Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Starflower Quilt

I am completely in love with this quilt.
It's going to be so hard to take this one to the post office!


This quilt uses Jennifer's starflower block tutorial --
my choice for my month as the quilter for the Peace Circle of do. Good Stitches.
This quilt will be donated to My Very Own Blanket.
It was so much fun to have these blocks arriving in the mail every few days!
It was tricky to get the points to line up well --
each quilter had very slightly differently sized blocks --
but in the end I think it's quite a stunning quilt.
I debated adding sashing in between the stars --
but decided that I liked the intense, bright colors right next to each other better.
All of the yellows and oranges make me think of fall,
and I used a yellow binding to keep it cheerful and light!


For the binding, I used Rachel's ZigZag binding tutorial.
I have never been a fan of machine stitched binding -- until now!
I absolutely love this, Rachel!


The back

Linking up to:


Celebrate Color
Be sure to check out all of the beautiful,
colorful fall entries at Stitched in Color!

23 comments:

  1. This is so beautiful! I need to make one for my house :)

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  2. This is gorgeous! I love how it turned out and now it's on my to-do list. Thanks for showing it off!

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  3. Very, very nice! I can see why it'll be hard to send it away!

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  4. That would be very difficult to send away!! Just beautiful, with all those bright colours working together. Love the back too. :)

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  5. Michelle, it turned out fabulous! I love it. Your quilting is beautiful too. I am hoping to finish mine for my in-laws for Christmas and after seeing yours finished, I have a feeling it will be hard to part with mine too.
    Great job!

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  6. this quilt is stunning! All the colors work so nicely together and really pop against the white. I can see how this would be hard to part with!

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  7. It's fab, love all the bright colours

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  8. Love it! And the zig zag on the binding works well.
    Carol

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  9. What a gorgeous gorgeous quilt and an absolutely lovely thing to donate it to "My Very Own Blanket". You know whoever gets it is going to cherish it!

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  10. The quilt is stunning - I can understand why it would be hard to let it go.

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  11. It's So, so beautiful! I kind of want to make one for myself... :)

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  12. Oh it's gorgeous Michelle! I have that block in my potentials list for my Bee month and this has just bumped it right up!

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  13. i love this one too michelle -- the colors are beautiful!!

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  14. Oh My Goodness. I LOVE it!! The colors, the simplicity, the back.....everything about it!

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  15. It's beautiful! I love everything about it! You're so generous, giving it away! :-)

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  16. gorgeous gorgeous! this is going to make one lucky recipient very happy!

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  17. Oh I would have such a hard time parting with it too, it is beautiful! You are right Rachel's binding is the best, I used that method recently too!

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  18. I love it! Stars are my new favorite quilty pattern, and this version is beautiful!

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  19. Such a beautiful quilt Michelle!!! This is one of my favourite blocks too:)

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  20. I'm so glad you added this to Celebrate Color. It's so full of gorgeous colors!

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  21. I'd love a tutorial for this quilt.

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