My Glitter quilt is finished! And it won a prize in our guild's exhibition.
Yes, I won Best Hand Pieced and I was thrilled. Glitter is designed by Jen Kingwell from Australia. I started my Glitter quilt in a hand piecing class with Jen Kingwell at the Christchurch Symposium in October 2017. I did promise Jen that it would be finished by October 2019, and the top was finished by then, but I didn't start hand quilting it until January 2020.
Now it's finished, and it will look just right on our bed. I chose the greens and grey colours to match the gorgeous wallpaper in our bedroom.
Here's photo taken outside in natural daylight.
I used the acrylic templates from Amitie Textiles to hand piece my quilt. If you haven't tried hand piecing yet, you might like to watch my videos on the Hand Piecing tab at the top of my blog. I love the relaxing nature of hand piecing, and the accuracy that can be achieved with it.
I used Aurifil 50wt shade 2605 for all the hand piecing because it blends well with everything.
Turning the seams is easy with hand piecing.
The back view
I chose wool batting and quilted my Glitter quilt with Aurifil 12wt and 28wt shade 2615. I use 12wt for the visible stitches, and 28wt in the ditch.
So my Glitter quilt is finished! And I love it. I'm so pleased it finally got to hang in an exhibition.
I'm just writing this very brief blog post to let you know that won some awards at the Capital Quilters show this weekend.
First up is my "Glitter in Green" quilt - it won Best Hand Pieced quilt. I was thrilled because I do love this quilt. I'll do a proper blog post soon with ALL the details, but suffice to say it's a wonderful pattern by Jen Kingwell.
Next is my "We Built This City" quilt and it won a Merit in the Build It Up challenge, and also the Joanne Johnson Colour Award. This quilt was made with some of the blocks from the Marshal Mystery Quilt designed by Jen Kingwell.
I met so many lovely quilters in both Taupo and Wellington this weekend. Thank you for supporting our quilt shows. And for those in countries who still have restrictions - we certainly do appreciate how lucky we are.
Strangely that reminds me of this famous NZ song
How many famous faces can you spot in the video?
I'll be back with more photos soon, but I'm off to Auckland tomorrow morning, so I have to go and pack again now.
Good news - we're back at COVID Level 1 (our lowest level) and our quilt show is going ahead next weekend.
I'm really looking forward to seeing my Glitter quilt hanging, and then getting to take it home again. Although I finished Glitter back in April 2020, I haven't used it on our bed yet, or shared it on social media. It was to be my main entry in the QuiltNSW Sydney Quilt Show, but that got pushed back twice, and is now cancelled for 2020. Our own shown in Wellington has been pushed back once, but we're really hopeful it can go ahead next weekend.
Strangely enough when I accepted the 3-4 October dates for our postponement, I totally forgot that I had booked another little holiday. So I won't be there for the setup day on Friday (how convenient!) or Saturday. Instead I'll be visiting the Taupo Quiltmakers' and Aotearoa Quilters' exhibitions in Taupo on Friday.
It will be nice to see how other guilds run their exhibitions, and to meet other quilters from around New Zealand.
Here's our new poster for our Capital Quilters exhibition. If you live in NZ I hope to see you there on Sunday. I expect to be there most of the day. We have four great merchants lined up:
Stitchbird Fabrics
Quilters' Lane
Made Marion Crafts
Yarn Therapy.
I think we're all looking forward to visiting the merchants. I've certainly had lots of questions about them. As for the quilts, you can follow Capital Quilters on Instagram or Facebook. There will be plenty of photos shared there during the weekend.
Now it's time for the Peacock Party. Feel free to link up a recent blog post below:
