Bloggers Quilt Festival - Eleanor's Quilt

I completely forgot when I first posted this, that I also turned the quilt into Eleanor' first Birthday cake, blogged here and here:

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I've joined the Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy. Pop over, check it out and browse through all the great quilts and their stories.

For my favourite completed quilt, I chose Eleanor's Quilt.

It's one of my favourites, plus is has some special meaning. I designed the quilt a long time before it was made, using Electric Quilt. Then, when Eleanor was on the way, I thought it'd be perfect for a girl's nursery.

It's made using only two different blocks, but by playing with the colouring, it creates a completely different effect. And the white bocks aren't pieced at all, just quilted in dark thread to give the appearance that they are, and a bit of a stained-glass window effect.

I've now used this technique in a number of quits, and intend to keep playing with the endless options for a while, so this quilt was really the start of something. While I've been designing all my own quilts for a while, this was the first in a different direction and something a bit 'me'.

But this quilt gave me an extra-special thrill, because it was the first quilt I had published:

It came out in Australian Patchwork and Quilting Vol16 No 11 last May, and I have my second quilt (Evening Indulgence) in the upcoming issue of Australian Quilters Companion (No 37, I think), due out in a few weeks.