September 20, 2016

Blogger's Quilt Festival - Denim Hexies

It's time for the Blogger's Quilt Festival again, with our host Amy of Amy's Creative Side. This year, I've chosen to enter my Denim Hexies quilt in the Home Machine Quilted category.
Denim Hexies quilt | DevotedQuilter.blogspot.com
I had so much fun making this quilt. First there was the experiment...would it be possible to do EPP with denim? Obviously, it was, and I love the denim hexie flowers. Then came the quilting.

With all that white fabric around the flowers, it was the perfect canvas for lots of fun flow quilting. I chose the gold thread to coordinate with the flower centers and so the flow quilting would stand out from the background. It was fun to watch the background transform.
Beginning of flow quilting | DevotedQuilter.blogspot.com
The flower centers all have shapes chosen from Angela Walters' book Shape by Shape Quilting.
Hexie fmq | DevotedQuilter.blogspot.com
The backing fabric is too busy for all the individual shapes of the flow quilting to show up, but I do like how the gold thread looks against the blue and white. I love how the flowers puff up too.
Denim hexies quilt back | DevotedQuilter.blogspot.com
Thanks for stopping by! There are always many, many gorgeous quilts shared during the Blogger's Quilt Festival, so be sure to pop over there and check them out :)

16 comments:

  1. I just love the quilting on this mini, Leanne, and the way the contrasting thread just glows. This is a fabulous entry and I'm excited you are sharing it in the BQF!

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  2. I could look at this quilt for hours. Love your quilting!

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  3. The quilting on your little quilt is beautiful!

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  4. Amazing quilting! Would have never thought of denim hexies, they look great with the gold quilting tread!

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  5. Interesting! Beautiful quilting.

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  6. Beautiful quilting! I love hexis, so the whole piece is very appealing to me. :)

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  7. That's a great way to showcase some fmq! Well done.

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  8. That's a great way to showcase some fmq! Well done.

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  9. That's a great way to showcase some fmq! Well done.

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  10. The quilting is gorgeous and works so well with the flower centers! And EPP with denim deserve a medal for bravery!

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  11. It's nice to see this one again. I entered this category as well. Good luck.

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  12. The quilting is amazing. I have just been trying to freemotion quilt at a class and now I understand how much skill is involved in your quilt!

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  13. Wonderful quilting Leanne, you get my vote.

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  14. The quilting definitely makes this piece. Nice work.

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  15. The quilting definitely makes this piece. Nice work.

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