Yes! More than a year in the making, I’m very pleased that Scrappy Stars Around the Corner is finished. And I’m pleased with the result. There were moments, as I pushed and pulled the #bigheavyquilt through my machine, when I was afraid that it would be a wonky, stretched-out mess. However, the magic of the washer and dryer put everything back where it should be, and it’s not bad at all.
This carton of eggs from my farmers’ market was the inspiration for the color scheme. I knew I would add some darks for contrast, and then I found the turquoise and gray scraps from a project, so it morphed a bit. I originally thought of it for the master bedroom, and giving it borders, but it ended up not matching. Then I let it sit while I tried to decide what to do about it. I finally decided to finish it up for a gift or to donate.
The back is pieced from four gray and gold fabrics.
This top lay much flatter than Scrap in a Box from the previous year, so perhaps my triangle piecing improved? However, when I went to run quilting lines through it, I discovered problems with my sashing. Next time, I will mark centers (at least) on my sashing strips so that everything lines up better.
And it’s passed its snuggle test, so I guess all is well!
I’m linking up to Whoop Whoop Friday and Finish it up Friday.
I took advantage of the Australia Day Sew In yesterday to finish up the second of the elephant baby quilts. Then I washed them both up for photos.
The batting is Warm and Plush. It really is nice and plush-y, and fine for quilting. One drawback is that it shrinks more than the regular Warm battings. I put minimal quilting in the version of Pink Pinwheels that I made for Etsy, and it shrank two inches in each direction, which wasn’t a problem, since it was a little large anyway. I made an effort to add more quilting to these two (roughly every inch or two inches), and it shrank 1.5 inches in each direction (on a 36″ x 42″ quilt). It is nice and poofy, just be aware.
The binding is the last of a Riley Blake one inch charcoal stripe.
Thank you for all the encouragement. These are really fun fabrics, and the aqua ones have been in my stash for a while, so I was glad to use them. These are in my 
Today I finished a pretty little baby quilt for a new little cousin. It was inspired by the color of her room.
I know you’ve seen this design before (a few times!), but I wanted to keep the pieces large to show the ribbon print fabric, so here it is in living color. I also used a piece of the new Grunge collection, which perfectly bridges the spectrum between lavender and orchid. The light fabrics are hard to see here, but they are dots and chevrons on cream.
The backing is an irridescent damask in a beautiful lavender.
I quilted this with variegated Poly Quilter from Superior. It was the perfect colors, but I have never been able to get it to sew in my machine before (I think it’s 30 wt.). Maybe it was the recent tune-up, but I had little problem this time. The big size 100 needle punched visible holes in the back, but they closed up when I washed it.
Now I have to break it to Krissi that we’re sending “her” quilt away. She’s pretty attached.
Technically, Yuri and I didn’t finish this quilt until today, but I’m counting it on this Stash anyway. This will be the last report I’ll write for a while, because of my knee surgery, so I want to include this.
This is a 
It was fun to revisit some of the fabrics in here. There are bits of peacock fabric from the 2008 Hoffman Challenge, and some from my nephew’s ocean-themed graduation quilt.
This quilt is 62″ x 84″ (or it was before washing!). It used about 9.25 yards of fabric.
We’re linking up to the 
A few months back the Twilters, of Twitter and Facebook fame, exchanged blocks in honor of our friend Frances O’Roark Dowell’s new novel, 
There was a question recently about whether we quilt in the ditch between patches. It depends, but I certainly did on this one! I used my walking foot and worked my way across both diagonals, then vertically and horizontally until all the “birds” were outlined. I also created some “faux birds” where I wanted them in some of the white areas.
Then I switched to my free-motion foot to work inside all of the triangles. The colorful birds got a curve on all three sides (orange peel?), while the background triangles got a figure eight design. It was my first time using this, so they were mostly figure eights, with the occasional one that turned out more like ribbon candy!
I bound this with strips left from the blocks I sent and some of the left over binding from the 
Today I finished the little Star Wars quilt I worked on this week. It evolved a lot since my first concept, but I like the way it turned out. And I have a lot of left over fabric that I cut along the way, so there will be a sequel. I wrote a 
The back is a blue geometric, a band of of orange Fairy Frost, and a section of gray moonscape.
I quilted it in a six” grid with gray Bottom Line. Then I used NiteLite Extra Glow thread (Superior) to quilt diagonal lines in the direction of the green streaks in the fabric. I did both a long straight stitch, and #44, a “hand quilting” stitch. This would take some tweaking to really look like hand quilting, but the forward and back stitching put down lots of thread to enhance the glowing effect. I used this is a quilt I made my son long ago, so I know it last through years of use and washing.
Here is my finished rainbow heart quilt for Orlando Pulse survivors/families. 
The butterflies are the HSTs that were trimmed from the lower corners of the heart blocks, and then I framed them to bring them up to size.
The back is a light green dragonfly print, and it has a row of print rectangles inserted in it.
Evening in the Garden Quilts 