It's fun time when Amy invites us all to take part in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. Welcome to all of you!
I want to share my recently finished "Diagon Alley". You may recognize this from one of Kaffe Fassets book ... I was lucky to see the original quilt at one of his lectures before the pattern was published. And I fell completely in love!
This is the biggest quilt I have attempted hand-quilting. With help from Anne Rønningen, I got it basted on thin cotton (Quilters Dream Request). Then I spent hours stitching with perle cotton. The quilt is soft and not too heavy. I am so pleased to have finished it. The size makes it a challenge to take a decent picture. Even my husbands long arms was struggling to hold this one!
Showing a pre-quilted picture.
And a picture of the finished top before quilting. Not sure if I will ever try hand-quilting another one this size. It finished at 80" * 85". So it's big enough to share with a friend...Thank you for stopping by! Please enjoy more quilts from the Blogger Quilt Festival, and let yourself be inspired...
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Gorgeous quilt! The colors are wonderful. Great job!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning Marit.
ReplyDeleteAnd I bet the hand quilting makes it super soft and snuggly.
Enjoy!!
xxx
Woaw! What a beauty and what a great accomplishment !
ReplyDeleteAmazing quilt! Love the colors and design!
ReplyDeleteIt is absolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteWow Marit, this quilt is sooo beautiful! Love the fabrics, the pattern, everything! A true heirloom.
ReplyDeleteJust fabulous! I love the colors and arrangement.
ReplyDeleteWow, hand quilted! Beautiful quilt!
ReplyDeleteMarit!!! This is stunning! I love this quilt - the colors are fabulous. This is another one I would love to see in person!!!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt!!
ReplyDeleteThis is a gorgeous quilt. The color choices are beautiful.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely stunning! I can't believe you hand quilted a quilt this size! Bravo!!!
ReplyDeleteI love this! Love me some Kaffe Fasset but sometimes I feel it can overwhelm a pattern, but not this one!
ReplyDeleteI love that you hand quilted it, too!
As a hand quilter, you should link up with a growing new group of hand quilters. I have the button on my blog if you find yourself there, otherwise it's called Hand Quilters Unite, Celebrate Hand Quilting. (It's just something I stumbled upon, last week, it's not mine.)
GORGEOUS!!! I always admire this pattern hen looking through my KF books. Hopefully, someday I will make one......and MACHINE quilt it! ;) I am impressed by yours very much, Marit!
ReplyDeleteIt is simply breathtaking! The red diagonal stripe really gives depth to it - making it look like and alley:) I love the nine patch border. It looks like a quilt that will be well loved for a long time!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous quilt with lovely colors! That was quite a large quilt to quilt by hand, but is it one of your favorites since you spent so much time working on it? Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteStunning quilt! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteWow, gorgeous quilt! I really need to try working with KF fabrics. I adore them! You did an amazing job.
ReplyDeleteDear Marit,
ReplyDeletebreathtaking quilt!
How do you judge the quilting with pearl cotton? I will try that on my next project ;-)
Greetings from Germany ( were summer returns, 18° outside ),
Karin
I love this quilt! Definitely on my to do list! And yours is beautiful--an accomplishment indeed!
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely beautiful!! Your colors and patterns are so entertaining. I could look at it forever.
ReplyDeletelovely!
ReplyDeleteThat is absolutely beautiful!
ReplyDeleteWOW!! Lot's of love went in that quilt! Beautiful!
ReplyDeleteOh what a beautiful quilt. :o)
ReplyDeleteThat is an amazing quilt! I`m a huge KF fan and so it won`t surprise you that I love to play with colour too. I love hand quilting but I don`t know how you managed one quite that size! Absolutely stunning.
ReplyDeleteI love your colors choice!
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What a beautiful quilt. Thanks for sharing it with us.
ReplyDeleteYou're always Safe with Kaffe!
ReplyDeleteI love his stuff! I saw him speak last year during the Houston quilt show. What a handsome man!
Oh, and you are a brave woman to hand-quilt this beauty. :)
Gorgeous , gorgeous !!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful! I love the colours and of course, one can never go wrong with Kaffe!
ReplyDeleteIt is a beauty Marit. I too love this one and hope one day to make it. It would be so soft after being quilted like that. Fabulous! xo
ReplyDeleteI will let you share it with me!!! That is one stunneroo of a quilt. Well done that girl. And double well done for hand quilting it. Hugs Jas
ReplyDeleteBEAUTIFUL quilt!
ReplyDeleteoh wow Marit, I didn't realise you'd finished it - it is absolutely heavenly and wonderful and I'd love to see a close up of your hand quilting - gonna go back and look closer and see if I can see it! I machine quilted mine and could not have ever had the patience to hand quilt it but I bet the results are stunning!
ReplyDeleteMmmmm, delicious!
ReplyDeleteIt's beautiful, Marit. I have long admired this gorgeous quilt, you've certainly done it justice! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Well done!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely quilt - it´s amazing and the colors is absolutly gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love it :-)
It is gorgeous!!! I love it!!!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous quilt ... AND hand quilted!?!?!?!
ReplyDeletegreat colours, wonderful pattern, amazing quilting = gourgeous quilt !! congratulations ;-))
ReplyDeletegorgeous...love it!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous colors!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteVery eye appealing quilt. Nice job. And kudos for the handquilting.
ReplyDeleteOhhh, so pretty! Great bright colors and that pattern is just striking! And you hand quilted it? Marvelous!
ReplyDeleteI love your quilt, it looks great. It is so bright!
ReplyDeleteWhat can I say...wow! Absolutly gorgeous! I wonder if I'm going to handquilt my Kaffe Fasset..hmmm?
ReplyDeleteLovely quilt. Just beautiful Thanks for sharing and have a great day
ReplyDeleteHi! Just fantastic! So beautiful - I love all the different red colours and prints! Your design is really good! x Teje
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt. I love everything Kaffe Fassett. I admire your patience for hand quilting. Something I'll probably never try.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, bright colors! I really like it.
ReplyDeleteOh my, that must have been fun to organize!I don't know how you could have kept all those squares in order.
ReplyDeleteIt is so gorgeous! Congratulations on all of that hand quilting.
ReplyDeleteI am a HUGE Kaffe fan. !! I really love this quilt! Great job!! Hugs
ReplyDeleteLove your wonderful quilt.
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Thanks for sharing. :)
ReplyDeleteStill can't believe you hand quilted that! It's gorgeous!
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