Tuesday, February 19, 2013

On My Design Wall

Unusual Lone Star
     This is a paper-pieced pattern designed by Karen Stone.  I have had the plan, the fabric, and the paper pieces for about two years now.  There are 120 individual diamonds that have now been paper pieced; the sewing of all together is yet to be done; I wanted to put it all up on my design wall before starting so I could see the color arrangement.  At this point is measures 72" from one point across to the other.  It will shrink by about  4-6 inches after sewn.
      I am making this for our bed...queen sized.  So I will need to add several borders in order to make it big enough.  I have made only two bed-sized quilts before...and both of them I hand quilted.  This quilts will be machine quilted...by someone other than me!!!  I will farm this one out to be quilted by a pro!!!
     I have a few other projects in the works also....
  •  Cotton Robin-need to finish and mail off by March 10
  • Creative Crone of studioQ meeting next week and our last challenge to do-"Self-Portrait"...also an example of using Line in quilts
  • do my Bead Journal Project for the month of February
  • do my "Carnivale" quilt for my Art Quilts Around the World challenge due March 31st.
So my finishing my bed quilt may have to continue to be a slow process!!  But at least I have it up staring me in the face now, so it won't be easy to ignore!!!



6 comments:

  1. Gorgeous! Bright, Bold and Beautiful - think quilt show!

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  2. I would say maybe NOT put a bunch of borders on it as they may distract from this beauty, but rather use it as a "topper" on the bed with a simpler quilt in neutral color underneath as the one you curl up with at night.

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  3. NO Way you could ignore that beautiful star! Wow...I can't wait to see how you finish it. I'm not going to begin my Carnival quilt until we get back to Colombia...but a couple of the girls are already finished!!!

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  4. That is going to be a stunning quilt. Beautiful colors and fabrics.

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  5. i cannot imagine being able to ignore this fabulous piece~!!~
    Karen Stone does do some lovely patterns and you have worked this into quite the beauty. i really like the browns and blues you've used~!

    :-)
    libbyQ

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