Quilting like a madwoman since somewhere around 1984!
This one was completed in 1988. Thank goodness I’ve improved since then. I was influenced here by the typical black Amish background, but I used pastels (pink, lavender, aqua) for the pattern, which was machine pieced and hand quilted. The quilt has now gone to live with my twin sister in France.
I found a wonderful stripe at our local show in March, 2006, and had to bring it home. I finally decided to put it into some feathered stars, since I really love them. The stripe is in the center and larger points of each feathered star, as well as forming the borders. I used the colors of the “feathers” to make the Lemoyne stars in the corners. I designed this quilt using EQ5 software.
I machine quilted this, using 100-wt. navy silk thread — yummy stuff! — for the background. The feathered stars are outlined for stability (also in the silk thread), and then accents of gold metallic thread were added to emphasize the gold in the fabric. I did a similar treatment in the borders, and the Lemoyne stars are quilted with thread to coordinate with their colors. Here is a detail of the quilting, where you can see the “headband” pattern I used all over the background:
Once again, I added corded piping between the borders and the binding; unfortunately, it doesn’t show very well on the busy stripe. I finished the quilt in December, 2006, and it measures approximately 48″ square.
I entered this quilt in our local show in March, 2007, and it won a blue ribbon! It’s the first blue ribbon I’ve had in the local show, so that’s really exciting. 🙂 Here’s the quilt at the show:
