“Summer Stars on Fawn Lake”, the mystery quilt designed by Charlotte Hawkes, is finally finished! We started cutting for this last November, began piecing it in the new year, and finished up assembling the top in May.
I made the smaller version (3″ stars!) that finished at 79 x 88″ with the borders. This is the first one of these where I used a dark background. I had a lot of dark batik scraps from a space quilt I made a long time ago. I bought a little more to make enough, and the “feathery” batik for the borders and backing. The rest was scraps, especially bright, multi-color and juvenile scraps.
This is quilted with black Bottom Line on the bottom, and black and purple Bottom Line and purple Art Studio Colors on the top. The effect is pretty subtle, but it can be seen up close. I needed a thread that would blend well with the dark batik, but not be too dark on the bright fabrics. So purple was my neutral.
Can’t wait to see what Charlotte has up her sleeve for next year!
I’m linking up to Whoop Whoop Friday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict.
No, it’s not low-volume, but I like the way this turned out. It started life as a short wide panel. I cut it apart and sewed it back together to make it a vertical rectangle. Then I added the fish panels (the very last of that fabric) and the shell borders.
I quilted on the seam lines, dark blue lines, and around all the motifs. Then I quilted waves around the borders.
I finished it with a blue and white diagonal stripe binding.
Finally, I’ve finished the Tree wall hanging. It finished at 34″ x 42″. I struggled getting good photos of it today, between the wind and lack of a good place to hang it, so I’ll probably take some more before I list it on 
I debated whether to bind it in green or purple, so I put it to the #Twilters. Green won, but I went with Darla’s idea of a purple binding with a green (faux) flange. Thank you!
This is the quilt that started with the scrap left from backing 
The leaves on the panel were chunky and squarish, so I cut little squares of green, gold, and purple fabric, mostly scraps from the donation quilt. I wanted to sprinkle them around, but they refused to sprinkle, dropping instead as thick, layered clumps, so I ended up hand placing each bit into the areas I had prepared with spray baste.
Then I covered them with water-soluble stabilizer so I could quilt them into place. I used 
I used metalic thread to brighten the sunbeam on the right. It really shows more in indoor light (good!) and when you walk by, than in a still photo.
The hanging sleeve is caught in the top binding, and hand sewn underneath, so that’s my hand sewing for the 
I like the way it turned out, and if no one else wants it, it’ll look great in my house!
This week I put together this baby quilt that I designed a few months ago. It has it’s roots in 
I had a signal flag print ready for the backing, but as I was looking for some fabric to piece into it, I found a big piece of this great fish batik, and this nautical stripe that I used for the binding. Love those fish!
Last week I finished the Poinsettia Quilt, and I’m really happy with the result. It’s 60″ square, with a bazillion 4″ curved patches. The design is by Anne at 
This is similar to my 
I used Superior Threads’ Fantastico in red and green to quilt the flowers and leaves, and Bottom Line in light green for the background and bottom thread.
The back is a wonderful green and white leaf print that I though was perfect. So did Yuri.
This week I quilted and bound Pacific Stars. This is the mystery quilt by Charlotte Scott (
This week I’ve been working on these red poinsettia blocks. This design is from Anne at 
And I’ve listed the 
This quilt seemed to take forever, but it was really only about a week of sewing. The customer started talking to me about it in early August. We arrived at a design, then she chose all her fabrics, then sent the links to me, I ordered the fabric, and then awaited it’s arrival. I started sewing the first week in October, but stopped to do other projects while waiting for that last piece of fabric to arrive. By that time, I had the back and binding made, so construction went smoothly. These are big geese, ten-inch blocks!
Quilting took a little longer, because a lot of it was straight lines with the walking foot. At 70″ x 90″, this was fairly large and took a lot of free-motion quilting after the lines, but after the 
I should get this in the mail on Monday. Whew!
Evening in the Garden Quilts 