Festival of Quilts pictures #2

Let's start this off with a bang, I think this was my favourite quilt:

Absolutely stunning!

And my second favourite:

The photo doesn't do it justice at all!

I also love-love-loved this one. Under the sea scenes have a tendancy to be all bright turquises and oranges, which is my favourite colour mix, but what I loved about this one was it's muted and realistic colours, and that totally doesn't lend itself to photographing well:

Speaking of orange and turquoise, this one is simple in its design, but my favourite colour mix, and some lovely quilting:

And then a few more that just caught my eye:

...and a close-up of the quilting on that one:

Lellephaaaaaaaaaaaaant!!!:

My mum's favourite (with her next to it!):

And one that's given her inspiration for a stash of white and blacks that she's had for a while:

And the best bit, my haul!



So here we have:

A2 cutting mat £12.95

3.5x12 ruler £11.95

Glue £4.50

Masking tape £1.75

Red and white guttermann thread (about) £5

2 pieces of template plastic £1.30 per sheet

Bundle of 4 FQs for £6 (more beautiful in real life!)

Curved safety pins £3.95

4m peach with yellow spots, £8!!!

2m pale blue, £3!!!

Heart hangers, 5" wide were £2.75 each, 7" wide was £3.60

FQ pale blue with toys, £1!!!

Pack of scraps (quite substantial ones, mind) £4.50!!!

Measuring guage £3.95

I could have bought so much more, I think I was quite a good girl really! The big pieces of fabric are to make more dresses for Dress a girl around the world, and the baby fabric is the first of several FQs to make more bags for Beads of Courage.

A closer look at the scraps:

...and at the FQ bundle:

 

I see these being made into little clutch purses or cosmetic bags.

So there we have it, over for another year :( I enjoyed it so much though, I am thinking of going to another, smaller one, like Harrogate or Chilford/Duxford.