Are you as excited about Bloggers’ Quilt Festival as I am?!?
I’ve ooh’d and ahh’d over all the amazing quilts in past festivals and am happy to add my little quilt to this year’s festival.
“Over and Under” is my first bed size quilt that I quilted on my home machine. It fits my queen sized bed and is a major victory for me.
Eleven years ago, I was a beginner quilter who after making two baby quilts decided it was time to make quilt for my bed. Ambitious, I know!
I finished the top, but quickly got frustrated with the quilting and gave up. That quilt is still a UFO somewhere deep in one of my closets. I avoided making a bed sized quilt until a few months ago when I found a quilt pattern that I just had to try.
Working on this quilt was not easy. I had to encourage myself to keep at it and get it done. I came through it having learned a lot about quilting a big quilt on a small machine. I put together a few tips in the hopes of encouraging other quilters to give it a try.
Once I got this quilt finished, I felt so accomplished that I started planning my next big quilt!
Thanks for stopping by! Enjoy the festival!
96 comments
Beautiful quilt – certainly worth persevering!
Hi "Mama Love Quilts" ( love your blog name)
Lovely quilt. Beautiful color choices and nice quilting.
great quilt! wonderful colors. looks great wrapped around you. thanks for sharing and have a great day
That first pic with the quilt wrapped around you is a true eye-catcher! Wonderful quilt – and I love your quilting lines !!
This is a beautiful quilt with lovely color choices. Your straight line quilting looks great. Thanks for sharing tips for quilting.
Love the quilt, the colours are just stunning!
Love the quilt, the colors are just perfect! The quilting is amazing.
Congratulations on persevering — this is so beautiful! I'm clicking through to look at your quilting tips right now — thank you!
Nicole, this is gorgeous!!
Such lovely colors! That's a great pattern and your quilting is stunning I cannot imagine how much time that took to quilt, but it was worth it! Gorgeous!
Beautiful! I'm still not brave enough to quilt a larger project…I keep sending them off…You did a wonderful job!
Wow your quilt is gorgeous! Well worth the effort. The quilting you've chosen really pulls it all together.
Totally a VICTORY!!! Beautiful!!!
Stunning!!!!!
Ann
I LOVE your quilt. Beautiful color and great stitches.
Awesome quilt. I really like that pattern and the quilting is perfect. I make a lot of bed sized quilts but I always send them out to my long arm quilter to quilt. I admire anyone who does their own quilting by machine.
Beautiful! I'm so happy for you for perservering through the process. Your photos are just lovely, too.
I get so frustrated even quilting table mats on my domestic machine but years ago caved and bought a mid-arm and frame as my "toy" so I wouldn't give up on the process at all. I am in awe of those who manage such great projects with their home machines… I'm in awe of you.
So, so pretty.
Hi Nicole, your quilt is beautiful. Your fabric choices on white are crisp. Love the photo too.
Beautiul, beautiful quilt! I love the fabrics, colors and the design! Great job with the quilting. Sending quilts out to a longarmer is fine, but there's nothing like the feeling of quilting it yourself and knowing that you made the whole thing, start to finish! Well done Nicole!
It's beautiful. A lovely mix of tradition and modern, complexity and simplicity.
Love your quilting choice!
Yep…still gorgeous!!! Love it, Nicole!
Great accomplishment! This quilt is gorgeous! From the pattern to the colors of fabric you chose and the quilting design, it is really a beautiful work of art! Keep quilting…you are an artist!
This is a lovely quilt with great colors and fabrics. You should be very proud of your accomplishments.
So gorgeous Nicole. I just love this quilt.
That's a stunner! Love the color palette and the pattern. Beautiful!
Very nice and I love the quilting!! Thanks for sharing.
Very pretty and a beautiful design!
I colori sono veramente belli!
Ciao
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choice of color undoubtedly original congratulatory
I just love the texture that straight line quilting adds to a quilt. Your quilt is so pretty. Well done!
This is beautiful!
Such pretty colors!
I am so happy you entered this one, it is a stunner!!
I am so happy you entered this one, it is a stunner!!
Beautiful quilt. Love the colors and the use of white for the background. I am seeing so many quilts with white as the background that are really amazing in all the quilting magazines. Enjoy your blog so I have signed on as a regular! I really like reading all the different quilting blogs out there.
Beautiful Nicole….you couldn't have picked a better one for festival!!
I love yor quilt and the choice of colors!
So glad you seized the moment with another bed sized quilt, it's fab :o)
I just love your quilt ! Gorgeous fabrics you used !
LOVE IT!
Margaret
http://quiltsoflove.blogspot.com/
I LOVE this quilt! The pattern, the colors, everything! So beautiful!
Still loving that quilt!
Good luck in the festival!! =D
Love your colours in this beautiful quilt!
LOVE!
