Garden Maze Quilt - Bloggers Quilt Festival

I am sharing with you today a very special quilt that I created which was inspired from a picture of a wall in a magazine.  This quilt has many hours of work into it and I am excited to share it with you.

This quilt is called Garden Maze.  The green in it makes me think of a hedge maze.  Green is not usually my color that I go to but when I decided to see if I could make this quilt it was the largest piece of fabric in my stash, 3 yards.  It is a pretty green batik with leaves.  The white is Kona white.

When I started the quilt I made some squares of strips and quickly realized that it wasn't going to work how I planned.  The lines were not lining up and causing me a lot of stress.  I was able to, after much stress, cutting, adding, mumbling, and frustration, figure out how to make it all work.

I had the top finally completed in July and let it sit for a bit while I decided how to quilt it.  

In August I pulled it out again and set to quilting it.  I did a squiggle stitch in all of the white lines of the quilt.  This is quilted on a home sewing machine, a Singer.

I just popped in a couple audio books and went to town.  This took just over 14 hours to quilt it.  It was a bit tough to wrestle it through the machine, but thanks to spray basting it there was no shifting of fabrics as I shoved it through.  (Seriously, shoved!)

I am in love with this quilting ans so proud of how even the stitching is.  

I know, lots of pictures, but I can't help it.  

Following all the lines was not easy.

I backed it in a solid white and just love how the quilting really pops.  The design really stands out.  

Love all the quilting!

I bound it in a batik green which frames both the front and back so well.

Garden Maze 

63" x 64"

Batik green and Kona white

Pellon 100% cotton batting

Coats and Clark machine quilting thread

So in love with this quilt! 

I am entering this quilt in to Bloggers Quilt Festival in the Large Quilt Category.  I hemmed and hawed over where to place it.  I knew, though, that I had to enter it.  I am super proud of this quilt.  

Head over to Amy's Creative Side and check out all of the amazing quilts in the festival.