I pieced a charm star quilt for my sister several years ago - before I got my longarm even! I was able to go to my aunt's and use her longarm to quilt it. It was just my favorite quilt ever. So of course, I wanted to create it again, and make it king size so it can go on our bed ;) The blocks are 16 inches, and the whole quilt is HUGE -- 117 x 101!
It's been pieced for a couple years, and one row of a meandering feather is stitched. But, I really didn't like the stitching, so decided to rip it out. That has taken forever!! It's been hard to find time to just sit and rip, but I finally made it a priority and the last stitches came out Tuesday, yippee!! I worked so hard on the piecing, so I really wanted to do some custom quilting on it. But with it being scrappy, it's hard to find a design that will even show, let alone sparkle. I finally have a quilting plan for some parts.
I'm going to do a basket weave of dream feathers over the main body. I'm pretty excited about this plan, a little nervous about all the thread color changes, but excited non-the-less. In the small green border, Egg & Dart. I just love the classic look of E&D ;) But the squares in between the basket weave, I'm lost and same for the outer border. I originally thought about feathers in that outer border, but with all the feathers in the main body, I'm afraid that might be too much. Right now, I'm leaning towards double piano keys for that outer border - but would like to do something fancier. I've posted for help on one of my quilting forums, so hopefully someone can point me in a direction that turns on a light bulb for me ;)
So, for now, it's on the frame and I've started. Hope to have it finished by next weekend so I can get it bound in time to enter the local fair ;) Wish me luck.
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