Third Star on the Right

Made for: Aunt Sue
Started : Sept. 14, 2010
Completed: Sept. 27, 2010

The concept for Aunt Sue's quilt began with her flipping through the pages of one of my larger quilting books. She seemed to be more drawn to star images or patterns rather than anything else and was also inspired by the star patterned quilt that I made for Tim. Under the star image and generous amounts of stippling it is a fairly simple log cabin quilt much like the one I made for Aunt Pam earlier in September. (Well, more like 13 days ago really.)

There are some new things that I sought to learn in this project. Stippling for one, as I have mentioned in other posts. I also incorporated some other ideas that I had not previously added into a project. The back of the quilt has several different parts to it, mostly because I didn't have the foresight to purchase enough fabric to complete the back in all one pattern. So there are seven different parts to it. I also did a scrap border. The initial stitch was done by machine and then whip stitched by hand once folded over.

I have not done anything by hand to a quilt thus far save for repairing split seams or small corrections. This was entirely new to me and was a wonderful way to wrap up the project with a little personal TLC. Previously I had been doing bias tape and machine stitching all the way around or at least for the final closing seam at a time when I had to turn my quilts inside out to sandwich them.


Auntie, I liked this one! It kept me up till all hours of the night sometimes but only because I kept telling myself "I don't want to stop yet!"