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Once Upon a Time–Art Quilt

October 24, 2014 by persimondreams 13 Comments

The first quilt I’m entering in the Fall of 2014 Blogger’s Quilt Festival

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is one of my very own personal favorites – Once Upon A Time. I’ve shown this quilt off on my blog before but never during a Festival.  I am so proud of this piece I felt it deserved some time in the online festival. IMG_0528 The story behind the quilt … In 2013, I worked on both the Aurifil Designer Block of the Month and the Bungalow Quilting and Yarn’s 2013 Paper Piecing Fairy Tale Block of the Month Quilt Along.  I decided right away that I would work in the same fabrics for the blocks of both.  This way – when I was done, I could combine them all into one big, unique, fun quilt! 10737805_10152501675057672_963875070_o photo taken by Karmen Lindner Photography 12 Aurifil blocks (including one completely hand stitched), 20 paper pieced fairy tale blocks (I decided to leave 2 out of the quilt), and a year and a half later – my quilt, “Once Upon a Time…” is finished! fairy tale close up I sent my quilt top to Marcia Wachuta of Marcia’s Crafty Sewing and Quilting to quilt it with the instructions that I wanted ‘fairytale whimsy’ mixed with tradition.  I also wanted the words “Once Upon a Time” stitched into the top and the words “and they lived Happily Ever After” stitched into the bottom.  Marcia did a fabulous job of fulfilling my request! IMG_0493 I always have a hard time deciding which category to put my quilts into.  I finally decided that I’m going to enter this one into art quilt. I feel this is not a traditional quilt in the sense of the mixture of traditional blocks with the fairy tale blocks.  I used three different fabrics from the same Laura Gunn Edges line interchangeably as my background fabrics to bring the 32 blocks together in a haphazard crazy way that makes you see something new every time you look at this one.  I do belie it’s truly a piece of art that will keep me warm and cozy at night! Quilt Stats Name: Once Upon a Time
Finished Size: 82" x 99"
Machine Pieced: Me, Kim Lapacek
Machine Quilted: Marcia Wachuta, Marcia’s Crafty Sewing & Quilting
Category Entered: Scrappy
Awards Won: 
Viewer’s Choice at ‘For the Love of Quilts’ show in Belleville, WI 2014
Accepted and Shown at the Dubuque, Iowa AQS Show in the Bad Ass Quilter Society Exhibit 10746954_10152501675607672_918314145_o photo taken by Karmen Lindner Photography So here it is (next to my Tula Pink City Sampler)!  This was definitely a labor of love.  I enjoy things that are quick and easy but I adding in a crazy challenge here and there – like paper piecing 20 Fairy Tale blocks and mixing them in with traditional blocks – makes life a little more interesting! If you love it too…be sure to head over and Nominate it for ‘Viewer’s Choice’.

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  1. Elita@Busy Needle Quilting says

    October 24, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    Oh, you are braver than I to mix the techniques but well done! 🙂

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  2. Cathy says

    October 24, 2014 at 5:48 pm

    Just lovely! What a wonderful quilt!

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  3. Shannon says

    October 24, 2014 at 9:54 pm

    This is so fun! I love all the bright colors and prints!

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  4. Az álmok valóra válnak says

    October 24, 2014 at 10:17 pm

    beautiful quilt work

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  5. Corinnea says

    October 25, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    Crazy, spectacular!

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  6. Teresa Duryea Wong says

    October 27, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    Love your story. Beautiful quilt.

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  7. Nancy says

    October 27, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    You always do such unique designs!

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  8. Pauline Perry says

    October 27, 2014 at 2:35 pm

    Kim your quilts are AWESOME!! I love your Once Upon a TIme quilt it's gorgeous and I really enjoyed reading about how you made it – it really is beautiful. I also LOVE your Tula Pink City Sampler too – her fabric is so fabulous and the colours too – your arrangement is really really lovely. These are two of my favourite quilts and I have pinned them onto my Favourite Quilts Pinterest Board. Good luck with the Bloggers Quilt Festival.
    Pauline

    perry94022 at hotmail dot com

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  9. Melissa says

    October 28, 2014 at 4:22 pm

    So gorgeous! I love how you always make the most creative quilts!

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  10. Kate says

    October 29, 2014 at 1:04 am

    Very creative. The red and brown frame the rest of the quilt beautifully and really makes the center blocks shine.

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  11. audrey says

    October 30, 2014 at 6:54 am

    What a creative quilt. Wish I could see this one in person.:)

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  12. dq says

    October 31, 2014 at 3:05 am

    This is a major "I Spy" quilt. There is so much to look at. It will take some time to study it.

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  13. Cille says

    November 1, 2014 at 7:39 pm

    Great quilt 🙂 my favourite art quilt definately…

    Reply

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