Bloggers’ Quilt Festival :: Spring 2012

nothing like getting in at the last minute. i'm so out of the loop with the current quilting scene (shameful, really, considering i print quilting fabric...) that i only heard about this edition of the bloggers' quilt festival yesterday. i had a quick scan through my photos and realized i hadn't shown my latest quilt in it's finished form so cajoled my good pal emily into standing out in the melbourne chill this morning to grab a full snap while our children ran around like wild things.



this quilt is made from a collection of my handprinted cloth, linen, cotton and linen/cotton blends. it's pretty special to me as it contains many of my first experiments with hand printing from last year, prints made from hand carved stamps that later became the screens that i use to print fabric today.





every piece of fabric in this quilt was printed by my hands and every bit of colour created around my whims (oh how i love to mix ink!). the backing is a soft, pale blue with a scattering of large white dots up one side (my many moons print), the binding my stormy weather clouds in alabaster white on pale grey. the piecing was completely improvisational, just fitting pieces together by size, one by one, until a quilt top formed, my favourite way to piece. and my favourite quilting method, machine stitched straight lines, not too perfectly placed, just the right amount of organic movement. all in all, it's a good one, i think : )

{if you've come here for the first time via the quilt festival - hello! thanks for stopping by! i hope you like what you see and will have a further poke around these hallowed halls of fabric and sewing, printing and quilts, kids and hijinks. and if you're keen to try a bit of fabric printing yourself, check out the swap i'm hosting, handprinted: a fabric swap II}