It's about 80" square. The fabrics are primarily Notthing Hill with a few accent fabrics from Art Gallery (Pure Elements and Oval Elements). The back is made from a couple larger pieces of my favorite Notting Hill prints. The neutral is Kona Bone. The main quilting designs are swirls and pebbles. I chose to do the outer border in a combination of the two designs to tie it together. Adding the pebbles made quilting the narrow border easier as it gave me a filler to complete small spaces where a swirl wouldn't work well.
This is the most adventurous I've ever been on the actual quilting. I found these smaller swirls worked quite well on my domestic machine. I will definitely do this design again. It took most of my kid-free time last week, but was completely worth it. I'm glad I took the extra time on this particular quilt. It needed special quilting. As I mentioned in my last post, I plan to hang this with my guild's non-judged display at HMQS next month. All it needs is a sleeve and label and it's ready to go!
Tutorials for this quilt are located here and here. I do plan to write a tutorial down the road about piecing it all together, but that probably won't be for a while. With the nicer weather, I anticipate it will be a bit slower on the blog front. I know several people are creating their own star quilts inspired by this one. I'd love to see them! Please take a second to post them in my Flickr group or send me a couple pictures.
I really love this quilt. The quilting is wonderful too!
ReplyDeleteIt turned out so beautiful! The fabrics you chose go together so well! I've been hand quilting a 90x90 star quilt for almost 2 years now, and this is definitely inspiring me to get back to work on it!
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely finish!
ReplyDeleteSo awesome, Kati! I can see why you've been obsessed!
ReplyDeleteI adore this quilt. I haven't started to make my own yet, because I have to finish two or three others first, but oh, I will! And everytime I see another picture of it, I want to make it more and more.
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Stunning!
ReplyDeleteKati, it is stunning, and the quilting is perfect!!
ReplyDeleteThis is just wow!! The fabrics, the quilting, the pattern *swoon* :)
ReplyDeleteyou did such a beautiful job on this! love the fabrics and your quilting is so perfect for this piece.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is beautiful! And you did a great job on the quilting.
ReplyDeleteOh this is heavenly!!! I am so in love!!!
ReplyDeleteI would be like that that with this quilt too... it is awesome! Oh the work that went into it makes it even awesomer. (that is so a word:)
ReplyDeletegreat great job. I so want to make one!
Stunning quilt! The quilting is gorgeous on it!
ReplyDeleteOoh it's fab, love the star and that fabric combo with it.
ReplyDeleteMagnificent! Love the fabric, pattern, well everything really.
ReplyDeleteGreat color combo and the quilting is perfect.
ReplyDeleteWow it is absolutley beautiful - I'd be excited if I ever finished something like this too.
ReplyDeleteIt's fabulous! Wow! That's a work of art! Way to go!
ReplyDeleteI have to be brave and try out new quilting designs as well. Looks wonderful on the white space.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful!!!
ReplyDeleteSo pretty! I'm glad you are deciding to display it!
ReplyDeleteThis really turned out great!! Your quilting is awesome, love the added pebbles to the outer border!
ReplyDeleteSo beautiful! I really love the colours in this and the quilting is just perfect.
ReplyDeleteYou should be proud, it's great.
ReplyDeleteThis is so beautiful! I'm not surprised that you were obsessed by the project, I sure would be if it were mine.
ReplyDeleteThis is really fantastic! Much bigger than I'd realized, too. It'll be beautiful on a bed after you've shown it. :D
ReplyDeletegorgeous finish!!!
ReplyDeleteIt looks amazing! Just stunning! I love the quilting too :)
ReplyDeleteit's really magical Kati! LOVE the quilting on there! It's so so pretty. :)
ReplyDeleteit's simply stunning and the time you took for the detailed quilting really paid off! No wonder you were excited about finishing it up...
ReplyDeleteWonderful! Those Joel Dewberry prints are just happy to look at, but you made them a work of art. I love your quilting, and the fact that you did it all yourself. It looks like custom long arm work - and on such a huge quilt! I'll have to give those swirls a try - I love the texture.
ReplyDeleteSimply lovely. I couldn't believe that you did that on your machine instead of a long arm. Just goes to show that beautiful quilting can be done on all sorts of machines.
ReplyDeleteFabulous! THe colors really set off the star.
ReplyDeleteThis is just beautiful. I love the fabric choice and the quilting. Fun picture on your blue chair. :)
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous! I was planning a giant star quilt for my bed... I think I want to do the paper pieced! Thanks for the tutorial!
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