I purchased the pattern for this in Houston; I bought a folding tri-frame and made a version of it for Pat for Valentines 2017.
When the Board started talking about a Member Appreciation Night I thought this might be a good choice for a give-away. I didn’t have another frame but I adjusted the pattern to make either a small table topper or wall hanging.
Hopefully whoever ends up with it will consider it a win!
Kathryn (and crew) gave me a couple of bundles of Fat Quarters as a gift several years ago. I know it was a few years ago because I worked on it at one of the Mount Washington retreats and we haven’t done one of those for at least three years! This project was on my Guild UFO list; it had been sitting waiting to be quilted for probably a year at least.
I wanted to do straight line quilting for this; somehow I thought it would be easier than free-motion. I need to put up a big sign in my sewing room to remind me that straight lines, no matter what pattern, are slow and time-consuming. Lesson learned.
I used four different straight-line patterns for the quilting, depending on the size of the centre square of the block. I started with cross-hatching but by the end I was just making straight lines any-which-way across the blocks.
I’ve never sent a quilt through the mail until now. I packed it in a Space Bag (and sucked the air out of it with my vacuum) and I was surprised that it wasn’t very expensive.
April 15, 2018
I saw a picture online and thought I could recreate it for Pat’s birthday card. It isn’t exactly the same but I’m pleased with the way it turned out. The musical note fabric was from the Guild challenge last year; I bought more than the fat quarter we were given in our challenge packets and I’ve used it a few times.
When I was looking for something else (isn’t that always the way) I found some hangars that Mum had for her cross stitch projects. I had to work to make the width of the card match the width of the hanger; at every step in the process I worried that I hadn’t done the math right.
I’m hoping Pat will hang it in the studio on Texada.
This is the third project I’ve completed since I started sewing with the Thursday group. I originally thought I would donate this to the Member Appreciation event at Cranberry Hall (the backing is some musical-notation fabric) but once it was done I decided I wanted to keep it for myself.
The star itself is paper pieced and the quilting idea for the corners came from an on-line free-motion quilting challenge I’m keeping track of. I added some meandering in the set-in triangle pieces around the star. The loops in the border came from a quilting book I have in my own library and the quilting in the yellow corners is my own design.
