042 ~ I see Stars

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.