"Postcards from the Garden"

I love to make and receive fabric postcards, I love to teach others to make fabric postcards.  So, when I received my little bundle of fat 1/8ths of Riley Blake's, "The Cottage Garden" from the

Modern Quilt Guild as the fabric to be used in their Spring Challenge, I knew just what I had to make.

A postcard quilt!  of course!  Debbie @ A Quilter's Table came up with the idea last year.  Check out her blog for the details. 

I changed mine up a bit, using ink to stamp postage related words on the postcard "backs" .  I had a piece of fabric that was covered with different antique looking postage stamps so I cut them out and appliqued them on too.  

I used a variegated Aurifil 50# thread in shades of white to medium grey #4060 (very nice).  The very subtle colour change in the thread gave the quilting an antique look.    I quilted it all in free-motion.  Continuous feathers diagonally through the postcard "backs" and straight lines through the "fronts" Love it so much!  It is now hanging in my kitchen.

A close-up of a few of the "postcards"
 

Hope you had a quilty day!  I sure did.  I had four of my MMQG guild mates join me at my house today and I showed them how to make fabric postcards.  What fun! (you can see a bit of  my postcard quilt hanging on the wall)

Dena's postcard

Anja's creation

Cathy is still working on her postcard

Shauna's creativity starting to take shape.