Nothing like waiting till the very last minute but I finally chose a quilt to show in Amy’s fabulous online Quilt Festival. I’ve shown this baby quilt on my blog before, but decided to show it again for the Festival. It was hand pieced and machine quilted and is made of stars along with embroidered hexagons for a baby who was born in April 2009. I used 1″ diamonds and 2″ hexagons from the Inklingo #1 collection.
I learned that quilting right over embroidered blocks does not distort or take away from the embroidery at all. Quilting over the blocks with embroidery helps the quilt hold up to repeated washings, I think. We saw the baby quilt after it had been in use for 8 months and it looked just as good as new.
The above picture isn’t great, but is the only one I have of it quilted. This picture was taken before it was quilted.
Make yourself a coffee or a cup of tea and go over to the list of Festival participants here and enjoy! There are some lovely quilts to be seen.
Quilt Obsession 
What a lovely quilt….I really like the addition of the butterflies.
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It’s so pretty!!
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Oh, this is so pretty. Love the fabrics, love the design, love the quilting… love it all!
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I loved watching the progress of this baby quilt Cathi it is just so lovely…
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How beautiful this quilt is! I love the embroidered butterflies!
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What a gorgeous quilt! I bet it is loved by its little owner.
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A Really beautiful quilt Cathi
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Such a sweet quilt! I love it!
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Hi Cathi,
I am glad you decided to show this quilt again – I actually don’t remember seeing it. It is soooooo cute, and that is a perfect quilt for duckie there… 🙂
It’s wonderful to hear from you – I trust that your hands are feeling better?
Have a lovely weekend.
Hugs.
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I like this quilt–it’s one of the loveliest baby quilts I’ve ever seen.
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I love this little butterfly quilt — the combination of the embroidery with the stars is perfect, and I love the colors you selected.
I’m all about hand embroidery on quilts, and you’ve just given me a new idea for a setting. THANKS!
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This is so pretty and so sweet! I’m glad you mentioned the size of the blocks… if you had not, I would not have guessed that they were so tiny! What intricate work… I mean… PLAY! : )
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It is a very beautiful quilt – thanks for sharing!
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I think you picked the right quilt, this is very pretty!
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Loved your quilt the first time and am in love with it again! That is a good tip about quilting over the embroidery.
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The quilt is so sweet en pretty! Thanks for showing it again!
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great quilt.
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lovely quilt–the embroidered hexagons are such a nice addition. also love your blue and white star quilt in the header. very nice work and thanks for sharing
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