Friday, October 28, 2011

Cloud: Blogger's Quilt festival

''Cloud''



I had been contemplating what quilt I was really crazy about this past year, and had a hard time choosing one.  I nearly forgot about CLOUD, which has now been re-named, ''Lucky's Cloud''

At the time I was commissioned to make this quilt, the expecting mother only had CLOUD for a word inspiration... I thought that was pretty cool. Cloud.  Simple but yet so complex.. depending on the day, what color the could could look like... grey, purple, blue, yellow with sun light...  

I figured it had to have Lot's of puffy quilting, and movement. With of course a few stars just for good measure to dance and play in the clouds...

Why is it ''Lucky's Cloud''?  The wee babe has arrived, and HE, already has a nick name... Lucky.
Lucky is right.  I hope he has sweet dreams under his very own cloud. ;-)

This quilt just fell into place for me. No second thoughts or doubts, including the quilting. As much as I dislike white quilts, (I was terrified to get the white dirty with sewing machine grease or something)
I can see no other option for it.  smiles.  It's one of those quilts that make me smile, and I was happy to hand it over to it's new owner...

Thanks for stopping by.

40 comments:

  1. Lovely, Victoria! The quilting is wonderful I love the little random triangles:)

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  2. I love the quilting, too. And it's so nice and restful to see the white & pastels. Great job!

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  3. A lovely lively and tasteful quilt-the quilting is amazing.

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  4. Oh my gravy, Victoria! This quilt is just beautiful! The quilting on this piece is *amazing* time two!

    What a beautiful cloud! I so see the name. Love it!

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  5. So stunning and yes the white it had to be!!

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  6. Outstanding! I could look at the detail in this one all day long! Lots of little tiny surprises in the bits and color and the quilting.

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  7. That is amazing!!! And perfectly "cloudy"!!! :) Wow! So designs like that are just sitting in your head waiting for someone to unlock them with a word??? What a gift!!! And how awesome that you share it! :)

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  8. I love this quilt. I loved it when you were making it and blogged about it, and I still find it soothing to the eye, yet exciting to the mind. I love the randomness of the piecing and quilting, and the gentleness of the colors. It flows or maybe floats...like a cloud.

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  9. Beautiful work. The quilting really is the feature of this piece.

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  10. He will thank his Lucky stars to have such a quilt. Your unique feather design is what amazes me. Hard to believe it came so easily. Just Lucky, I guess!

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  11. Very pretty. Love the quilting!! You picked a good one.

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  12. The lucky babe who gets to sleep within the cloud. His name fits the gift.
    Beautiful work Victoria.

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  13. Wow! This is not like anything I have seen from you before. The colors are so peaceful. The quilting is devine. Love it.

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  14. I love that it resembles billowing clouds. The quilting is amazing and I really love the whole quilt.

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  15. Beautiful, From the name to the quilting and everything in between!!

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  16. Somehow I missed this one when it was first created. What a dreamy quilt - it is wonderful!

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  17. Wow, it is just beautiful, a perfect quilt, love the name too - Lucky indeed!

    x

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  18. This is such a beautiful quilt.... and it represents the cloud idea perfectly! Gorgeous!

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  19. Such fantastic quilting! And really, everything about this quilt is just great!

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  20. So very pretty! And your quilting is fantastic.

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  21. This quilt is just stunning, I love it!

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  22. How I love this quilt, V! Thanks for sharing it. The quilting is simply amazing... puffy feathers make me smile! I am keeping you in mind for monday night: wish I was there to give you a congratulations hug! xox (you'll do great!)

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  23. This is so beautiful Victoria, thank you for sharing it with us. I love it!

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  24. Greetings from Hungary. I love the pattern .. absztrak Staple the beautiful

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  25. Victoria, I absolutely love this quilt! It totally fits the "cloud" theme and is subtle and beautiful.

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  26. Oh my goodness, this is so BEAUTIFUL! What a pretty quilting job.

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  27. it is a beautiful quilt - I love the quilting, and the light and airiness feel to it! Regardless of any other reasons, he's a very lucky boy to get to sleep under this one!

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  28. I enjoyed seeing how you translated the word cloud into a quilt - good job! =) It looks fantastic!

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  29. What a lovely, lovely quilt! It makes me smile, too. Beautiful stars and accents out of wonderful fabrics and your quilting is exquisite. Thanks for sharing and have a great day

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  30. I have seen this quilt on your blog before but I am soooo glad to see it again! It is very beautiful.

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  31. yes, I admired it before, but still a beauty :-)

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  32. Gorgeous quilt! Thanks for sharing. :)

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  33. Perfectly lovely creation from the inspiration word. :)

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  34. Words do not do this quilt justice...I love it and I am so impressed that you came up with this on just a word...congratulations and thank you so much for sharing it with us.

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