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Blogger’s Quilt Festival: Icy Waters

The two quilts I’m showing for BQF this season are ones that my regular readers know well, so hopefully they don’t mind seeing them again!
For my “Modern” category entry, I’m sharing with you the cover quilt for my upcoming book, Paper Pieced Modern. This quilt is entitled Icy Waters and is meant to mimic chunks of ice breaking off of an iceberg into cold water.
It is a paper pieced pattern, made entirely from one block. I rotated and reflected the block, and played with color placement, in order to create a dynamic ombre.
The quilting was done by the fabulous Angela Walters – and her work is positively amazing! She did so much more than I expected. I love her work even more in person!!
You can read more about this quilt here. For now, way too many photos :)
Linking up to Amy’s Creative Side for Blogger’s Quilt Festival.

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Comments

  1. tirane93 says

    October 24, 2014 at 6:21 pm

    suh weeeet! the color fade thing is amazing and your quilting is top notch!

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  2. Shannon says

    October 24, 2014 at 9:47 pm

    This is really great- captures all the things I think of when I think “modern”: great style, great design, great color use, great quilting, and great negative space. Really wonderful.

    Reply
  3. made by ChrissieD says

    October 24, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    It’s stunning Amy – Chris :D

    Reply
  4. Kat says

    October 25, 2014 at 1:35 am

    The design is so sharp and dynamic, I love it!

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  5. Carla says

    October 25, 2014 at 2:45 am

    Stunning! What fabulous quilting too

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  6. Laurie Matthews says

    October 25, 2014 at 3:15 am

    One of my favorites- I will never tire of seeing it!

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  7. Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl says

    October 25, 2014 at 4:35 am

    I love the ombre gradient in this quilt; it is so striking and crisp! Good luck in the festival. :)

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  8. Vera says

    October 25, 2014 at 9:05 am

    It is fabulous! I don’t mind seeing it at all :)

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  9. Judy@Quilt Paradigm says

    October 25, 2014 at 10:52 am

    I could look at this quilt ALL day!! Never too many pictures ;) Your design is so pleasing to the eye and then add Angela’s quilting? What a spectacular team the two of you make!! Wiping drool off of my computer now ;)

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  10. Cille says

    October 25, 2014 at 1:16 pm

    It’s stunning. I thought of ice the second I saw the thumbnail. Spot on :)

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  11. QuiltCandy says

    October 25, 2014 at 2:26 pm

    This quilt is incredible and that quilting is just stunning – wow!

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  12. elpetittaller says

    October 25, 2014 at 9:49 pm

    I love love love this quilt! The design is amazing. It’s wonderful to see how you can play with the same block to make such an amazing effect. The quilting is absolutely stunning!

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  13. Lostinspace says

    October 26, 2014 at 1:11 am

    This is my favourite modern quilt of the Bloggers Quilt Festival, hard to believe it is all one block and the quilting is just like a snowflake under a microscope – absolutely perfect in every respect.

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  14. Sharon says

    October 26, 2014 at 3:12 am

    Wow. Spectacular quilt! Great design as well as use of color and negative space. And Angela’s quilting is just jaw-dropping. I love it! And Congrats on the book!

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  15. Poppyprint says

    October 27, 2014 at 8:04 pm

    I love it!! Gorgeous ombre effect and the quilting is fab.

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  16. Patti says

    October 27, 2014 at 10:14 pm

    Wow, this is a beauty, and perfectly quilted by the master!

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  17. Zenia Rene says

    October 28, 2014 at 5:23 am

    Icy Waters is STUNNING and named so appropriately! Good Providence!

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  18. Sandra Walker says

    October 28, 2014 at 1:46 pm

    Gobsmacked. Love everything about this quilt, even though it reminds me of my not-so-fave season, lol…but it’s my favourite colour, and just love the way your eye zips around and around, back and forth, and THEN Angela’s incredible quilting–I am in awe.

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  19. Nupur says

    October 28, 2014 at 3:27 pm

    Truly incredible quilt- this is a work of art.

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  20. Rebecka says

    October 28, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    WOW! Beautiful quilt. Love the colors, design and great quilting!! Perfect!

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  21. sonia says

    October 28, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    Love the pattern. It looks amazing and the quilting, well, what can I say? No wonder why it’s a cover of a book!

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  22. Natasha Renstead says

    October 29, 2014 at 3:08 am

    Spectacular! It’s truly spectacular!

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  23. thequiltedcat says

    October 29, 2014 at 6:25 pm

    Stunning! The block, the colors, the name, the quilting – I love it!

