Bloggers Quilt Festival 2012

I finished this quilt awhile back so there's been numerous pictures of this throughout my blog--this is not a new project!  'Be Thankful' just seemed like the right quilt to use as my first ever entry into Bloggers Quilt Festival.

Not so soft looking outside in direct sunlight

I bought a beautiful floral fabric back in 2008 that was the start of one of my infamous 'got to make a fabulous quilt out of this' stacks of fabric.  At some point, I realized this particular fabric stack belonged in a Pat Sloan pattern I'd been drooling over for years and the cutting began!  Ironic how I never did find a proper place for the original floral fabric in the quilt so it ended up being permanently booted from the project!  I tried so very hard, but it sincerely wanted to go join up with another quilt.....

Inside with the shadows shows off the quilting better

 The quilt is hand quilted in a light green thread throughout in a semi-freehand style.  Let's just say that my quilting lines would not please most quilt police and leave it at that.*wink  The interesting thing is that I'm starting to feel more and more comfortable with this look--kind of an organic, yet still very structured look.

Hand quilting makes the world go round.....

'Be Thankful' is a wonderfully glowy quilt in the right lighting, especially in the evening light that I often worked on the hand quilting.  This is a lighter, brighter look for this slightly primitive style than I'd ever attempted before.  It's definitely sparked an interest in me to 'lighten up' in all areas of my quilting!