Bloggers Quilt Festival: Fall 2016 Large Quilt Category

It's time again for the Fall Bloggers Quilt Festival hosted by Amy Ellis of AmysCreativeSide. 

It wasn't hard to decide which quilt to enter, but it was a bit hard deciding which category it fit best in.  I finally decided that the Large Quilt Category fits best for my quilt, Lily Pad.

Lily Pond from the Back to Square One Quilt along designed by Judy Laquidara

  
The quilt was started in 2013 as part of the Back to Square One quilt along sponsored by Judy Laquidara of Patchwork Times.  The pattern is still posted on Judy's blog, but you'll have to search for the individual posts as she doesn't have this one on her patterns tab.  It took about two and half years to finish it.  Drama Teen early on said that the colors reminded her of a lily pond with the blues, greens and whites.  That's the name that stuck.  

Trudy Lindemann did the quilting using blue thread.  It looks like a whole cloth quilt from the back.  The quilt is 84" on each side. 

The quilt became a late Christmas present for the family that hosted a writing workshop DT attended in the summer of 2015.  DT "met" the oldest daughter while participating in an on line creative writing class.  Four of the girls from that class have meet weekly  using various on line meeting platforms since the fall of 2012.  The 2015 writing workshop was the first time three of them met face to face.  I tagged along as chaperone and chauffeur.  

It was a memorable trip.