Tuesday Treasure - Quilt Challenge

For this weeks Tuesday Treasure, I am revisiting my journey for:

A Yorkshire Dream

This was a quilt challange for the end of year 2011 Xmas Party at my quilting group. The challenge was to make a quilt that depicted your birthday.  The only criteria was to use the colour of my birthstone (either a lot or a little)

 

I was born in Yorkshire and wanted to make that part of my quilt. So an idea began to form in my head but I had no idea how to proceed so I thought I would start with a sky and I wanted to piece it so I cut 2.5" strips, then cross cut them into 2.5" strips and then sewed these into 9 patch squares.

 And before too long I had a piece of patchwork that would work well as a sky.
Everything was going as expected but without a pattern, I was unsure how to create the hills I had in mind. Next step was to google for a picture of hills that would suit my image.....

I think I found the right one and so now to add the hills to the picture....not sure if I used the best method for this but I just went with my instinct and it turned out ok.

 Adding a Jonquil by raw edge applique

And a fence and then comes the bit that I was dreading the most..............freemotion quilting!!! I was sure I would ruin it at this stage.

A close-up view of the raw edge applique of the fence.

These trees were a last addition but necessary to hide an oopsie....quilted with little pebbles and look great...so far so good!

the raw edge applique horses....just magical! what a clever sewing machine I have!

After I added the border, I thought it lacked some oomph, so I fm quilted some pebbles all the way around. My mum says this depicts the coal from Yorkshire. I never thought of that.

And here it is.  I got 3rd place for my little quilt and was really chuffed as this was my first ever quilt challenge entry and it has become a "Treasure" to me.

All the clues are here, wonder if you can decipher the month and year of my birth date?