Yeah! Blogger is finally working again! A big thank you to Amy for putting together this Quilt Festival! Such a wonderful event for all of us to share our quilts. If this is your first time here, WELCOME! I hope you like what you see. I am showing my Leftovers, it's what for dinner quilt I made this quilt in a class I took at the City Quilter in NYC. The class was about using all of your orphan blocks and adding fillers to make a quilt top. This type of quilt is not new to me, when I started quilting at 14, my first quilt was an orphan block quilt using all the blocks I had learned in a class I took back then. Then when I saw Victoria's Kitchen Sink quilt, I was inspired to make another all these MANY years later! This quilt was SO fun to put together, It was like a big puzzle. I learned how to do partial seams in the process. One of my favorite blocks is this toppling tree. And it gets the most press too! Some of the blocks were given to me by friends . . . Some I made just for this quilt, and some came from classes that I took where I only made the one block. I pieced the back with some mermaid fabric I was given. I really love a pieced back, kind of makes it two quilts in one! For the quilting, I used a variegated thread and stitched in the ditch. That was a bit of a puzzle too. I made it a game to see how far I could go twisting and turning before I ran into a seam I had already done. So that is my Leftovers quilt. I hope you all enjoy the Festival and thanks to Amy!
