Monday, October 27, 2014

Blogger's Quilt Festival :: Red Hots {Mini Quilt Category}

Scrolling back through the quilts I've finished over the last few several months, it was Red Hots that beckoned to be shared again. Small as it is, it's one I savored from the moment the fabric landed on my doorstep to the very last stitch of its matched binding. An original design, it was created for the Oakshott Ruby Mini Quilt Challenge hosted by Sew Mama Sew
It was my first time working with Oakshotts, and boy was I dazzled. I didn't have a clear design when I started, but I knew 2 things: 1) I hoped to incorporate some curves, and 2) I wanted to use every one of the colors in the bundle.
So I 'made' some striped fabric from random widths, and beginning with a curved striped column, began creating a design as I went, left to right. When I was happy with what I'd created, I added borders 
And this is where the real fun began. Using nearly every "hot" thread I had, I matchstick quilted in the solid strips and did some parallel diagonals in the striped sections, all with my walking foot.
Luckily, I had enough of my made fabric left to use it as binding, which pleased me to no end. 
So matched binding it was. What a perfect finish to a most enjoyable sew.

Quilt stats:
Finished size19" x 20"
Pattern: my original design
Fabric: Oakshott Ruby Red shot cottons
Thread: a variety of types and colors
Quilted by: myself, using a walking foot 
Helpful tutorials: Cutting and Sewing Free Hand Curves by Red Pepper Quilts;

My previous entries in the Blogger's Quilt Festival:
Unlocked, 5/16/14
Crazy Rainbow, 10/25/13
Absolutely Mod Pop, 5/19/13
HST Love, 5/17/13
Hopscotch, 5/19/12
Mango Revisited, 10/28/11
Supernova, 5/13/11

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23 comments:

  1. Lovely to see your beautiful quilt again. It really is exciting!

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  2. I don't know how I missed this one of yours the first time you shared it, but it's gorgeous, Debbie! I love what you did with the stripes. The quilting adds great movement too. Beautiful!

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  3. What a beautiful quilt, Debbie! Such great color and movement!

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  4. Your Red Hots quilt is just stunning! From the vibrant colors and creative design to the perfectly enhanced quilting you have really captured a winning entry.
    Congratulations!

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  5. Love this! Beautiful, bright and the quilting is amazing!

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  6. Simply amazing! It was interesting seeing the photos showing the development of this fabulous quilt. And your machine quilting is wonderful - it really enhances what was already a great little quilt! Good luck!

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  7. Debbie this is such a neat entry! Thanks for showing how you did the diagonal pieces.

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  8. Love the quilting and especially the scrappy diagonal binding!

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  9. Oh, yes - a perfect quilt for the festival! The fabrics really are dazzling. Love how the colors work together!

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  10. Love all the brightly coloured hues!

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  11. This is just amazing! I love the colors and the design.

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  12. I just love the quilting you did on this small piece. Ot adds such great texture.

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  13. This quilt is so fantastic, it is so nice to see it again for the festival. I love every part of her, especially the quilting and that binding is a perfect finish.

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  14. Oh, I like this - hot colours indeed. Beautifully quilted and very striking

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  15. I love everything about this fun quilt!!

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  16. It's such a vibrant colourful quilt. I love the layout, the quilting, the colors - everything about it :)

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  17. What a lovely vibrant quilt, such rich colours!

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  18. Very creative. Love the colors blending so well in the curves.

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  19. Wow! I love the quilting and the binding and the thread colors and the fabric colors and the curved piecing and, well, the whole thing really. Thanks for entering this so I can see it!

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  20. I love how this turned out, Oakshotts are so fabulous to work with!

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  21. I love the juxtaposition of the soft curves and the diagonal stripes you created with the fabrics. It gives me a lovely feeling of energy from the quilt.

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