Wednesday 1 October 2014

Finished!

Well, I finished my celestial star quilt!  I have been waiting for sun in order to get some good picture--and there has been none. So, I just took them with my flash, and they're awful.

Here's the whole thing.

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This is how I quilted the four setting squares.  Anything white got a small scale stipple, and the grey is just loops back and forth.


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I did two of the corners with scallops around the star.

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And the other two with just echo lines.

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The centre star has pebble fmq in the grey, and a spiral in the star itself.

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The backing is a print by Amy Butler, I don't remember the name and I sewed the selvage into it. It wasn't big enough so I used my leftover grey to finish it off.

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This picture shows how I quilted the stars in the four corners.  I just did that up and down in each of the twelve segments.

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The binding is one I got on sale, the selvage said 'Alhambra 2.' It was what I had originally wanted to back the quilt with but I didn't have nearly enough. Apparently I am completely delusional about the amount of fabric it takes to back a 72" square quilt.

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I tried a new method of binding, based on a couple different tutorials, but the main one by Red Pepper Quilts.  It is the best job I have ever done machine quilting binding.

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Despite the poor pictures, the quilt turned out great!

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Lastly, I got back into my Harry Potter blocks. For those in the know, this is the golden snitch.

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Connecting to WIP Wednesday.

6 comments:

  1. Wow, what a beauty! Well done:-)

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  2. Quilt is beautiful and I LOVE that HP block! Yay for the snitch!

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  3. Well done. It looks wonderful and all that great quilting gives nice texture

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  4. Gorgeous quilt!!! I absolutely love it!! And I love how you quilted it all! It's beautiful!! :) thanks for joining me!!

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  5. I love the way your did your blocks! What a beautiful finished product!! Thanks for taking the time to photograph and explain your quilting. I'm still such a quilting newbie that the details are super helpful.

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  6. The setting of your blocks really highlights them and the backing is perfect. I'm still playing around with varied quilting that's not just random. Nicely done. I just popped over to say hi and congrats on being one of the other winners announced on Quilt Dad's post today. Happy Quilting.

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