My Bloggers' Quilt Festival Entry

Firstly thanks very much to Amy for arranging this fabulous event in Blogland, and to  all the great sponsors who are giving some great prizes this year.   I have watched the festival for a few years but this is my first entry.  I hope you like it!

This was step 1 of my Tropical Circles quilt, that I finished in July this year.  I used the Curvemaster Foot for the circles, and learned how to use it very quickly.  It made sewing the circles easy, and I find it a good all round foot to use now, not just good for circles.

Here we are with the border on, and the quilting done.  It took me about 6 hours to quilt the piece,in 1 hour lots, it was my first attempt at free motion quilting, and I did a different design on each circle.  I was very pleased with how it turned out, and very proud of myself to have done so much quilting on it. (I'm usually a stitch in the ditch person - as long as it's quick and easy!)

Here she is - bound and draped artistically across my chair.  I do like the way the blue border sets off the colours in the circles.

So race along now to Amy's Creative Side and have a look at all the other quilts entered this time.  They are really fun...