I love gifts. I love receiving them, and I really love giving them, especially quilty ones! Last year I wanted to give a good friend an awesome gift. And of course it had to be quilted. After brainstorming for awhile and looking online, I came up w/the idea for the best gift ever!
I came across Janeen at
Quilt Art Designs who makes fabulous
paper pieced patterns. I sent her a photo and asked if she could turn it into a paper pieced pattern. She absolutely could, and did!
This is the photo I sent. It’s a pic of my friend’s beloved classic bronco, whom he dubbed Gossamer.
This is the pattern she made.
Now all I had left to do was learn the fine art of paper piecing.
I enlisted the help of my good friend and paper-piecer extraordinaire, Sue! And for the next 5 weeks, I spent approximately 5 hrs each Thursday making
Gossamer. You can read about in
this post.
And this is Gossamer!
I was so very pleased w/how he turned out so you can imagine how I felt when I found out he got an award at the Arizona Quilters Guild Quilt Show! Yep! He got Honorable Mention! AND it was my first time entering an actual show! Can you say ECSTATIC?! You can read all about it in this post.
Gossamer measures 22″ x 22″ and is entered in the Small Quilt Category. If he tickles your fancy as much as he tickles mine, I’d be over the moon if you vote for him! Thank you!
This is my second time participating in the Bloggers Quilt Festival. My first time was Fall of 2014. You can read about that in this post. A big shout out to Amy Ellis of Amy’s Creative Side for putting this lovely festival together! And huge thanks to the sponsors too for the fabulous prizes!
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I love that quilt. I may have to send a picture to that resource. Love you Zenia!!
Oh my goodness! This quilt is amazing! I am astounded that this was your first foray into paper-piecing.
This is quite a challenge to choose as your first paper piecing project and the result is amazing!
Congratulations on creating such an amazing tribute to your friend's Bronco. May your love of paper-piecing continue!
You rock!!
Hi Zenia! You made amazing art quilt! I love paper piecing and I know how much work and concentration it takes. You had a great idea to ask pattern for your photo. x Teje
Great art quilt – and your paper piecing skills are wonderful.
This is a winner for sure! I'm totally amazed by this!
What an ambitious project for your first attempt at paper piecing! You did an amazing job, Zenia! Congratulations!
Wow Zenia! What wonderful art piece for your first time paper piecing! Congrats on an Honorable Mention in your first show too – thanks for sharing Gossamer on Midweek Makers
Such an ambitious project for first time paper piecing! I hope you enjoy many other paper piecing projects in the future because it looks like you really took to it. Gossamer definitely tickles my fancy!
Such an ambitious project for first time paper piecing! I hope you enjoy many other paper piecing projects in the future because it looks like you really took to it. Gossamer definitely tickles my fancy!
What a fun quilt! Congrats on the ribbon.
Yeah, I really like this one.
Good to see this beauty again. Good luck!
Wonderful!
How fun! Nice job.
OMG! Fantastic!
WOW! This is PAPER PIECED? Amazing.
WOW! This is PAPER PIECED? Amazing.
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Great job, hope you get another ribbon!
That is such an amazing and special quilt! You really captured the spirit of the Bronco.