As I’m sure you know it’s the Bloggers’ Quilt Festival over at Amy’s Creative Side. It’s wonderful to see the huge variety of quilts that have been entered and the talent in quilt-blogland is sooooo inspiring!
This is my offering.
I made it last Autumn. It was my was my first ‘real’ quilt and, although the design is very simple, it measure almost 90″ square and I quilted it with parallel straight lines (roughly) 1″ apart – which was a rather steep learning curve for a complete newbie with a Janome Sewist!
I’ve chosen this quilt because it was really the beginning of my quilting adventure. It was the quilt that persuaded me I love quilting and that with enthusiasm and practice anything is possible.

sonia
Lovely quilting! A simple yet amazing quilt. Congrats, looks beautiful!
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Jan
Your quilt is great, so simple, so bold.
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CitricSugar
It's lovely – simple but elegant.
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Allison
I enjoy hanging out at your blog and seeing each new project you stitch, so seeing your first quilt is a lot of fun! Thanks for sharing! :)
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grapes and hearts
Very elegant quilt! And I'm impressed it is your first! And it looks so neat! Good job!
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tusen
It's simple but effective. And impressive quilting, 90″ is a lot to quilt.
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Jutta
Wow, you are making the most beautiful quilts! Love the checkerboard one, simple and elegant. But also like the more colorfull ones. You are an artist!
thanks so much for visiting my blog and for your lovely comment on my one cloth – five ways, got me to visit you.
i like it here and am following you now with gfc. would be honored if you would like to follow back, but no hard feelings if not :-)
love
jutta
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Quilt+Bitch
So simple, but you have made it into a masterpiece. Love it.
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Kate
Great work! I bet the quilting looks fantastic!!
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Nita
beauty in simplicity!
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Quiltbenaco
Linee semplici danno l'effetto migliore!
Ciao
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Carla
Hi Janine. Thought I would say hi. I am in the Scrappy sew bee it group too. I just became your newest follower so I can see what you are up to. Have a great day
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Teresa Connolly
A lovely quilt bold and simple.
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Amy
Love this – so simple and effective and just the right two colours :) Well done!!
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Sharon-IN
I love the simplicity of this quilt!
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Rosa
Oh this is such a nice quilt. As much as I love bold colours and lots of wonky shapes I also love simple, no-nonsense and yet impressive quilts:-)
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Cynthia@aquilterbynight
Bold and simple… Classic! What a great first quilt.
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Maggie
Funny, janine, I just assumed you had been sewing forever!! This is a gorgeous quilt! it reminds me of the Shakers of New England and their classic colors. I love it.
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