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  24. Jean says

    October 30, 2014 at 2:11 am

    Gorgeous! and the quilting is over the top beautiful!

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  25. verpa says

    October 30, 2014 at 4:25 pm

    Great colours, great gesign, great quilting. Love it!

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  26. Martine Kuciel says

    October 31, 2014 at 11:47 am

    superbe ensemble de couleurs ,très belle réalisation

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  27. Carrie Wikander says

    October 31, 2014 at 4:11 pm

    Absolutely adore this – love those blues and whites! Great design, thanks for sharing.

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  28. Zenia Rene says

    November 1, 2014 at 2:58 am

    And congrats on the book. I’ve never even attempted paper piecing, but I will when your book comes out!

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  29. Rene' says

    November 1, 2014 at 5:41 pm

    Truly incredible!!!!

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  30. Joanne Grimes says

    November 1, 2014 at 9:12 pm

    veeery niiice!

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  31. Afton Warrick says

    November 3, 2014 at 2:33 am

    Wowsers, what a beauty! What’s not to love? The quilting, the color/value shift, the abstraction, the dramatic solid fabrics, the precise paper-piecing — all incredible.

    Reply
  32. Sharon says

    November 4, 2014 at 3:51 pm

    The quilting just takes this quilt to another level. Amazing!

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  33. ipatchandquilt says

    November 9, 2014 at 7:36 am

    You won, you won, you won in the viewers choice!
    Absolutely best quilt in show if you ask me!!!
    congratulations,
    Esther

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  34. CapitolaQuilter says

    November 9, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    Congratulations on the win. Viewers know a good thing when the see it.

    Reply
  35. JanineMarie says

    November 9, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    Congratulations on your win in the Bloggers Quilt Festival! I love how you made such a complex quilt from one block!

    Reply
  36. Sharon says

    November 10, 2014 at 8:36 pm

    Congratulations on winning! ☺You already know that I love your quilt and quilting style!

    Reply
  37. Jane Kelly says

    February 2, 2015 at 5:10 am

    Hi Amy,
    I’m the Editor at Make Modern magazine and we’re doing a feature on the Blogger’s Quilt Festival and I was wondering if we might be able to include your quilt in a gallery feature.
    If you can email me it would be much appreciated.

    Jane

    Reply
  38. Cathy Stoddart says

    February 4, 2015 at 3:20 pm

    This is just a fabulous quilt and I am intrigued by by the fact that it uses only one basic block. Can’t wait to see the rest of the quilts from the book.

    Reply
  39. Rett Bata says

    January 3, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    Do you have the icy waters pattern in king size

    Reply

Trackbacks

  1. Kicking off the Paper Pieced Modern Blog Hop! - 13 Spools says:
    February 4, 2015 at 3:01 pm

    […] we’re going straight to the good stuff*. Aside from the two quilts I’ve already shown (Icy Waters here, and Tied Down here), each day will reveal a new project from Paper Pieced Modern, complete […]

    Reply
  2. Paper Pieced Modern Blog Hop says:
    February 16, 2015 at 9:26 pm

    […] Amy Garro:  Is it too predictable and  boring to say the cover quilt? That’s definitely it! Icy Waters.  We were having some difficulty squeezing everything into the page count, and seeing as it took […]

    Reply
  3. Goals, Goals, Goals Everywhere! | Quilt Musings says:
    April 1, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    […] A version of Icy Waters from Paper-Pieced Modern.  It is listed in the book as one of the more complicated quilts, and I […]

    Reply
  4. The Challenges of Pricing a Quilt - 13 Spools says:
    April 10, 2015 at 12:14 am

    […] the other hand, a quilt like Icy Waters (with my own custom design work and signature use of dynamic ombre, and the honor of being on the […]

    Reply
  5. 2015 Finish Along Q2 Finishes and Q3 Goals | Quilt Musings says:
    July 10, 2015 at 4:58 pm

    […] A version of Icy Waters from Paper Pieced […]

    Reply
  6. Maine Quilts 2015 | Night Quilter says:
    July 27, 2015 at 5:05 pm

    […] was fun to see some familiar patterns sewn up by local quilters. I saw the original Icy Waters by Amy Garro at QuiltCon, and spotted this one by Betsy Cannan from across the room. The Supernova quilt by […]

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  7. Alisa’s Icy Waters – Fickle Owl says:
    January 16, 2017 at 8:07 pm

    […] particular quilt was inspired by Amy Garro’s Icy Waters, found on 13spools.com.  If you ever want to see some spectacular modern quilting, head by her […]

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