Bloggers Quilt Festival!

I am so happy that it is time again for 

The Bloggers Quilt Festival!

Created by Amy Ellis, with an outstanding host of sponsors, this remains a foundational community building event among online quilting enthusiasts!

THANK YOU!!!!

My first entry is a small throw I finished in February this year, my 

Carolyn Friedlander Doe/Carkai HST Quilt!

 This is a smallish throw, measuring 45"x 60", that I made just for the pleasure of making and having HSTs from a stack of gorgeous Carolyn Friedlander charm packs!

 It began with 5 charm packs, a mix of her Doe and Carkai collections.

 So much of the fun was just pairing all those charms to my heart's content!

Seriously, so much FUN!

 Of course, arranging all those columns of HSTs was also a delightful part of the quilt making process! It is quilted with simple straight lines on either side of all the seams. Nice!

 It was Instagram shopping for the win, for both the backing and the binding!

Inexpensive Doe yardage for the back, and a surprise piece of BOTANICS(!!) for the binding! 

(Do you all ever just lose yourselves in #thegreatfabricdestash? Oh my goodness!)

 If you want to see the original "Finish" post for this quilt, it is here!

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look!

XO!

 SarahZ

Kiss Me In Santa Fe, Again!

My second entry in 

The Bloggers Quilt Festival 2017!

Hosted by the wonderful Amy at Amy's Creative Side!

One of my favorite quilts of this year, "Kiss Me In Santa Fe", was designed and made for my niece

and her husband, for their wedding!

 They were engaged in their favorite getaway town, Santa Fe, and when I realized the design was basically a stylized "X", the name became a fun play on that!

 The quilt is made entirely of Indah Batiks, by Me +You, except for that small bit of gold Alison Glass.

 The skinny stripes are my favorite part! 

It was gratifying to have all my quilty math work out!

I was able to get this off to her in June...not too awfully late, eh?

The Bride's sister was with her when the package arrived, and we opened it together via FaceTime, which was  super fun and a girly silly cherry on top!

Thank you so much for visiting my little corner of the Bloggers Quilt Festival! It is my favorite time of the quilty year!

Fall Bloggers Quilt Festival 2016!

There is nothing quite like the Bloggers Quilt Festival at Amy's Creative Side to get this blogger blogging! Yay!!

I counted up and this is my 11th entry! My 1st being in the Fall 2011 edition, way back on my Zimmermans West blog!!

So without further ado, here is "Cool Jayne", a January 2016 finish, and one of my all-time favorite quilts!

Inspired by "Cool Waters", a full sized quilt by Jayne, of Twiggy and Opal, "Cool Jayne" resulted from an accidental purchase of a mini instead of full sized charm pack of Denyse Schmidt's Modern Solids.

A happy little accident in my book!

It may be a simple shadow block pattern, but those colors....oooh baby! I just love 'em!

"Cool Jayne"

Mini Quilt category

21"x14"

Fabrics: Denyse Schmidt Modern Solids 

Thank you so much for stopping by my little corner of the Fall Bloggers Quilt Festival!

And a super big thanks to Amy and all the sponsors, and all the other bloggers, for continuing to make this such a special event! xoxo! SarahZ

Fall 2015 Bloggers Quilt Festival! Original Design

Welcome to my "booth" in the 

Fall 2015 Bloggers Quilt Festival!
Hosted by Amy Ellis @ Amy's Creative Side!
My (only!) entry this time around will not surprise some of you!
 "Prairie Rose Garden"

I made this quilt in September for the Moda Bake Shop using Tucker Prairie fabrics by 1Canoe2

I have made 3 other quilts using this block design, that I "christened" Prairie Rose.
The block design, and name, came about as the result of  playing with some leftover HSTs for a baby quilt...the baby's name was/is Lila Rose, and I live in Prairie country!

The corner HSTs create "stepping stones", scrappy when placed all together, but cohesive with each block.

I was thrilled to have the sweet opportunity to make a whole "garden" of these blocks for the Bake Shop with this amazing fabric collection!

The "stepping stones" are completed around the edges with a simple border.

The one criteria I set for myself when making these Roses was to LOVE each combination of fabrics
in each block, with less eye to the overall composition of colors. With these gorgeous fabrics, I knew I couldn't mess up the outcome!
Some of the individual blocks....

  

Simple straight line quilting, on the diagonals, and around the primary shapes.

 Prairie Rose Garden
64"x 82"
Original Design Quilts Category

 With so much to see and enjoy during this Festival, don't forget to nominate and vote for Viewers Choice,
and your faves in each category!
Thanks so much for looking!

A Spring Blogger's Grande

This is my second entry, large quilt category, in the Spring Bloggers Festival!

I also have a mini entered :)

Meet "Happy Mail"!

Adapted from a pattern by Jeni Baker of In Color Order

I love the fabrics...just a bunch of favorites that threw themselves together,

more about that here. 

For this entry, I went to the yard for a handful of fresh photos :)

with my "pet" sage :)

Everything is so clear and vibrant this morning after 2 days of rain!

I especially like this one, taken against the wall of our new straw bale building :)

Good ol' straight-line, zig-zag quilting

I simply swoon over the Lotta Jansdotter fabric on the back,

Olavi, in "rosey cheeks" from the Glimma collection.

"Happy Mail"

56" x 72"

Pattern: adapted from Fly Home by Jeni Baker

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Enjoy the Festival!!!

A Spring Blogger's Mini

Yep, it is that most wonderful time of the blogger's year again!
My entry in the mini category will come as no surprise to some of you!

It has featured in recent blog posts here and, with a few tips and links to tutorials, here!

It is certainly a shining star in my quilty sky!

I included pockets in each corner to hang variously as it suits me :)

The fabric choices are in keeping with my Simply Sawtooth BOM

Cathedral Windows Mini
9"x 18"
Fabrics:
 A little Amy, Aneela, Kate, Khristian, Lotta, Lizzy, Denyse, Jane, Joel, and Ralph (Lauren that is) in the background, the wee orange check :)
Thanks so much for stopping by!