This client quilt is an amazing Hunter's Star quilt and matching pillow cases. The quilt by itself is 95" x 110".
This is the first row partially stitched out.
The quilt pattern design is so interesting - the blocks are made with the parallelograms in two colours, and the star design is revealed when the blocks are stitched together. This colour combination of taupes, browns, greys and creams is so soft and calm.
The quilter wanted to feature the stars, so they were stitched in swirling feathers.
The spaces between the stars were stitched with arcs and pearls.
This snap of the quilt back as it is being stitched, is a capture of one of those moments that took my breath away - walking into the studio to get stitching for the day, the quilting showing on the quilt back looks amazing!
The outer edges of the quilt had the background stitching with curved cross hatches to frame the quilt.
The quilt just coming off the frame - with the pillow cases.
The wee spaces on the diagonals between the stars received smaller pearls. The border stitching design is a double piano key.
The pillow cases have similar designs, with curved cross hatching in the background.
Got to use some longarm magic on the border ... there was quite a bit of excess fabric in the border. This is a result of cutting the borders longer than the quilt, sewing on the border, the slicing off the excess. The method to avoid this is to measure the quilt (ideally in three places including the quilt centre, then average those 3 measures and cut to that average length), cut the border to that length and then fit the border. Here is the article that was my "aha" moment - why this matters!
This is that "friendly" (it was waving!) border, magic applied, tamed.
Starch. Starch is the magic. Laundry starch.
This capture of the back shows the stitching details very nicely!
The rulers used in this quilt - from Quilters Apothecary, the Quilted Pineapple arcs and Lisa Calle's Proline ruler. I used the Handi Quilter Mini Circles ruler for the pearls -- 1/2" and 3/4".
The rulers used in this quilt - from Quilters Apothecary, the Quilted Pineapple arcs and Lisa Calle's Proline ruler. I used the Handi Quilter Mini Circles ruler for the pearls -- 1/2" and 3/4".
The thread for this beauty is Hab 'n Dash Glide "Warm Grey 4" - a bit of a chameleon thread - reads as grey on grey fabrics, and brownish on brownish fabrics.
My Bernina Q24 recorded 407,000+ stitches in this project. Actual stitching time - 28.75 hours.