Blogger's quilt festival - Improv leaves

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Blogger's Quilt Festival time!!! Love this Festival and so grateful for Amy @ AmysCreativeSide.com HERE for hosting it. This year I decided to go for it. I know my photos are not great but I so loved doing this project. This is a leaf diptych I made for a Christmas present for one of my sisters.  Please excuse the salmon colored wall behind! :(
 

I am going to enter this in the Art Quilt category HERE. I hope it is allowed to enter them together since they are meant to be together. Each part measures approx. 17"x 20".  Batik fabric used for all the components of the leaves. FMQing throughout on home machine. The entire project was seamed together (no applique) as free form improv piecing. I really don't like that salmon wall back there! Facing turned backing.

 
Up close quilting
 
 
I wish I would have taken better photos or I wish I knew how to use my new desktop to edit the photos but alas.... I am just going for it!

Please check out the Festival and see all the amazing quilts.

Comments

Jean said…
They are really pretty. I love them!
May 16, 2014 at 3:32 PM
Sharon said…
Great art quilt! I always like leaves in designs
May 16, 2014 at 5:28 PM
Val's Quilting Studio said…
Your stitching is the perfect accent for the leaves!! LOVE IT!
May 17, 2014 at 7:45 AM
What Comes Next? said…
these are great! I want to reach out and touch them, feel that amazing texture that you quilted in!
May 17, 2014 at 10:29 AM
Unknown said…
Love your colours!
May 17, 2014 at 1:10 PM
Gosia @ Quilts My Way said…
Great idea, Kris!!! I love that design.
May 17, 2014 at 4:31 PM
CitricSugar said…
Gosh, these are pretty! Beautiful stitching.
May 18, 2014 at 12:19 AM
Lorna McMahon said…
Wow! Improve pieced? You sure did an amazing job of that. And the quilting is such a compliment to the designs. What works of art! Very nice!
May 18, 2014 at 7:44 AM
quilthexle said…
Beautiful - and I love how you quilted them!
May 19, 2014 at 3:23 AM
Vickie said…
The quilting is perfect for this piece. Wonderful !
May 19, 2014 at 9:40 AM
Jen said…
These are so neat! Your quilting is fantastic!
May 19, 2014 at 5:33 PM
Hilary Florence said…
Lovely shapes and I like the way you change the quilting with each one. And I love the neutral colour scheme
May 20, 2014 at 3:42 AM
Ольга Романив said…
Мне очень нравится! Супер!!!
May 22, 2014 at 5:43 AM
the zen quilter said…
I like this - it's quiet but lovely.
May 24, 2014 at 7:25 PM
LA Paylor said…
oh aren't these nice, peaceful feel to them!
Leeanna Paylor Not Afraid of Color! lapaylor.blogspot.com
May 28, 2014 at 11:09 PM
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