The biggest hurdle was piecing the back of the
Under the Stars quilt. Silly me, I just assumed that the yardage "package" sold at the Craftsy site was the correct amount needed for the entire back, but when I went to measure it out realized that, yikes, it was only 4 yards. Then I thought, Oh, that must be a mistake and went to look on the site - nope, they sold it in 4 yard increments. Grrrr!. Well, then I thought that I would just use up my scraps from the front and make a special back, because that's where the love is. Which turned out to be a lot of fun.
Then, after carefully lining up the the verticals I pin basted. So, then, what to quilt? I didn't want to do stitch in the ditch, because, as
Weeks Ringle says in her Craftsy course, it is a wasted opportunity to add something more to your quilt. And since I'm doing
Leah Day's Building Block free motion quilt along, I felt inspired to try to free motion flowers on the stars and curves along the red squares. I did initially SITD the main blocks to hold everything together, but I used wash away thread, so that it came out when washed.
Here is the result.
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| Front |
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| Back |
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| Back without flash to try to see quilting |
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| Front |
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| Front, can't see quilting on red squares |
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| Back, quilting over piecing |
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| Front, quilting on squares! |
Now, all that's left is to label it and ship it off to my parents. Whew!
I also am finally caught up on
Amy Gibson's 2014 Sugar Block Club! Yay!
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| January |
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| February |
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| March |
Holy Smokes! These were fun to make! Especially after "stressing out" about my fabric choices. In the end I went with a darker second background. We'll see how that plays out.
And finally, not quite done with all of
Leah's blocks for March.
The white fabric all looks pink in these photos.
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| Wonky circles, Grrr |
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| This one is still on the machine |
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| This one is still pinned. |
Here's the link back to
Leah's Friday Link-up.
And I am so slowly piecing together the blocks of
Bonnie Celtic Solstice.
I'll also link up to Cat Patches
New FO Challenge, when it goes live on Monday.
Off to quilt!
