The local quilt group I belong to near my home had a visiting Tutor for a day. The lady who came run this workshop is a very clever teacher and comes up with amazing ideas.
New fabric, new project and day of sewing with girlfriends - I was in!
I chose an 'ocean' coloured batik jelly roll and a very dark blue/black mottled batik for my background.
The blocks are assembled log cabin style. It took a bit of thinking to figure out the construction because you made the blocks like you can see in the photo......
I frist blogged about Specky Stars in February when I wrote about the mistake I made and had to unpick the same piece 48 times!
...... and it's not until you lay them out that you can understand how it all goes together.
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| All laid out. |
Once I got it all laid out, it was easy sewing. The blocks went together like a dream. The backing fabric was called "karneval" and has some fabulous swirls in the pattern. The greens in the swirls are the same colours as in the blocks, even though it is predominately blue.
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| Backing chosen. |
Then it was onto the quilting. I used a very dark grey, not quite black thread for the quilting. Meandering with the odd spiral and swirl for extra effect.
For the binding, I chose an emerald green which matches the brighter greens in the quilt top.
I got the hand-sewing on the binding finished quickly. I have to admit to getting a bit dis-illusioned with this quilt during the construction of it, but once I got it all laid out and the quilt top completed, my desire to get it finished quickly kicked in because it turned out much better than I originally thought it would.
A great not quite single bed, but bit larger than lap quilt size of 54in x 70in. Perfect for when feeling a bit chilly.
I'm super pleased with how the backing turned out. The added strips left over from the batik jelly roll just provide some calmness to a very busy fabric.
And.... Ta Da...... here is the finished quilt!
Specky Stars has been claimed by my 16yr old son.
