vote for me? please?

The voting has begun in the Bloggers Quilt festival. Go here to see the quilts. Go here to cast your votes. My entry is #93 and is suitable for these categories:
Throw Quilt
or
Pieced Quilt
or
Home Machine Quilted

Thanks!

Bloggers' Quilt Festival Spring 2012

Whew! I can enter/post to the Bloggers' Quilt Festival! Yay!

I usually am too wrapped up in the day job to get a post, but not this time!

I want to feature my Summer Wind quilt:

 I completed this last summer. It is 68" square, I love working in the 60's-70's size!

This quilt started as an experiment in color placement and using scraps from other projects.

Most of the fabrics were my own hand-dyed, mixed with batiks. I know a lot of people that really dislike batiks, but I love the rich, saturated colors. I love the way they glow!

Since this quilt was not originally earmarked for any specific purpose or gift, I felt free to experiment and push myself. So, I free-motion-quilted it in my dense doodles, and added feathers. Not the perfect, quilter-feathers (not good at that yet), but more realistic, sketched feathers. I was so happy with how they turned out.

The name comes from the Frank Sinatra song, Summer Wind. I love the song, and these lyrics:
 "The summer wind came blowin' in
From across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair
And walk with me".

I hope you enjoy seeing this quilt. You can see the list of participants here, as well as vote for your favorites. (If you were to vote for Summer Wind, I would be eternally grateful!)