Bloggers Quilt Festival: Sweet Lullaby Quilt

For those that may be visiting for the first time, Welcome!  For those of you that are familiar with SewCalGal, but may be wondering what is the Bloggers Quilt Festival, it is a really fun virtual quilt show hosted by Amy's Creative Side during Quilt Market, every Fall and Spring.  And, I'm participating by sharing my Sweet Lullaby Quilt today.

Sadly, my camera doesn't do a great job taking photos and it really shows with this quilt.  The yellow-green fabric in the borders and sashing is really a very soft yellow-green, that almost looks off white.  Still, I wanted to share this quilt with you today and tell you some insights on why I think it is so special.

First, this design is really very easy to make and I even posted a free tutorial for my Sweet Lullaby Quilt yesterday, should you want to make it, or make a version of this design.

I had fun stitching out the machine embroidery (ME) designs by Marjorie Busby.  Many of her designs allow for multiple colors of thread, but for the most part I opted to stitch these designs out in one or two colors.

I used Aurifil threads for piecing, machine embroidery (ME) and free-motion quilting.  And,  Aurifil stitched out beautifully from start to finish of this quilt without a single thread break!  Love it!

Marjorie has many wonderful machine embroidery (ME) designs that have the least number of jumps that I've ever seen!

For this Sweet Lullaby Quilt, I selected Marjorie's designs that I thought would work well with a baby quilt.

And, and I selected designs that I had AccuQuilt dies for, to cut the shapes (no scissor cutting of applique shapes for me).  But, while "you" could manually cut these shapes and use Marjorie's designs, the AccuQuilt pre-cuts really help make this project be fast and fun! 

I've now ordered the AccuQuilt GO! Sunbonnet Sue & Sam dies and look forward to using Marjories' designs with these dies too!

To clarify, Marjories designs are actually collections, where you get the shape digitized in several different embellished ME stitch designs. For example, her GO! Calico Cat collection has 4 different designs.  Her GO! Stars collection has 20 different designs!  And, every collection includes a PDF that provides insights on adhesives for applique' pre-cuts, stitch count per design, ME design size in inches and milimeters, number of thread colors per design, minimum hoop size per design, placement info and visual, where appropriate.  And, you can always ask questions and she is willing to help.

Marjorie is also adding more designs to her store, that work with AccuQuilt GO! pre-cuts, all the time! So, if you don't see a machine embroidery design for a die you are interested in, ask her, and there is  a good chance she'll have it released shortly.

I hope you like this Sweet Lullaby Quilt that I created with Marjorie's beautiful machine embroidery designs.  I think her designs really make this quilt be a very special baby quilt! And, it was truly so easy and fast to create.

As I mentioned that this quilt was made using AccuQuilt products, and I also created a tutorial for it, I also wanted to let you know that AccuQuilt will give you 22 Free patterns when you sign up for their email.  Just click the button below if you are interested in getting these free quilt patterns.

And, if you visit the "giveaway" page on my blog, you'll also find insights on various giveaways for AccuQuilt products too!

Amy's Blogger Quilt Festival starts today and continues thru November 4th.  I hope you'll visit this show and have fun seeing all the beautiful quilts entered.

Where you can find Marjorie Busby:
blog:  http://b-quilts.com/blog/
Store: http://shop.b-quilts.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/marjorie.busby