Scatty Stars! Sue's Christmas-a-long BOM has made the frame. Wow! When I put it that way this quilt shows nearly a year's worth of work. How about that? I'm still a little on the fence about how to quilt it, but the star border came to me as soon as I pinned the top to the other layers. Flash, stars! Oh the joy of being inspired. I just love the look of these stars along the top edge of the quilt and I wonder why I haven't seen them used in a border like this before? Maybe that will become clear to me while I work on the rest of the quilt.
This is the 3rd quilt to make my midarm quilt frame, I wonder how long I will keep track before I lose count. For the stars I kept everything the same including the tension. The flannel of this quilt really wants to grab so what would normally be only a bit tight seems to want to be extremely tight. This is an 80/20 lightweight batting which I think will be a wonderful weight for this baby quilt. The quilt I just finished was a hi loft full polyester so I was delighted the stars turned out so nice without any fiddling from me.
So while I dream of quilting patterns, why don't you tell me about your week? It's been a give an take week here. I'm glad it's September, August seemed to delight in throwing more and more difficult things my way and it's nice to move on. How about you?
6 comments:
Great to see the quilt on the frame. Love the star border. I am glad to welcome September too. No special reason, just because...
Love the star border, it's going to frame the quilt very nicely. Still working on the back for my Wild Mustang quilt, but my headache won't go away so I've packed it in for the day since it's hard to concentrate and not make mistakes. Yes I have to rip something out yet again.
Yes, yes, YES! Those stars are absolutely perfect! That looks great!
Do you know something weird? I've been thinking for ages about how I'm going to quilt Scatty Stars, and mused that it would be good to work out a way to put stars in it somehow - and you're ahead of me and it is all ready for me to see! Brilliant!
I might do a swirly pattern in the middle to offset the pointiness of the stars, and then pick up the stars in the border as you have...
It looks amazing Liz! I think it's going to be a lovely baby quilt. The light weight will be perfect.
Gosh you're way ahead of me! I haven't even got the borders on yet. I was planning to do that next weekend at the Christmas Quiltalong.
Whoops, I meant to say that the stars look like the perfect choice for the border.
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