Question is how does one decide its their best quilt? I made 2 quilts for my grands that I thought were well umm not my best .. but they loved em. Same with a 10 minute block quilt that I made for a good friend, she loved it. Time ? depends on if one has all the time in the world to spend on it ..
I guess the old saying: beauty is in the eye of the beholder is so true ...

After all you said u did great

This is about what we consider OUR best. You decide what is your best.

Quilt show BOM a few year ago.
 

This quilt was definitely my most time consuming but I enjoyed making it.

Your quilt is beautiful, I can see that you put alot of hard work into, it will be treasured for for ever.

Snooze2978 your quilt is a real stunner! Can't decide whethe it's because of your fabric choices or the perfectly designed quilting stitches - must be both!

Your quilt is lovely! This type of quilt is in my bucket list. Was it needle turned applique??

What a beautiful quilt show. Thanks everyone.

Like I told you, this needed to be here. I'm glad you decided to post it.

You have entered it into a quilt show (or many) right? It would definitely win a blue ribbon, maybe even best of show ribbon! It is amazing.

Beautiful! All of them! Love the one for your son's wedding gift.

Bailey this is an awesome quilt and makes me want to try a OBW, maybe using horses instead of the jungle animals. The animal appliques make it so unique and the blocks are mind blowing.

Thanks for starting this thread! What a great idea!

Gorgeous quilts everyone! :)

In my opinion the Woodland Creatures quilt by Rosemary ________ was (is) my most challenging quilt. I can't begin to tell you how many hours I have put into this quilt. I still have one side of the border to quilt before it is finished. The quilting has taken me longer to do than the applique, which is fusible applique.Sorry the photo is such poor quality.

Beautiful!! That would be a wonderful addition to a cabin...or my living room :D

What a wonderful quilt show I have attended while eating my lunch today! Thanks everyone!

The appliqued animals in the bottom right corner take your OBW out of the ordinary and make it STUNNING!

It's beautiful - and very unusual to see autumn colors in a Baltimore-style quilt. Nice work.

Stunning Quilt
 

My quilt I made for a fireworks quilt challenge titled, " Ooooh, An Eight Break Snail Shell", is my best work so far. The pattern is by Pat Wolfe called "Circle of Fire". She created one circle and I made them different sizes and colors. Six are paper pieced and range in size from 8.5" to 19" in diameter pieced. The two smallest are 7.5" & 6" diameter and they are fused. The quilting lines extend out further on all circles to expand each break to a larger area covered by stitching. Each star is made from 8 diamonds. Two pie shaped triangles are sewn to the diamond to form 1/8 of the circle. The dark gray/black background fabric I chose, also had a subtle snail (spiral) print on it in various dark values of gray. I fmq on my domestic machine. I originally was going to make it in sections and then sew it together, but decided partway through to sew the whole top together and then fmq it. I used metallic, polyester and silk threads for quilting. Finished size is 63" X 74". It took me about 6 months to make. I took First Place in the Quilt Challenge and People's Choice for the Art Show at the Pyrotechnic Guild International Convention in 2010.

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Oh, I love your quilt. Did you pick out your fabrics before or after you started making the stars? I'd think that choosing what color fabrics to use in each star would gobble up a lot of time.

I feel like I have just made a visit to a wonderful quilt museum with quilts all done by my best quilting friends! This is being a wonderful thread! Thank you to everyone who has posted photos.

Lynda - so sorry for you loss. That is a gorgeous quilt. I know you're proud. I would love to do one similar some day!

This is a beautiful quilt. I love your colors and fabric selection.

I am quite sure - Stunning is an understatement! I am mezmorized by your OBW. I am awestruck. You can be very proud of it!

This is the quilt I like the most. It took 5 month from start to finish. I didn`t use a pattern, just sewing and see, what would fit. You could say: The path is the goal.

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They are all stunning!!!...My quilts are pitiful in comparison...lol...

beautiful quilt! Great job!

Your mother would be SO proud! What a special memory!!

I've always wanted to do a quilt like this. Truly beautiful!!

What a lovely quilt show...so much fun...thanks for showing us...each one is absolutely beautiful..they truly look like show quilts!

[ATTACH=CONFIG]387305[/ATTACH]I guess my favorite of all time is the Crazy Quilt that I made about six years ago. Probably because I chose all the fabrics and the embroidery designs and did some of the decorative stitches myself. I took me about two months to make it.
The backing is a very light weight black courdory that already had red embroidered roses on it. That was such a great "find" when I went to the fabric store!!

Outstandingly beautiful - love the colors and the patterns made by each card-trick! Wow! Did you hand or machine applique the card-tricks onto the background fabric?

Thanks Jan!
The cards were not appliquéd to the background - they are all (machine) pieced blocks . the quilting may give an illusion of the cards being raised slightly from the background.

Your quilt is beautiful and the quilting is out of this world. Awesome JOB!!

thank you, ladies for sharing your amazing work!!

Sure is pretty; I make Wedding Ring Quilts; I have tried all the patterns out there; the best that I have found is the Flynn Pattern with cutting the end triangles on the bias(thats the secret) to fitting the rings together easily. So, now you know--Shar cuts the ends on the bias but uses individual squares for the rings and Flynn uses a strip method for quick cutting of the rings and even though you have to go back and restitch each square to a small angle; to me its faster than individually sewing each block. No matter how many Wedding Ring Quilts I have made they all take about the same amount of time 2 to 3 months just for the top. I tried the ironing ring method and it seemed to tideous to me. I have even had my DH pin my pieces as I sewed and its still took 2 to 3 months. But its a quilt worth doing. The last one I did; I bought tone on tone white at Wal Mart for the background and used red and blue rings; I walked by one night to the kitchen and looked in and saw a glow coming from the sewing table, it was the white fabric. Wow, what a suprise. Any way I guess I am long winded. The main idea is to enjoy the process and have fun doing it. This is a great thread and so many beautiful quilts. Arn't we blessed to be able to know how to quilt and put miscl. fabric together and share with each other. Great Job --------(I wish I know how to put pictures in).

here ya go:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/qb-help...s-t168819.html

I think this is awesome

I am so impressed by all the beautiful quilts shown in this thread. The quilt I am most proud of is the one I made using Jinny Beyers' free pattern called Seaside Stars. I made it from fabrics I bought at a batiks factory in St. Lucia when my husband and I went on a Southern Caribbean Cruise for my 60th birthday. I thought this pattern would be perfect for my batiks, but didn't realize it had all those BIAS edges! I had to be extremely careful not to stretch everything out of shape! lol It took me about 2 months to make, and I love the way it turned out!!

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I am sitting here looking at all these incredible quilts (Snooze2978's gets my vote for the best of the best,) ooh-ing and aah-ing at every image. My DH started to wonder what I was looking at and I told him "quilt porn." It certainly is a not-so-guilty pleasure to drink in the fruits of the work of these amazing quilters.

Thanks so much to all of you for sharing.