WoooHooo! I won ribbons at the local quilt show!

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04-15-2013, 10:30 AM

#131

nananurse

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Well deserved!! Your quilt is beautiful!!

04-15-2013, 10:30 AM

#132

hudgoddess

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Wow! I want to quilt feathers like that when I grow up! Awesome quilt! Congratulations on the well deserved ribbons!

04-15-2013, 10:57 AM

#133

laurlync

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Quote:

Originally Posted by koko

This quilt is absolutely stunning...were the flying geese paper pieced? Those points are perfect! Well deserved honors for sure!

Thank you all for the wonderful comments.

koko, the flying geese were made using the second method here: http://www.connectingthreads.com/tut...hods__D15.html. It makes 4 geese at a time and goes fairly quickly with no wasted triangles. I made them slightly oversized and trimmed EACH AND EVERY ONE! And I did have a small pile of "rejects" that I will use in a non-show quilt of some sort.

04-15-2013, 11:12 AM

#134

laurlync

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Originally Posted by vhayes

I saw this quilt Saturday. It is even more beautiful up close. I have the pattern and now I am going to try it for sure.

Thanks, vhayes. I was there Saturday as well. We probably saw each other and just didn't realize it! LOL

The quilt wasn't hard to do. As I mentioned above, I used the 4-at-a-time method to make the flying geese. Also, I made plastic templates for the odd shaped triangles, cut my background fabric in strips wide enough for the shapes, used a pencil to lightly trace around the plastic on the back on one fabric strip, then stacked several strips and used my ruler and rotary cutter to cut multiples at one time.

One change I made was to the flying geese in the border. I made them like the geese in the body of the quilt instead of "negative" geese. It really is a fun quilt to make and goes quickly because the star blocks are so large.

04-15-2013, 11:15 AM

#135

laurlync

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Originally Posted by kathymarie

Well of course you won....I'd think something was wrong and the show was "fixed" if you didn't!

.....congratulations...it's a beautiful quilt. Every aspect is lovely from piecing, to colors to the quilting. It's really inspiring....and oh how I wish I could copy it before July 4th this year.....

You could do it, kathymarie. I just started it in mid-January and I work full-time!

04-15-2013, 01:23 PM

#136

lotus63000

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Congratulation!!!! your quilt sooo gorgeous!!!

04-15-2013, 01:25 PM

#137

milikaa1

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Congratulations! Your quilt is beautiful, I am so happy you won a ribbon.

04-15-2013, 02:00 PM

#138

caspharm

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Congratulations! Wonderful quilt! Great quilting.

04-15-2013, 03:19 PM

#139

MargeD

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Congratulations - they knew a good thing when they saw it. It's a gorgeous quilt and I think you have mastered feather stitches. Beautiful and congratulations again. You should be very proud of your efforts.