Voting for Quilts is on Now!

mine is #330... just in case you were wondering.

It's almost but not yet time to vote for president here in the USofA, but anyone in the entire world can vote for your favorite quilts right now! The Blogger's Fall 2012 Quilt Festival voting has begun. You must vote by November 4!

You can vote for your favorite in several categories, AND vote for your one Favorite Of All (Viewers' Choice). Use the form at the link below to vote in Categories, and go to the link for Viewers' Choice to vote for your Fave.

Here is a link to the Categories form:

CATEGORIES VOTING

And here is a link to vote for your all-over Favorite: (scroll down to the thumbnail pictures)

VIEWERS' CHOICE (FAVE)

Have fun! There are over 600 gorgeous quilts to choose from!

Bloggers' Quilt Festival - Fall (#330)

It's time for the Bloggers' Quilt Festival! I am participating again! This week, through the end of October, take some time to follow the button, or click HERE, and look at all the beautiful quilts and BE INSPIRED! The button is on my sidebar. (Oh, also be thinking about which is your favorite of several categories, because starting in November, you'll get to VOTE.)

My quilt is called Purple Play. It is a birthday quilt I made for a friend's daughter's golden birthday. My only instruction was to make it purple, and big enough for her full-queen bed. I had a lot of fun putting this together. I made the whole top while at a retreat last winter. Some of the retreat attendees gave me good feedback as to block placement and pattern. (You know how many options there are for Log Cabin.. a zillion! So their opinions were helpful.)

Later it was machine quilted by Diane who is my favorite pro quilter. She does beautiful work! Unfortunately, I do not have close-up photos of the quilting. Wish you could see how beautiful it is.

Purple Play

the birthday girl with her quilt

Purple Play is about 80" x 84".
Professionally quilted on a longarm.
Technique: Log Cabin

I am entering this quilt in two categories:
1) Bed Quilt
2) Professionally Quilted Quilt

Voting instructions will come next week. Meanwhile, have FUN cruising around the web looking at gorgeous quilts.

Finalists - Omigosh!!!!

My masterpiece is being kind of a show-off and got itself into the finals!


I'm flabbergasted! My quilt entry at Blogger's Quilt Festival was nominated and made it to the finals in THREE categories!! Thanks to those of you who voted for my quilt! I'm feeling a little sheepish about my begging for votes. OTOH, it is FUN to be in the finals! (And it is my masterpiece, after all... this may be a once-in-a-lifetime experience for me.)

I can't win three times, but go ahead and vote for whatever you want in all 15 categories, whether it's mine that you vote for in those three categories or not, please just vote. What fun! Here is the link:

http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/28/bloggers-quilt-festival-vote-now/

You have 3 days to vote (you can only vote once). I'm not sure if voting closes on the 30th or the 31st.. so if you want to vote, do it now before it closes. Winners will be announced on .. Sunday, June 3, I think (?) . I'm not as sure of these details as I am about the fact that I'm in the finals. *smile* This made my day!

First Round of Voting (#394.. Hint Hint!)

This is #394!

Voting has begun at the Bloggers' Quilt Festival 2012..... votes can happen May 22-25. It's a little bit easier to see all the quilt photos at the Flickr site. Here's a link to that:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/bloggersquiltfestival/


However, you need to know the quilt's number, which you get from the thumbnails here (scroll way down to the Linkys, and you'll see the thumbnails.) To make it easy, of course, you can just vote with the #394 which I conveniently provided for you. But just in case, here are all the quilts with their numbers:

http://amyscreativeside.com/2012/05/18/bloggers-quilt-festival-spring-2012/

Here is an easy link to the ballot.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?om=true&richtext=false&formkey=dDM3YmlrNDl0TktjUzRyaG5oMDBKSmc6MQ#gid=0

If you want to vote for mine, it is #394. My quilt qualifies for the following categories:
Bed Quilt
Pieced Quilt
Professionally Quilted

and I think there is Viewers' Choice, also.

This is shameless begging for votes, but what the heck. It would make me happy if I get more than one or two votes. That's all I hope for. Of course, you can vote your own conscience/preference/opinion!! There are zillions of quilt entries, and they are fabulously gorgeous. Have fun looking.

This round of votes picks the finalists, then there will be a 2nd round of voting. Thanks for the nice comments I've received so far! I appreciate people checking it out.

My Masterpiece - Again!

This is my quilt that I call my Masterpiece. If you are a regular reader, you have seen it many times already. I'm posting it again so that I can easily direct voters to its photo. I am entering it in the Bloggers' Quilt Festival 2012.

This quilt was so much fun to make, partly because I thought I would hate making it, so it was a challenge to take it on. It is made of a Zillion small nine-patches. I thought they'd drive me crazy, but they didn't. Good thing I like making nine-patches.

I saw this quilt in a magazine and decided I wanted to make it. I took the pattern to my favorite quilt shop (Aunt Annie's in Avon, Minnesota) and had Lucy, the shop owner, help me pick fabrics. The colors are very similar to what was shown in the magazine, but I like mine better!

From there I went to our lake cabin and cut, cut, cut, and sewed, sewed, sewed. I got almost all the blocks made, with just a few left in pieces for assembly. Later in the fall, I finished the top assembly while at a guild retreat. I loved pulling out that project and having the blocks done and just work on the assembly. It took a while, but I sure impressed myself when I got it all done.

It was machine quilted by my favorite long-arm artist, Diane. It then hung in our guild's show during the month of February, and then I gave it to the newlywed couple who had been waiting for it for a year and a half. They love it. And I feel that I accomplished my Masterpiece of my career (so far).