a week before the party, but the flu hit me bad, and I was still sewing the last bit of binding onto the quilt the night before the party!

It is also a relief to finally give it to Mill and tell her what I had been up to, as over the last few months I have been going to craft night with no evidence of progress on my vintage quilt - now she knows what I have been spending all my quilting time on! :-)

Here are some photos of the quilts journey...

And this is Mill with her quilt and pillow. Michelle knitted this pillow for Mill to take with her. She did such a great job on it! Camilla only taught Michelle to knit in January of this year, so I think this is an amazing job considering she has only been knitting for less than 6 months!

Again, every craft night Mill could not work out why the scarf Michelle was working on was just not growing!

Sam xox