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Tuesday 20 March 2012

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?


9 comments:

  1. Such a wonderful quilt. You are so clever and talented.

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  2. Well I can't figure out your exact birthdate but the quilt is wonderful!

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  3. Well I am thinking your birth stone might be aquamarine or sapphire and daffodils and daisies....hhmm spring. March or September????
    Your quilt is really lovely. You are so clever.

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    1. On the right track Michelle. My birthstone is aquamarine and that is a Jonquil which is my birth flower. I will give you Spring

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  4. Wow, what a gorgeous quilt! I can see myself right there in the pasture, daydreaming about horsies and flowers :0) Beautiful work!

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  5. Hi I saw your link on Tuesday Treasures and your title made me come and have a look. I was born in Yorkshire too and now live in France! Your quilt is stunning. I think your quilt looks like spring so I would say your stone is aquamarine.

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  6. I was born in March and I recognize the jonquil as the birth flower. And the sky is a lovely aquamarine. Also, there are 7 fence posts, so I'm guessing March 7th? Beautiful work!

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  7. Oh wow! What a fantastic quilt! You did such an amazing job on it - love love love :)

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