Blogger's Quilt Festival

I posted recently on a music quilt that I made to be raffled in a friend's fundraiser....a friend who's battling cancer. I've decided to enter this quilt in the Blogger's Quilt Festival over at Amy's Creative Side. 

This is a very special quilt. It was made for Peter.....well, a fundraiser for Peter.  Peter is battling cancer....Stage IV cancer....of the head and neck. This is the same kind of cancer that I battled five years ago. 

I think it was on the very same day that I decided to make a quilt for his raffle that I opened up one of my old Fons & Porter magazines to find a quilt that I had bookmarked as one I wanted to make one day. The quilt was called Beautiful Voices, using the Beautiful Voices collection by Gail Kessler for Andover Fabrics. Some of the fabrics were no longer available. Fortunately, I was able to find the piano keys fabric and the off white musical note fabric. Then my husband went to the fabric store with me to pick out the rest, as this was special to him, too --- he and Peter have been very good friends for 30+ years. 

I quilted this myself on my Husqvarna/Viking Scandinavia 300 using a walking foot, using stitch in the ditch on most of the quilt and wavy lines (using a Truflex II Flexible Curve because I don't have enough experience with free motion quilting) on the black sections, and outlining most of the keys on the piano section.  I also tried my hand at machine applique on the center treble clef. I machine sewed the binding on the front and hand sewed it on the back. 

I used over 300 pins because of all the different sections and the 54" panels.  Crazy!!!

I was really happy with the way it turned out, and loved how it looked blowing in the breeze (my hubby is the magic behind the quilt there). 

Finished size: 62" x 76"

Special Techniques: Machine Piecing, Stitch in the Ditch, Machine Applique, Triflex II Flexible Curve

Quilted by: Lisa Nielsen a.k.a. Lisa Lisa (that's me!)

Category: Home Machine Quilted