Blogger's quilt festival spring 2014

It's always exciting when the Blogger's Quilt Festival comes around!

This year I am entering my most recent finish - my Seascapes string quilt made from my Moda Bake Shop tutorial.

I started working on it at the same time I was making the Wishes string quilt top for the Bake Shop project, but the top sat un-basted for a few months afterwards.

I finally got around to basting it a month ago - then it sat with me undecided on how to quilt it.......  Finally a week ago, I buckled down and quilted it!

 I ended up doing a freehand swirl/flower thing.  Probably not a design I will ever do again on a quilt - although it turned out nice, it was difficult and it took a LOT of thread.  I used 14 bobbins to quilt/bind this 85''x85'' quilt!  I worked hard last Sunday to try to get it done - and I had the quilting done, and started on the binding - when I was on the 3rd side of the binding, I found an area that hadn't been quilted!  A large area!  UGH.  I put it away for the night after that.  I swear this was the quilt that kept growing!

 I just adore the colors in this quilt!  I am hoping some day that another designer will come out with a collection of prints in these colors!  Love love love!

The backing with the sun shining through, busy busy!

And, a stripey binding of course ::grins::