September 10, 2011

Christmas Quilt-A-Long 2: September Morning

I'm all set up for today's Christmas Quilt-a-long.  I raced ahead and all month long I've been working on our Scatty Stars Christmas Quilt-a-long Block of the Month Quilt and finished it up on Thursday.  What do you think?  I went with a narrow folded border and then a wider border that I quilted a row of stars all the way around, which I thought turned out really nice and I wondered why I hadn't seen borders quilted this way before.  Then I got stuck and didn't know where to go with it so I stewed for a while and eventually came up with flowers and swirls.  The flowers were DD's idea, she wanted Zinnias, so I did those as well as daisies and orchids.  The orchids are fun in the challenge they present.  Each time I form one I stop and think about the shape as I move through the petals.  Flowers are organic so there is no right and wrong way to make them and I found little dropping petals actually made them look better.

When Sue first posted about the BOM, I went to my fabrics and pulled out stuff that matched, I just kept going through what I had and trying to match it to her pattern requirements.  That's how I ended up with this theme of Flannel and Novelty Prints.  I actually had so much fabric leftover I made it reversible.  Hey I said I've been working on it all month, what did you think I'd been up to?
I went with the dark pink binding and I really like it.  There is something so wonderful that happens as you stitch a binding on.  It's as though even the quilt knows it's nearly finished.  As a bonus for finishing Scatty Stars my quilting table is nice and clear so I'm don't have a mess to try and photograph away from.

Does anyone remember this project?  I prepped it all yesterday.  This is my Art for Your Bed Quilt.  It is the Reverse applique bonus from my Hawaiian Ocean Applique quilt and I'll even admit I haven't worked on it since May.  It became my Christmas Quilt-a-long project but then I changed where I kept my active projects and it was out of sight and couldn't inspire me, but I've relocated it and am ready to get back sewing.  As I said I prepped it all yesterday by re-ironing and then cutting all of my rustic brown colored batik and squaring them up.  Now I just need to gab a bottle of water for the iron and I can get started fusing!  Happy Sewing Today.

4 comments:

Joanna said...

I love the way you finished your quilt. I'm hoping to do setting triangles and the borders today. Hope my quilt looks anywhere as nice as yours does. Love it.

Shakerwood said...

Yaaay! A finish. It turned out wonderfully - even the back is fun and interesting! Glad you could join us today.......

Vroomans' Quilts said...

Wonderful finish on your star quilt. Love the colors.

Reenie said...

Gorgeous star quilt!! Those colors are just so peaceful. Makes me wanna snuggle in!!