Friday 17 May 2013

Fontastic - Blogger's Quilt Festival

It's that time - the Blogger's Quilt Festival! A time to check out awesome inspiring quilts and discover new blogs along the way. What's not to love?!

Hardest part is picking what to enter! I've decided to enter Fontastic for the festival. It's one of my favourite quilts so far - mainly because of all the love that has gone into it. Not just by me ;) It's a fabulous collaborative entry!

I've posted about this previously, but this is a new post for the festival. Even took a couple new pics for it! Need pics right?


Here it is! 33 inspiring and encouraging words, pieced by 28 different quilters. These lovely ladies helped me out by testing my paper pieced alphabet pattern (Just My Type available in my Craftsy store). My lovely friend Erin suggested making a word quilt with the tester blocks. And so we did!


 It is backed with a really lovely snuggly fleece so it'll be nice and cosy.


I love that without much (any?!) discussion amidst the testers involved, we got a really great rainbow of blocks! So of course to finish off the quilt, what could be better to go with that than a bit of Simply Color?


I was surprised at how easily the blocks went together with so many different contributors. But it was so easy to put together. I just did very simple straight line quilting as I didn't want to take away from the effect of the blocks. I think they are outstanding on their own :)



Again - a huge thank you to all the wonderful girls involved in making this - from Erin's idea, right down to Gina naming it Fontastic. It's been collaborative through and through. And fitting for such a quilt - it will be donated to charity.



Final stats:
Quilt name: Fontastic
Measurements: Big haha! Around 80"x 90""
Special techniques: Paper piecing
Machine quilted: by me (very basically!!)
Entering this in the group/bee category for the Blogger's Quilt Festival.





30 comments:

  1. Love it more every time i see it! Looking forward to trying out my new Just My Type patterns, i'm thinking next week is going to be all about paper piecing for me!
    Good luck with your entry!!

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  2. a fantastic quilt and I can say a great pattern. I have used your pattern and the letters are very user friendly to make

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  3. What a beautiful, inspiring quilt, Kristy! I bet it is wonderful to snuggle under.

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  4. And happy to be a small part of it! It's a great quilt!

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  5. This turned out to be oh so awesome!
    My apologies for not being able to help you out on this one.

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  6. This turned out to be oh so awesome!
    My apologies for not being able to help you out on this one.

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  7. Aren't kids the greatest at suspending quilts? Beautiful quilt - I love the words that were used.

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  8. You have ended up with a wonderful rainbow of words - quite amazing with so many contributing. The back sounds just perfect for a quilt.

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  9. I love this quilt and the last photo is sweet.

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  10. This quilt should definitely win, right?
    Esther
    ipatchandquilt dot wordpress dot com

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  11. This is an amazing quilt. All those words on the white look fab. And I like the photo shoot with your little helpers :)

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  12. What a cool idea for a group quilt!

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  13. It's very special and very beautiful. I think you made a great choice for the festival entry!

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  14. Love the new pics!! The last one is my favorite; it is a perfect setting and really shows the quilt.

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  15. Woo hoo - I love this quilt!

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  16. Beautiful quilt, and what a great ide for a charity quilt, good luck :-)))))

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  17. I love how this turned out! I adore collaborative quilts. Nicely done!

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  18. Fontastic is really a unique quilt Kristy, and I absolutely adore it!

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  19. Fantastic quilt Kristy! Thanks for sharing it as part if the festival :) I love it, well done!

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  20. Wow! Amazing quilt. Love the use of your own fonts to do it. Congrats!

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  21. Fontastic is surely Fantastic! My favorite picture is the last one... with your kids holding it up from the playhouse!!

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  22. Brilliant quilt! The simply color edging is perfect!

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  23. you know I love this one :-)

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