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Thursday, July 24, 2014

Stars in Sunshine and Shadow

 Yesterday afternoon I sewed the blocks together for Aunt Brenda's quilt.  After dinner I put on the border.
This morning I pieced a back out of this batik snowflake fabric along with a bit of extra backing fabric.  I just need to make up some binding and a label so that I can send it off for hand quilting.  I'm thinking of scrappy batiks for the binding.  Mainly because I don't have anything except what is left from this project.
Looking at the 6 inch center part of the square, I am thinking this would make a stunning sampler quilt with 6 inch blocks in each of the stars.  24 blocks, 2 per month for a year.  Maybe next year.    
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8 comments:

  1. Kat ScribnerThursday, July 24, 2014

    It's beautiful!

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  2. Quilter KathyThursday, July 24, 2014

    Gorgeous! I love how the border pops up the colours.
    Great idea for next year!

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  3. Elaine AdairThursday, July 24, 2014

    This is a beauty! Love the diff. backgrounds, and how they gently add more to the finished product. I've like to make this one as well! Good inspiration for me.

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  4. Vicki WThursday, July 24, 2014

    That's a really pretty quilt!

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  5. Kaelyn AngelfootThursday, July 24, 2014

    What a brilliant idea for a sampler quilt. I've always wanted to do one but had problems with the reduced uniformity. Putting the sampler blocks in the middle of the same block would go a long way towards fixing that.

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  6. EllenThursday, July 24, 2014

    Wonderful!

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  7. Cathy TommFriday, July 25, 2014

    Great looking quilt. Love how scrappy it is.

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  8. KateSunday, July 27, 2014

    The dark border really frames the blocks nicely. Congrats on getting it almost ready to go off for quilting. That's always such a good feeling.

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