It's a compliment
when someone asks you for another quilt....isn't it?
Well my MIL asked for
another.
Here's the front on the design wall
The front has 1872
pieces. 1" wide (finished) strips sewn into log cabin blocks.
I wanted to do
something not-so-ordinary for the back,
and with the "star" theme in mind, I made
one big star for the backing.
I seem to have a bit of trouble when I'm
sewing narrow strips together, to get the blocks to be square. They tend to
become bowed on the sides which i couldn't use for this quilt so........
I have plenty a few "bowed
blocks" that I put aside and started over. They'll get used in another
project at some time in the future.
I liked the big
star on the back, but wasn't sure how to make it big enough to fit as backing. I had plenty of
the blue fabric (with stars on it) which I'd already planned to use for the
binding, so I chose it as a narrow border to frame the large star. Then I framed
that with a wide frame of little pixies who are tossing stars around.
It fit!
I FM stippled the
quilt....... and......Alas.... it was done.
To get a 'second' quilt centered on
the back was a new challenge for me, but with the help of DH, bro & sil we
got it done.
I am so happy with how the
whole thing turned out, and I'm sure my MIL will be happy too.
