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My second Blogger's Quilt Festival Quilt is another baby quilt (you can see my first entry here).

Since it was for a girl - and I don't have any girls aside from me in my house - I made it extra girly. I mean, pink, flowers, and a ruffle from a pink lacy print? I'm pretty much only short a bow for maximum girliness.

 

I could tell right away that quilting this one would be a treat. I started by stitching in the ditch along the scalloped diamond edges, along with the diamonds in the background. I used a Frixion pen to mark the background diamonds, which you can see in this picture:

Then I went back and quilted the rest with light pink Sulky thread, working my way out. I quilted a flower with tons of petals in the center green diamond, which made a great texture, and bubbles over the polka dot fabric.





I decided to try quilting a football shape over the bird fabric, mimicking the shape of the leaves in that print. This actually ended up being my favorite part to quilt.



Then I quilted some loop de loops over the pink and cream dot. Over the floral section, I quilted radiating petals of varying lengths (I'm sure there's a more concise name for that!). It's always fun to stop and look at the back while you're going along - I used a low volume text fabric, which really let the quilting shine.



Love that texture.

And finally, you can see the orange peel design in the negative space. I think the unquilted section turned out beautifully; it added some interest to the large background.

To finish it off, a ruffle was the perfect touch for such a darling quilt. The old-fashioned lace print went perfectly.

There's something so special about the texture a good quilting pattern adds to a quilt.

You can read my original post about this quilt here.

And here are my previous Blogger's Quilt Festival Posts, just for fun:
Fall 2012
Spring 2012
Fall 2011

Linking up to Amy at BQF! This one is in the home machine quilted category, so it doesn't compete with my first entry.