Pink Beauty

It's August and it means it's time for the cutest quilt show of the year - the Pets on Quilts show over at  Lily Pad Quilting. I still don't have a pet to show, so I'm taking part in the Pet-Themed Quilt category.

It's a horse, and she's called Pink Beauty - all lovely and romantic and even with a little bobbin in her hair to mark the occasion.

She's one of my curved piecing workshop samples that I decided to finish and quilt, because I had some triangles meant for a different quilt (which is still in progress) but cut to a wrong size. When I stitched them together into squares it turned out they work well with this portrait (especially the background fabric) and there were just enough to form a border (I only had to add a little strip to the portrait to make the maths work).

Here's a close-up, you can see the quilting in the lightest part. The main feature of the quilt is, of course, the mane, which is made of knitting yarn stitched into the seam and then plaited (she can change hair dos if she wants to).

I used my favourite variegated YLI thread to quilt Lori Kennedy's square flowers in the border squares:

Another Lori Kennedy's pattern, Dizzy Daisy, was used in the background, but you can hardly see it for the fabric pattern:

There it is - simple, but bright and happy, the way I like it!

So now, do pop over to lily Pad Quilting and check out all the furry and feathery cuteness in the show.

Linking up to:
Pets on Quilts at Lily Pad Quilting
Off the Wall Friday at Creations by Nina-Marie
Finished or Not Friday at Busy Hands Quilts