Stars

This quilt of stars was pieced by Karen P.  She said it was paper-pieced, a Judy Niemeyer pattern.  The colors are cool - greens, blues and purple batiks.

I qulted an arc around the star shapes.  There were some odd-shaped areas, which I stippled.  The border was SID and then echoed. 

 

 I quilted a pattern in the center of each circle.  The arcs match the arc going around the spikes.  

 

Here is Karen and her quilt.  It's a bed-size quilt.

Medallion Star Sampler

This quilt was pieced by Janet K's mother.  I need to get her name because she was a very good piecer and very prolific.  These quilts are being quilted and finished in her memory.  I wish I could have met her.  She was not afraid of difficult blocks and Y-seams!  She made a feathered star for the center.  The surrounding blocks are all star sampler blocks, and not easy ones either.  She choose a few coordinating colors from a floral focus fabric, which she used in the border.

 

I followed the floral theme and quilted large flowers peaking out from each corner of the medallion center.

Feathers were quilted in the dark pink sashing.

 Small flowers were quilted in the triangle areas.  I did a small stipple in the white background areas that were smaller to make the stars pop.  I didn't quilt over the stars, only some stitch in the ditch, to keep them flat and help define the piecing.

I had planned to quilt a complicated floral design in the border and realized I wouldn't be able to see it.  So I quilted a piano key border (straight lines).  No photo, but it finished it off nicely.  

Stars Crossing

 

This lovely quilt was pieced by Sue H.  I don't know the official name, I'm just calling it Stars Crossing.  I quilted beyond the seam lines of the snowball block, into the star block.

 These flowers looked similar to ones in the fabric.  They are repeated in solid blocks and in the outer border.  Wool batting gives this quilt some puff - and emphasizes the quilting.

Star Quilt

This quilt top was made by Janet K's mother, who passed away.  She found several pieced tops in her mother's sewing room.  Now they are getting quilted and bound.  They are a great memory of her mom and cherished by the family!

Star Sampler