Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Little Penguin Quilts Through the Year

Saturday, March 16, 2019

Finally Finished!

This week I was determined to finish my wild and wacky Batik Star, and I did!

It measures about 28 x 28.

It's made from scraps of an Island Batik line called North Woods that I won in a giveaway awhile back, and I had waffled back and forth over what to do with them, finally deciding just to play with this star design.

After making the star, I divided up the rest of the strips into darks and lights and used the lights for a border and the darks for the binding.

I used some of the leftover bits on the back, too.


I enjoyed playing with the quilting on this project.  The center is a square spiral, a bit wonky, but kind of fun!  I used my spool of Aurifil Jade for the quilting.


After outlining the star points, I decided to try some gentle curves in the corners and borders.

I'm so pleased with those pretty stitches, courtesy of my new machine! :)

I decided to hang this in my sewing room for awhile - just because!


I'm definitely happy to have Batik Star finished, and with almost all of the fabric used up in the making of it, too.

Hope you're having a great weekend!  I'll be sharing at Quilting is more fun than Housework for Oh Scrap! 







15 comments:

Birthe Marie said...

Your Batic Star quilt is gorgeous! An exciting way you have used the fabrics. I also think the back was very good. Well done! :-)

Michele McLaughlin said...

I'm so enjoying your projects these days!!! i love the star, WOWOWOWOW! You had great likes this week too but I'm just getting around to catching up! Have a wonderful week!

Vicki in MN said...

And isn't it fun when we can use up a 'set' of fabrics! Something I need to learn to do, LOL

chrisknits said...

A very striking finish. Love the use of all those scraps!

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

you finished that one up pretty quickly - it turned out well and I like how it looks on your wall

Sylvia@Treadlestitches said...

Congratulations on your new machine, and your finished quilt! I love the curved quilting, and the thread color is perfect!

piecefulwendy said...

And you should have it on your wall to admire, a pretty quilt like that! What a satisfying finish!

Cynthia Brunz Designs said...

Look at those pretty stitches! Looks like you are enjoying your new machine and your updated sewing room. Thanks for linking up with Oh Scrap!

PaulaB quilts said...

It’s a fine rugged star, strong yet also gentle. It’s one of my favorite patterns and I made it in Kaffe Fassett fabrics, but not in strip blocks, which give it a whole different appearance. Congratulations!

Deb A said...

Very pretty! Love the little curves you added to the corners.

Alison V. said...

It looks amazing! I'm so glad you were able to put all of these scraps to such good use!

Linda @ kokaquilts said...

It looks great hanging up in your sewing room!

Kate said...

Congrats on the finish! It looks perfect up there on your wall.

Linda said...

It's beautiful! You did a wonderful job on fabric placement, and your quilting looks amazing. Love it on your wall. :)

Scrapatches said...

Very nice use of scraps ... I like! ... :-) Pat