Amy over at Amy’s Creative Side is the founder of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. This is an opportunity for bloggers to share one special quilt and the story behind it.
Click on the link above to see all the participating bloggers. Get your coffee first, you will be there a while!
And here is one of my favorite quilts. I call it “Remember Me”:
I apologize for not having a full on shot but I can’t move that piano! This quilt is the first major hand pieced quilt I made. I tried to use all reproduction fabrics but they were a bit harder to find back in 1996! I fell in love with hand piecing while making this and have made numerous hexagon quilts since then. I do not use English paper piecing, I rotary cut my pieces using a plexiglas template and mark each seam line in pencil on the back. I carried pieces of this everywhere while making it and found I could make one flower between my house and the grocery store if my hubby was driving :). The border is hand appliqued and the buds are three dimensional. The applique in the four corners are a pineapple to represent hospitality, a flower pot to represent beauty, a bird for freedom, and grapes for flavor! This quilt is also hand quilted so I know it is one of my older pieces, I haven’t hand quilted in ages now. Here are some detail shots:
Join in the fun of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival and share the story of one of your favorite quilts!
Until next time….
KatyQuilts 
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Wow! Truly a masterpiece.
Lots of hexie goodness!
very nice–what a lot of work!! thanks for sharing
Shannon, mine is not paper pieced. I have tried that but find I prefer marking the seams and just hand piecing in the traditional manner. Either way works, but try a sample of each and see what you like best. I warn you though, hexagons are addicting! Thanks for stopping by!
Wow! This is the most comments I have ever had! Thanks to everyone for stopping by and leaving love :). I am slowly making my way through the Blogger’s Quilt Fest list myself so if you have a blog, I hope to visit soon!
The quilt looks great hung there beside the piano.
Hey K, you captured the antique feel and I really like your new old finds too. If you email back with a reminder I’ll find the pattern name for the cheddar quilt.
come see my antique quilt entries
1890 cheddar star and repro.
http://starleyquilts.blogspot.com
1890 double pink star
http://utahquiltappraiser.blogspot.com
Holy Cow! I totally love your quilt. Hmm….I have not tried paper piecing yet. I’m still a newbie. Sew On!
this is lovely..i love the hex flowers and the fabrics are pretty
Oh my goodness, this is an amazing quilt…made all the more so by the fact that it was done by hand. Gorgeous!
Beautiful quilt.
Stunning, and the border! completes it.
Beautiful!
Nicely done.
Thank you Marie, Barb, Kathy, Carla and Pat! I so enjoyed making this quilt and was surprised to find that I loved the handwork. I am glad you all have blogs, my coffee is ready and I am coming to visit :).
Lovely layout of the hexagons! It looks great next to your piano! Such patience in all that handwork! Truly a masterpiece!
Wow I’m totally in love with your quilt! This is on my must make list. I’m hoping to start sometime this year. Any tips? Thank you for sharing :o)
Your flower garden quilt looks right at home where you have it displayed by your piano. What a lovely job you did on the handquilting too.
great hexagon quilt – Thanks for sharing it
Great job
Thanks Laurie and Rafael’s Mum! Yes, we have no living room as we chose to have a music room instead :). My kids are great musicians!
Laurie- The windows could be the inspiration behind an upcoming project as I love art quilting too.
What a lot of work! But all worth it! (lovely piano too. … I am jealous you having the space for it!)
It looks great there behind the piano, made me realize that I have an empty wall behind MY piano that is crying out for a quilt! It won’t be as intricate as that one though. I loved the picts of the window in your previous post too.
Thank you Roz and Sherri! The only thing I would do differently now is that I would have made this bigger :). Maybe I should do another….hmmm…..LOL
Your quilt is absolutely stunning…I love the dimensional buds…and I’m so glad you shared the close ups because you can really see the beauty of the quilt in those pictures!
What an accomplishment this quilt represents.
Thank you for your comments and for visiting Miri, Cynthia, and Allie! Allie, Hexagons are the easiest possible shapes to piece. Cut a few and try them! But I warn you, they are addicting :)!
This is spectacular- I love the look of hexagons but am not brave enough to try them. Love your appliques in the borders too!
I can’t believe you did that all by hand! That is simply amazing! I love the vine and the little 3D flowers!
Lovely! Simply lovely!
Thanks Cindy! I relly love piecing hexagons, there are never more than three seams coming together and that makes them so easy.
Wow – I’ve been doing a hand piecing project for years and it’s finally almost ready to quilt. by hand of course! your quilt makes me think that a hexagon project would be a good next hand piecing project! It’s lovely.
Thanks for visiting and leaving lovely comments! Valentina and RedPepper, I have been following both of your blogs for a while now. Linda, I am off to check yours out now!
I am a hexi-freak, so this is love at first sight!
How beautiful!
Thanks for sharing,
Valentina from Cyprus
What a great hexagon layout! Beautifully hand pieced and the applique is inspiring.
So Beautiful!