Wednesday, 27 February 2013

A Lovely Year of Finishes - Feb goal met!

I have met my February goal - to finish the starburst QAL quilt that Melissa at Happy Quilting has being running. Yay! :)

I have posted about this quilt before here and here. 

 For the quilting I decided on a travelling loops and stars, all over pattern. 

Then on the narrow border a back and forth line pattern.


I managed to finish quilting it last week and then finished hand sewing the binding over the weekend. I am really quite pleased with it! 

 Melissa's instructions gave several block sizes, but I chose to take me fabrics from a layer cake so had to make the block slightly smaller. I was very pleased I did this as I dislike trying to fight big quilts through my DSM. The finished quilt has ended up at 40.5 inches square.

 Melissa is having a parade on March 4 for all the finished quilts. I am so pleased I will be able to put mine into it. I was going to wait to show pictures until then, but can't resist.

 So, here is the front. The sun actually shone today so I took full advantage and hung it outside!

And this is the back. I used up all the left over scraps to make the strip and added it to some Kona snow. Not sure the strip looks straight looking at it here, but that's life!
Hope everyone is meeting their February goals! Linking up to 
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15 comments:

  1. Shanna of Fiber of All Sorts27 February 2013 at 16:38

    It's perfect in every way! I can see why you want to show it off.

    Thanks for linking up to #ALYoF

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  2. Jeanette27 February 2013 at 17:17

    So, so pretty. Love the colors and the pattern is beautiful.

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  3. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 18:55

    Love the quilt but really love the quilting. Really nice work.

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  4. Melanie27 February 2013 at 18:57

    Your colors are so eye catching. I love the pattern, too!

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  5. Anonymous27 February 2013 at 19:58

    Wow! The colors are beautiful! I love the stars you quilted as well.

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  6. JHNickodemus28 February 2013 at 08:16

    Simply fabulous! Enjoying the colors and the quilting!

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  7. Marit28 February 2013 at 11:51

    Yay - a great finish! Your starry quilting is so cool and the border quilting gives such a great effect.

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  8. Shannon @ Modern Tradition Quilts28 February 2013 at 19:08

    Beautiful quilt!

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  9. Jennie1 March 2013 at 02:42

    I love the quilting - especially what you did in the border - it's beautiful

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  10. UKMUMINUSA1 March 2013 at 08:34

    Beautiful, love the quilting.

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  11. What Comes Next?1 March 2013 at 08:58

    good for you on your finish - it looks fabulous!

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  12. Regina3 March 2013 at 10:43

    Congrats on the finish! That border you made simply with the back and forth pattern is very effective.

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  13. Lisa in Port Hope4 March 2013 at 16:22

    It all goes together so nicely...I really like the border effect.

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  14. Alisa4 March 2013 at 16:35

    I like it! Found you via Happy Quilting. I'm not too far away from you, on the other end of the Fraser Valley. And we enjoyed the sunshine today too!

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  15. Unknown4 March 2013 at 17:04

    Your quilt is beautiful, thanks for the close up of your quilting.

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