My Wonky Stars

This quilt was months in the making! I sent red and aqua fabric scraps along with Kona white for the background off to 11 Bees from the Moody Blues 2 Bee and asked them to make wonky stars. Any kind of wonky stars they wanted in any size and more than one if they wished. Let me tell you those girls got creative! I loved each and every star I got back and only had to make a few more to get enough to make the quilt. Here are all the blocks I received: 

Wonky Star Blocks

I laid out all the blocks on my design wall in a layout I liked. Then moved them into loose rows so that I could add more Kona white to each in order to make larger blocks and then make those blocks into rows.

Here are all the blocks put all together and ready to quilt

When I was putting the quilt together I knew exactly how I wanted to quilt the white areas. The stars, well, not so much! I wanted to do swirls with flowing tails so the stars would look like they were floating across the quilt.

Here it is all quilted up

And all finished with binding

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Mom's quilt

So here it is! I finally started a Blog.... haha! It was only a matter of time!

So my first post will be about the quilt I just quilted for my mom. She sent it to me a little while back and I finally got it on the machine and started quilting it in between regular sewing, training for a 1/2 marathon, and everything else.

So about the quilt, she said it was called Trip Around the World and she used a bunch of pretty batiks. She did a great job in picking out the colors and the sewing of all these squares! I quilted it in an allover, freehand "Hooked Feathers" in Signature Cotton Thread Baguette. I chalked all my spines on each pass then quilted the spine and then the feathers down one side and then on the other. It was fun to do, although time consuming and a bit nerve wracking because I'd never done a quilt that big with those feathers. I think it came out great! She does, too! She received it back the other day and loves it!

All done!

One corner

Part of the back

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