What a great photo of you and your quilt. Both of you are beautiful!
Thanks for sharing.
I enjoyed browsing through your blog. You do amazing work and I love your choice of design and color. Great job.
Love the secondary star pattern that shows up in the background fabric. Congrats on a big finish!
Your quilt is so pretty! Thanks for the quilting encouragement and tips. I have a queen size quilt top made and need to get it quilted, but I've been dreading it. You make it sound doable.
I love Scrap-Basket Sensations! I am in love with your version of this quilt (maybe even more so than the one in the book!!!!)
WOW! Your quilt is so beautiful! Love it! : )
Gorgeous – very impactful with the wide, white border and I like the way you quilted it.
So glad you stuck with your goal to make a bed size quilt! It's gorgeous!
Wow, the colors and pattern are really wonderful! I love the straight line quilting!
Beautiful quilt. What an accomplishment to have quilted it on a home sewing machine!
I'm glad you showed this again. I think this is a wonderful accomplishment
I love that pattern and the colours you chose are just perfect. It was certainly worth wrestling with it on your little machine. Glad to hear it didn't put you off and that you're willing to have a go at another one.
Your quilt is beautiful; I especially love the colour and fabric choices.
You did a great job — I'm amazed that you quilted such nice, close-together lines on a little machine! I was one of those people who tried quilting a queen-sized one on an eensy machine and vowed never to do it again… my solution was to get a bigger machine one, though. ;D
Wonderful quilt, and beautiful color choices. Thank you for sharing it with us.
Beautiful quilt and yay you for doing all that quilting on your machine! Nice to find your blog. 🙂
Superb.
this is really beautiful thanks for the inspiration. i love the colors of the fabrics
I love this quilt, so nice to see it in the festival!
It is a very pretty quilt!, well done. The selection of fabrics is wonderful.
Love your quilt! Thank you for sharing with us!
Oh my this quilt is fabulous – the quilting is just amazing! I quilt all of my quilts on my domestic machine, so I do understand – it can get tough sometimes! You did a fantastic job, and I LOVE the top pic of you wrapped up in it, so gorgeous!!!
Great quilt! Love the fabrics you used!
What a stunning quilt! The colour palette is really beautiful! I can see why you are so proud of it! I need some of your encouragement from your tips to quilt one of my latest tops!
This quilt is beautiful! I love the pic with you in it. I just feel how cozy it is with that stripped quilting. I quilted one like that at the beginning of the year and loved how it felt.
It's beautiful. You did such a wonderful job on the machine quilting.
Beautiful!!
A beautiful quilt, beautifully photographed!
Gorgeous quilt, your quilting is fabulous… and I totally LOVE that first photo of you wrapped in the quilt. Gorgeous.
Your quilt is truly striking and so is the top picture.
I have admired this quilt before as I think it is just gorgeous!
This is SUCH an AWESOME quilt – just love it!
You know I love this quilt Nicole – the greens and purples, the design, the quilting and the shot of you is gorgeous too!
Nicole: What a stunning quilt. The first photo of you wrapped up in the quilt is amazing! An awesome photo. Nothing says "love" like a quilt wrapped around someone providing warmth 🙂
Love your quilt!
Gorgeous quilt! I love your fabric choices!
Great tips, great colours, you encourage me to "go big"… thanks much!
Great tips, great colours, you encourage me to "go big"… thanks much!
THIS QUILT IS BEAUTIFUL! I really like the design, the fabric and the QUILTING. Thanks so much for the tips!
Lovely!
Some great tips and reminders about the importance of ergonomics of quilting…
I love the beautiful colors you chose in your design.
The quilting is lovely too.
Thanks for sharing your quilt- May you continue to make many more large quilts.
Regards,
Anna
I love your quilt Nicole and I thank your for the very interesting tips about quilting on a home machine. I usually handquilt, because I like the process, but my next quilt will be machine quilted and I will take care of your tips.
Your quilt is beautiful, I love the pattern and colors you picked. Thanks for the tips, I haven't tried bigger quilts yet so I read your tips closely. Thank you.
It is such a beautiful quilt. It is lovely to tackle something new or harder and to succeed to well. I'm off to check out your tips – I think I need them! Juliex
Awesome!!!! love the pattern, colors and story.
Wow! You did an awesome job and I love the colors you chose.
This quilt is absolutely gorgeous! Great job!
I love the photo work on this quilt by the way. You really featured it well. I totally hear you on using a small machine to do the quilting…you did a stunning job with that.
beautiful…love the colors!
We've been nominated together at the blogger's quilt festival for best photographer. It's such an honour. Your quilt is fantastic!
Wow it is really beautiful and such an accomplishment! I have a king sized quilt I have been working on for four years or so now. One of these days I'll get the motivation to get through the final stages. This is really a great quilt!!
Beautiful, Nicole! You got my votes (o:
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