Bloggers Quilt Festival

Here is my entry to the 4th Bloggers Quilt Festival over at Amy's. This is the 4th year that I am participating in this Festival, and I enjoyed the first, second and third show enormously. This year due to some technical difficulties I will not be able to connect to the Internet for 4 days of the Festival, so I will have to visit the blogs later on, but I definately will visit as many of them as I can!

I made this quilt using my very first (and only) jelly roll and charm pack, which I received as a present for my 40th birthday from my Mum. It was lovely to work with these gorgeous fabrics! I planned to stipple quilt it, but it just did not work for me, so I decided to hand quilt it in the ditch instead. At least I was already enjoying my new quilt while still working on it!

I pieced the back too, beacuse I love pieced backs which can be seen all around the blogging world.

It is lovely and cosy to sit under it in the evenings while watching my favourite shows and sewing something new! :-)

Ez itt az idei kiállítási darabom Amy éves online quilt show-ján. Az eddigi egyetlen jelly roll és charm pack-em felhasználásával készült, és bár nem sikerült megkukacolnom, ahogy eredetileg terveztem, hanem helyette kézzel steppeltem a varrásvonalakban, így is imádom.

The Blogger's Quilt Festival is coming soon again over at Amy! I have participated in the earlier festivals and had great fun (but little sleep during the show...), so if you have a quilt you made and want to show off, come and join the fun. It is open to everyone interested, not judged, only enjoyed. And on top of the great fun and experiences, you can even win great things from the sponsors!


Hamarosan megint itt van a Blogger Quilt Festival Amy oldalán! Ha van olyan saját készítésű takaród, amivel szívesen eldicsekednél ország-világ előtt, ne habozz, gyere csatlakozz a bulihoz. Bárki jelentkezhet, nincsenek bírák, csak szórakozás, tapasztalatcsere, és még nyerni is lehet a szponzoroktól!

Quilt Festival 2010

The Third Bloggers Quilt Festival is on! Go and have a look at all the gorgeous quilts on display all over blogland.

Here is my entry and the story of it. I hope you will like it!







I made this little quilt to make me remember the Coogee Patchwork Group - as if I needed anything to remind me of them :-)

While living and working in Sydney, Australia between 1993-1996, I learnt how to quilt. First I attended an evening course at TAFE, and later the group decided we enjoyed sewing and each others company so much, that we would continue our weekly meetings after the course, too. So our teacher Edith found a place for us to meet in a senior citizens club at Coogee Oval.

I did not drive in Sydney before that time because driving on the 'wrong' side of the road looked just too daunting, but I had to drive to go to the weekly meetings. So I had a few practice runs with my husband and off I went to sew! This is just to show how important quilting was - and is - for me.

We made quilts for ourselves, for our friends and family, and for hospitals and retirement homes. We also had 2 exhibitions.

This quilt is a small friendship quilt. I sewed all the blocks by hand, and my friends each signed one of them. All the blocks are 5 inch blocks. It hangs in my bedroom and I have to smile every time I pass it... :-)