After putting in a few hours of sewing yesterday and today, I find that I have something to show for this round after all. First of all, here is my assortment of wonky stars.
There are two sets of four – the smallest will finish out at 3 inches, the larger at about 4 1/2. While it took some patience to stitch on the tiny scraps of star points, I found myself enjoying the process. And in the end, they are so darned cute! I also made them fiery stars, in hot shades of yellow, orange and red. They jump right out from the pale blue background.
As I stitched along, though, I found my stars getting less and less wonky!
The blue border will be six inches wide. This will give the eye a good break from the dark and busy center of the quilt while allowing the stars to shimmer. Here are the assembled borders laid in place.
As you can see, the border is not attached yet. I am in the process of quilting the center body. My plan is to make separate quilt sandwiches for each border, attach them and then finish up the quilting by working around the edges. Or perhaps I will quilt them before sewing them on. Anyone have a recommendation for me on how best to manage this step?
If you would like to see the work of other quilters doing this challenge, follow these links:
- Chris @ Chrisknitssews
- Emily @ The Darling Dogwood
- Anja @ Anja Quilts
- Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn by Us
- Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
- Susan @ Quilt Fabrication
- Gail @ SAHRR – Round #5 ‹ Quilting Gail ‹ Reader — WordPress.com
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Your little fiery wonky stars are so fun! I like the way they dance around your quilt!
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Thanks. And thanks also for proposing them and for the link to the tutorial. While I had used this technique before, the blog provided a lot of tips and tricks I didn’t know about.
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Beautiful. Nice wonky stars. I found the checkerboard row busy, also. It needed a place for the eye to rest. When the quilt gets too big for a picture, place it on the floor, climb a stepladder and take the picture from above. It took me years to figure that out.
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Hi Laura! Fabulous job on your wonky star blocks!! I have a hard time being wonky – I have to really concentrate on it and then it still kind of . . . is too correct. I can see you becoming less and less wonky the more stars you made. HAHA! That’s okay – you gave it your best wonky try. {{Hugs}} ~smile~ Roseanne
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So gorgeous!
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I like the stars, and I like their random distribution 🙂
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Thanks!
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I think with quilting I would get a bit OCD on the straightness of lines and symmetry which is probably just as well that I haven’t ever started one.
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Most of my friends who tend to OCD like quilting for exactly that reason – they can make things straight and lined up!
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