Day 30: Quilt You Are Proudest Of #GreatBritishQuilter 🇬🇧 We've made it, last day + thanks to @sarahashfordstudios + @verykerryberry for hosting. 👏🏽 I've been looking forward to sharing today's quilt, it's 2 years since I first shared it, so great to look back on this quilt today. 🏴🗽 The quilt I’m proudest of is my winning “English Woman in New York” quilt from the @QuiltAlliance Quilt Match challenge at Quilters Take Manhattan 2016. 🏴🗽 3 contenders, [me, @yoMaryFons and @aleedac] were challenged to take part in a Quilt Match in front of a live audience. I represented @NYCMetroMOD; my chosen team name was Quilty Spice + my team song was “Wannabe”; my team mate was Susan @EasyPiecing. 🏴🗽 We brought along 1 yard of background fabric + were challenged to design a quilt in 1 hour using supplied fabrics + glue. The winning quilt was judged by audience applause volume. My chosen fabric was an NYC Line By Line - Night fabric exclusive to @TheCityQuilter quilt store where I'd worked in Manhattan + my design was based on English elements (tea time, union flag, crown + tiara) to represent my homeland + the background NYC fabric to represent my then current home. 🏆 I was delighted to win with @Meg4Quilts announcing me 2016 Featherweight Champ Of The Quilt World + previous winner @AllieAller presenting me with the winning belt - now proudly on display in my sewing studio + sometimes accompanying me to quilting events – swipe through to see my winning happy dance. 🏆 I took the quilt pieces home + made them into a quilt, backed + bound with another City Quilter fabric, NYC Line By Line - Day. Now I’ve moved away from Manhattan, the quilt is a treasured memory, not only of my English roots but of my time in the city; working at the quilt store; being in NYC Metro MOD Quilters Guild; + working as a Quilt Alliance volunteer. 🏴🗽 #QuiltMatch #happydance #winnersbelt #featherweightchampofthequiltworld #QTM2016 #quiltalliance #quilterstakemanhattan #quilterstakemanhattan2016 #quiltdesign #applique #quilttop #quiltsofinstagram #QuiltySpice #thisisme #allaboutme #quilter #quilting #mbCD #madebyChrissieD (at Fashion Institute of Technology) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoVdYMdhIBW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v2jxpaxmqzx4