Tuesday, 20 May 2014

World Map Quilts - Blogger's Quilt Festival



Hello all,

I am entering this quilt (these quilts) in the Blogger's Quilt Festival on Amy's Creative Side in the Original Design category. So please please VOTE FOR ME.

I originally wanted to make a whole world map quilt but realized it would be too big and I wouldn't be able to baste and quilt it. So I decided to make 2 quilts and split the world in half. (No, there is not political undertone here, not an intentional one anyway).

I ended up with one quilt showing the Western World, the Americas and Europe and the Eastern World with Russia and Asia. In case you are wondering, yes I am planning to try and create one world map with this design but I will have to work with much smaller pieces to make that work. The quilting is slightly different on them, the Western World has big wavy lines on it and I quuilted the eastern World in straight vertical lines.

I hope you like these quilts. I absolutely love them.





I have listed them in the shop https://www.etsy.com/shop/QuiltedBlissByNadine where you can see some more pictures of them. 

Lots of love, Nadine



16 comments:

  1. Very creative. Can't wait to see it in one piece, as well.

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  2. Very cool. I'm looking forward to seeing your version of the world all together!

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  3. Ok - that's awesome! Love the concept and execution!

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  4. they look great, the bold colours are striking. The squares would have to be quite small to fit the whole world on one quilt, I suppose.

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  5. Great idea, love what you did with the colours too.

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  6. That is really cool idea! Very creative and great use of color.

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  7. Wildly creative, and wonderful!

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  8. I like it a quilt! Beautifully! Original! Great!

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  9. How fun! This would be cool as a double sided quilt - western continents on the front and eastern continents on the back! I love how it is pixelated, but not hugely so. Nice work.

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  10. they are great! Love them :-)

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  11. I love it! I like how you converted an irregular world into a grid!

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  12. I love this! I have been scheming of a world map using triangles so I am super excited to see yours. I love map quilts so much! Love the idea of flipping it over and having the other half of the world.

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  13. What a fun quilt! Great idea and execution!

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  14. Very original idea - you can see what it is at a glance.

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  15. Neat and effective use of squares!

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  16. This is fabulous! What a wonderful concept. I am always amazed at how you think you've seen every type of quilt and then someone comes out with a really original new idea - well done Nadine!

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