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Hello, happy Monday to you all!

Have you seen all the amazing quilts already submitted to Amy's Fall Blogger's Quilt Festival?

I decided to join in and submit my daughter's Pinkie Pie quilt.

I questioned my sanity many, many times as I worked on this quilt. All those 4410 1" finished squares made for a very tedious, quite boring piecing process.

Once finished, however, I was really happy I persevered and finished the quilt as my daughter loves it and enjoys having it on her bed. And that's what it's all about, at least for me. I love making quilts for the ones I love, no matter how crazy they may be (the quilts, not the people) :)

I'm submitting this quilt to bed quilts category.

Have you joined  Blogger's quilt festival? There's still time to do so if you did not already. We would all love to see your wonderful creations. Svetlana

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0 marcelle medallion {blogger's quilt festival}

First off, thank you for all the kind and encouraging words I received from so many of you over the last few days. Unfortunately the toe is still as broken as it was a few days ago (of course it takes weeks for these things to get back to normal, I'm just too impatient), but I can sort of walk without crutches now, yay!!! Hopefully I'll get back to my machine soon, fingers crossed :)

I know many of you have seen this quilt before, but since we're allowed to submit two quilts to Blogger's Quilt Festival, I decided to enter my Marcelle Medallion in hand quilted category.

I so very much loved working on this quilt. I wanted to make a medallion quilt for quite a while and once I came across Alexia Abegg's Marcelle Medallion quilt pattern in her Liberty Love book I knew this was a quilt for me.

Once the quilt top was finished, hand quilting it seemed the only way to go.

I did not want the quilting to compete with the pattern of the quilt, so I used hand quilting thread to outline all the shapes and borders. It makes for lovely stitches that disappear into an overall design, adding the extra dimension without standing out too much.

Oh, I so love how the quilting looks on the back.

Finished size of this quilt is 58" x 58" and you can read my original post on this quilt here.

Thanks for reading. Svetlana

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0 single girl {blogger's quilt festival}

Yay, Blogger's quilt festival hosted by a wonderfully talented Amy is here again.

Unlike previous years, this time I knew rightaway which quilt I wanted to submit. My Single Girl quilt is without any doubt my most favorite quilt I made up to date.

I so love how the low volume background is wonderfully setting off all the bright, happy colors of the rings. The fact that I used tons of my scraps which remind me of all the previous projects I worked on is definitely a bonus.

This was not an easy quilt to make. All those templates just about killed me, but the result! Oh, so well worth all that work.

I planned on hand quilting this beauty from the moment I started cutting first templates. I just knew big chunky stitches using embroidery thread were the way to go.

Finished size of this quilt is 60" x 60" and to read my original post on this quilt you can click here.

Thank you so much for stopping by. Hope you all have an amazingly creative weekend. Svetlana

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0 stars in your eyes {blogger's quilt festival}

Yay! It's time! Blogger's quilt festival hosted by Amy is here again. I love participating, as well as browsing through tons of unbelievably beautiful quilts submitted by other bloggers.

I had a really hard time deciding on which quilt to submit. At the end, I decided to go with Stars in your Eyes quilt I made in January this year. 

I used a pattern by Sarah Fielke from her book Quilting...from little things and I'm still in love with all these scrappy stars. 

It was not an easy quilt to make since all the inset seams can be a little tricky, but it was the first quilt where I did not self-impose some crazy deadline on myself and then rushed through the process. That's probably why I enjoyed it so much.

These are the two of my very favorite stars. I used a lot of different fabrics from my stash, so I'm not even going to attempt to mane them all here. You can see all the stars in more detail here and here. The only fabric I bought specifically for this quilt was the one I used for the border (it's by Amy Butler from her Love collection).

I used a Shabby Chic sheet I bought at Target a while ago for the backing. I've loved that sheet for such a long time, it was so tempting to put it on our bed, but I simply could not imagine what the expression on my husband's face would be if our bed was covered in pink flowers?!?!

I decided to quilt around the outline of the stars as well as the inset diamonds. I did not want to quilt inside the stars themselves, I felt like I would lose some of their charm so I used a white six strand embroidery floss and  tied it inside each star.

I had a very hard time deciding on the binding. I usually go with darker colored binding, but it did not work well this time. I pulled out almost half of my stash and finally decided to go with this white and green small polka dot fabric, and since the whole quilt is so scrappy, I added some white and purple polka dot to the mix.

Thanks for stopping by. Svetlana

Blogger’s Quilt Festival Stats

Finished quilt measures : 63″x 82″

Special techniques used : Y seams, machine quilted as well as tied

Quilted by : myself

Best Category :  Scrap Quilt, Bed Quilt, Home machine Quilted Quilt

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