Tag: Lone Star

Broken Star

July 7, 2015

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

Interfacing used to make the star blade.

Finished star blade.

Broken Star block.

Broken Star Quilt Top

Straight line quilting done on star.

Basket weave fill in star.

White background filler quilting.

Quilting done before blocking.

Star of India

October 12, 2013

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.