Tag: Lone Star

Broken Star Finished

Broken Star

Broken Star Finished

General Info

Start Date 7 July, 2015
Finish Date 22 July, 2015
Status Completed
Size 24 1/2″ square
Pattern My Own Design
What it’s for Canberra Modern Quilt Guild Modern Takes on Traditional Challenge for the Canberra Quilt and Craft Fair 2015
Batting Two layers bleached cotton.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

The Canberra Modern Quilt Guild sponsored a challenge for our display at the Canberra Craft and Quilt Fair in August 2015. The theme was a monochrome (black, white and gray) “Modern Traditional” mini quilt 24″ square. I used QuiltSmart’s Little Lone Star fusible interfacing to make scrappy gradient lone star blades.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

I drew a full star out using the Clover water erasable pen. I used two layers of bleached cotton batting. The basket weave fill is based on Margaret Solomon Gunn’s grid based fills article in Machine Quilting Unlimited July 2015.

White/black Gutterman 50 wt cotton thread and dove gray Rasant cotton poly thread for basket weave fill.

Progress Pictures

 

Broken Star interfacing

Interfacing used to make the star blade.


Broken Star

Finished star blade.


Broken Star block

Broken Star block.


Broken Star Quilt Top

Broken Star Quilt Top


Broken Star - straight line quilting

Straight line quilting done on star.


Broken Star - star quilted

Basket weave fill in star.


Broken Star - filler

White background filler quilting.


Broken Star - quilted

Quilting done before blocking.

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra Exhibition

Star of India

General Info

Start Date  Mar 3, 2012
Finish Date  Oct 12, 2013
Status  Finished
Size  87.5″ square
Pattern  Star Sapphire by Jinny Beyer
What it’s for  For me.
Batting Matilda’s Own Cotton/Poly hi-loft batting.

Shows

Entered and shown in the 2013 Braidwood Quilt Event.
Won first prize for Contemporary Patchwork and Quilting at the 2014 Royal Canberra Show.
Won 2nd place in Bed Quilts (non-professional) and Excellence in Machine Quilting (domestic) at the Canberra Quilters Exhibition 2014.
Shown at Australian Machine Quilters Festival 2014
Shown at Australasian Quilt Convention 2015 as a “Best of the Best” representing the ACT

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Begun in a Lone Star class taught by Sue at Rosemont Patchwork Shop in Tugerranong.

I consider this quilt to be my “thesis”, graduating from a beginning to intermediate quilter.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted in the ditch with YLI invisible thread (clear). Star is quilted in Signature Variegated thread in blue/green 40wt cotton. Feathers in Gutterman 50wt cotton, micro stipples in Rasant. Rest of quilt in Gutterman and Signature. Outer border quilted with Sew Art smoke invisible thread and the Bottom Line poly thread in the bobbin.
First quilt using “show blocking” technique before squaring and binding. Very effective.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra Exhibition

On display at the Canberra Quilters Exhibition

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Awards Selfie

#QuiltSelfie

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Canberra show first prize

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Braidwood

On display at the Braidwood Quilt Event

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - blocking The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Quilting done

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - feather quilting

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Star quilting

“Paisley” or shell quilting on centre star.

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Quilt top

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - centre The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Star

Pinning the diamond rows together.

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - lone star diamonds

The Salty Quilter - Star of India - piecing diamond rows The Salty Quilter - Star of India - Label