Blogger's Quilt Festival 2010

I just read that yesterday marked the start of a wonderful on-line quilt festival!  I remember seeing blogs participating in this last year, but last year at this time, I didn't have a blog - or a quilt to enter!  So, this year I'm excited to get to share one of my quilts!  Yay!!

This is the quilt I made for my friend Laura's bridal shower.  (I shared this quilt already here, but Amy said it's ok to share an already previously shared quilt.)  I'll admit, I fell in love with this quilt when it was done and had a really hard time actually giving it away.  But, she's told me how she likes to use it, so I'm happy it's being loved!

This was the 4th quilt I ever made (the 3rd in recent times).  I had fallen in love with the Alexander Henry Starling fabric in a quilt made by Elizabeth from Oh, Fransson!  So I used the different birds as centers of some of the squares and put coordinating fabrics around them.

I didn't follow a pattern in making the quilt.  I had seen many similar quilts created by other quilters and just choose a center square size myself and decided how wide of a border I wanted - and how much sashing to add.  And...ta da!  A quilt was made!

As I said, this was my 4th ever quilt - and I also wanted to try something else I had seen others do - a pieced back!  I think I succeeded - and do love the back too!

I learned a lot about doing "quilt math" with making this quilt without a pattern!  There are a few things I would do differently, but I still love this quilt (and hope to make a similar one for myself one day)!

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