Tag: Star

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Finished

Sunny Stars

General Info

Start Date  Apr 7, 2011
Finish Date  May 1, 2011
Status  Finished
Size  56″ x 70″
Pattern  Sunny Stars (from magazine)
What it’s for  Gift for my sister-in-law
Batting  Matilda’s Own 100% cotton batting

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Used a kit from the Fat Quarter Shop with “Everything But the Kitchen Sink” 1930’s reproduction fabric. The kit had tons of fabric, probably 30% more than I actually needed, so I got lots of scraps.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Quilted flowers in the four patch blocks with Mettler 12wt variegated thread “Easter Egg” with 90 topstitch needle. Thread left a lot of lint in machine. Quilted leaves in white sashsing, large flower in yellow cornerstones going into yellow diagonal corners on sashing, vines on solid green border, looped “l’s” on white border and flowers in green print border all with Gutterman 100% cotton 50wt thread.

Progress Pictures

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Sashing quilting

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Block quilting

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Quilt on my machine

The moment I figured out the maximum size I could quilt with my Bernette.

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Block layout

The Salty Quilter - Sunny Stars - Piecing the quilt with my helper bulldog

Sarah the Bulldog being very helpful.

 

The Salty Quliter - Bright Star

Bright Star

General Info

Start Date  Apr 23, 2010
Finish Date  Aug 1, 2010
Status  Finished
Size  42″ square
Pattern  Bright Star
What it’s for Gift for baby Rose
Batting  Sew Easy cotton batting.

Quilt Top Notes/Techniques

Flying geese templates for sawtooth stars were too small so used “Square in a Square” ruler to create them.  Also used ruler to create half diamond sections for centre star blocks.  Because the bias was opposite of normal, interesting patterns were created once washed.

Quilting Notes/Techniques

Ditch quilted around stars using walking foot.  Walking foot stars in borders.  Lots of turning the quilt.  Used Sew Easy cotton batting from spotlight.  Lots of fuzzies and bearding while quilting.  Had to pre-wash batting.

Progress Pictures