"Triple Barnstar" Quilt Completed

Done!
Here’s my “Triple Barnstar” quilt designed by Amy Gibson. The pattern is a star, in a star, in a star!

I did walking foot echo stitching around the stars, with sitch-in-the-ditch along the grid lines between the blocks. I never really pay close enough attention to really keep all the stitching in the ditch between the blocks. I much prefer stitching 1/8 to 1/4 inch away from seams where a little wobble isn’t as obvious!

Walking Foot Stitching and Stitch-in-the-Ditch (sort of!)

In open large triangles there are flowers without leaves and in the blocks without any piecing I did free motion flowers with 2 leaves. There is also a big of meandering and loops in the very large triangles near the center of the quilt.

So, this big project is finally done. And just in time—I heard something about possible snow in the coming week! It’s a perfect autumn quilt.

"Triple Barnstar" Quilt top, a Work-in-Progress

Here’s the quilt top I’m working on. It is a pattern by Amy Gibson of Stitchery Dickory Dock and called “Triple Barnstar”. (Look carefully and you’ll see that there is a star, in a star in a star). I think this is going to become the quilt I use during the Fall.

The pattern is for a throw or a queen size quilt. I started to make the throw but discovered it really covered the top of my bed, so I’m going to add on a scrappy border of the feature fabrics I have left over and call it a queen.

Despite the fact that I’ve been working on this quilt on and off all summer, it really does come together quickly. I like this quilt but it really doesn’t show off the star design very well.

If I make it again, I think it would be fun to use bold solid colored fabrics. One color for each star, and another for the designs between the star points of the largest star and the center square. While white or off-white would be the obvious choice for the background of that quilt, I think using that a low volume print as I did uin this quilt, would be fun.

Here is a photo of the two inner stars and center square so you can see more of the detail in the fabrics.

I’m off to go sew on the outer borders! This is a big quilt, so it will be a while before it’s done!