My contest quilt is finally complete, I submitted it via FedEx at 6:20 p.m. on the day od the deadline, and found out less than I week later that I made it through the first round of judging! This is for the Benartex Piece, Love and Quilts contest, and it is made out of the blue colorway of Kitty Yoshida’s “City Girl” fabric line.

Naturally, I had a little help making the quilt. This is my “quilt warmer,” Maggy, taking care of things while I took a short break from hand quilting…

A detail of one of the flowers on the left side of the quilt…

Some of the bias hand applique…

The mitered borders, and hand applique…

My “flowers” at the top of the quilt…

More hexagons and flowers…

And last but not least….my quilt label on the back, complete with my new cool stamp from the Etsy shop, “Sweet Papery”…