Showing posts with label Lone Star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lone Star. Show all posts

Saturday, January 12, 2013

A (Small) Parade

As parades go, this one might garner the prize for the smallest in recorded history. We had a grand total of one entry; add that to Sue's quilt and my own, we have a 3-piece parade.

Ah, well, it was an effort, at least!

Without further ado, let us commence!


This Lone Star is from Frienzy Kay, who made this after a class. It was given to her in-laws, who displayed it in their Florida home. It eventually has found its way back to Kay, who is displaying it above in her family room. I can see feathered wreaths in her setting squares; if  you look closely they show up.

Quilt Sue, my partner in crime in this quilt along, finished her quilt top in 2012, and now has ideas on how she wants to quilt it.

I hear Sue is going to pop in later and give us her ideas on quilting in person. Stay tuned for that!


I've shown my quilt often enough here, that I really feel bad about posting it again! However, I did want to share my vision of how I will have mine quilted. In those large setting squares, I see some beautiful feathered wreaths with cross hatching in the center. The star bursts will all just be straight quilted. The outer setting squares and triangles will have full and half-wreaths. My pattern did not call for a border;  I will bind with red.

That concludes our parade. I promise, we did have other participants in our year-long endeavor, but I did not get an entry from any of them. Perhaps they will contact me and submit a picture yet today, which I will pass along as soon as possible. (I am going to be out of town for a time today, attending the funeral for the f-i-l of a Frienzy.) But I will update ASAP.

Thanks for popping in to our little parade.
Added much later: 
Finally home from a long day on the road. In addition to attending the funeral, we managed to locate 2 quilt shops between here and there, so it has, indeed, been a full day! But I did get another entry, so let's parade a bit more, shall we?

This star is called Cabot's star, and it comes from another Jayne - spelled just like I spell it! - from Bag End. Scroll through her blog and you will see this hung above her desk. She says it is a reminder that she still has not made a full size version of this star, but plans to (with gentle prodding) in 2013. Thanks, Jayne, for sending your picture!

Sue has sent a message as promised, and she has some elaborate quilting planned for her Lone Star. She tells me that she has created about 137 different versions of this feathered motif. I wonder what she will finally decide on? This is certainly a stunning pattern.


Won't it be spectacular??




Happy Quilting, Friends!

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

My Lone Star Is Finished!

It is with great relief and a dose of pride that I introduce you to my completed quilt top, Broken Star. It is a variation of the Lone Star, and is the quilt I worked on in the Lone Star Quilt Along with Sue at Quilt Times.


I resewed 7 of the 8 the green points by hand, and for the most part, I am satisfied with the results. I still have some puffiiness and excess, but when it is sandwiched with batting and quilted, I think it will all look okay. Then, a washing will just make it look crinkly and wonderful, as a freshly washed quilt is supposed to look.

Here's a closeup of one of the redone points. The easing is very evident on this particular point.


As I said, I don't think this will be too bad of a finish when quilted. Given that I began this quilt about 20 years ago, when I was so inexperienced with bias edges, I think this is just how it's going to have to finish.

I am so grateful that Sue wanted to do the quilt along. It did keep me focused on finishing this thing!! It sat in a tub in the sewing room for so long, and I would not have tackled this without her cheering me on along the way.

If you want to read about the long, long journey toward this quilt's eventual finish, just type 'lone star' or 'quilt along' in the search box at the top of the right sidebar. There should be plenty of back story that can be pieced together.


Yeah, it's gonna be just fine. Here's one more look at it. Whew! It's my last finish on the goals list for 2012.

Happy Quilting, Friends!