This quilt is my own original design, made completely from 1"octagons and 1" squares. I used Tula Pink fabrics for the blocks, and Kaffe Fassett on the border.
If you've been following my blog for a while, and think it looks familiar, that will be because I entered it in the New Zealand Quilt Symposium last year. You can read all the details about it here.
My prizes were:
$300 worth of fabric from Lloyd Curzon Textiles
$250 voucher for AccuQuilt Australia
Thank you very much to all the very generous sponsors of the show. I flew back to New Zealand with a fat quarter bundle, two jelly rolls and three AccuQuilt dies in my suitcase! It was just under the luggage allowance.
I love how this close up photo shows the hand quilting sinking into the wool batting. I used Aurifil 12wt on this quilt and am very pleased with the result.
I'm all enthused for next year's show now, and was thinking about what I will enter before I'd even left Sydney. Both of my winning quilts have been English Paper Pieced and hand quilted. I think I should stick with what I know best.
Last year I won the Amateur Encouragement Award for my la passacaglia quilt:
2017 |
and this year I won second place in my category.
2018 |
I think it's time to finish my Ballet with Kaffe quilt designed by Willyne Hammerstein.
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