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Twenty months of hand sewing later:

SHES DONE!!!

(The back)

EPP front, machine pieced back, hand quilted all over.

For my first full-size quilt, I think it turned out pretty well :)

#quilt #mrs chippy #I keep feeling like I need to work on my quilt #but I CANT because it’s DONE #guess I have to start again…

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I have seen a few sampler quilts with stars that I really liked online so I knew a star quilt would be in my future. Unrelatedly, I had picked up a copy of The Block Book by Judy Martin but I found it has a ton of star patterns. Then, at a quilters’ garage sale last month, I saw a $1 scrap bag of yellow fabrics. That’s serendipity if I’ve ever seen it, so I decided it was time to start my stars.

The first two were directly from the book. The third one is similar to one in the book but it was a 10.25” block and the others were 12” so I decided to tweak it a bit, resize it, and make it a paper pieced pattern. The process would have been far simpler if I had one of those 45 degree rulers, but with a little trigonometry I made it work.

For the layout I have in mind I’ll need about 16 of the 12” stars and 8 or so 6” stars. Right now, I think I will do all of the small stars in that cathedral window style, but we’ll see if I change my mind.

Project started June 2026

#quilt #OBSESSED #these stars are so interesting

Fiji table set!!!

When we were in Fiji in January we visited a fabric store and bought these really awesome printed cotton rectangles inspired by Tapa cloth designs, with the idea of eventually making placemats out of them. 6 months later I actually did it!

I found this gorgeous leafy batik at a local fabric store back home and it pulled the whole idea together! I hemmed some squares of it for napkins, too.

Quilted up all 6 rectangles and now they’re table-ready! So fun to do a finish-able, useful project for once!

#quilt #also so fun to work on this project and remember what a great time we had in Fiji!#kind of fun to get a souvenir you have to revisit so you can reminisce #it was also good to refamiliarize myself with the sewing machine #as a noted hand sewing addict #man that bernina sure goes brrrr

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had the pleasure to meet the tiny person i made this for today

happy they're here ✨️

#quilt #such nice colors!! and the little stars add so much whimsy to the class of the squares #love these batiks soooo much #kind of want to steal this idea

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behold what i have wrought!!!

#BLUEBERRY CAKE #this is so good you don’t even know #thanks Isabel <3

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meda and i got some matching guys :)

#penguins!!!#we’re peng-twins now hohoho

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LONE STAR COMPLETE! This square block measures 60 inches (152 cm).

I was originally planning on making this a throw quilt, but now I want to build it out into a larger quilt. Time to think about borders!

#QUILT #pride month #If there’s two things I love it’s lone stars and pride #totally sick combination here

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Pride Flag Quilt Top

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH EVERYBODY!!! I recently finished this pride flag quilt top, which I'll be displaying at my local pride event next week!

I wanted each block to be different and eye catching in its own way, so that you don't get bored looking at bland stripes. This project is a labor of love. I did the math on piecing nearly every block, save for the house block on the bottom right corner. That came from a book. I went through quite a struggle doing all the math to make the blocks that are split diagonally by color. Those were the ones that took me the longest to get through. The regular solid color rainbow blocks? I flew through those in two days, lol!

I'll share closeups below the cut:

#really cool #quilt #happy pride!!

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My quilt is coming along, I'm nearly done with construction (all I have to do is put on the border) and then I get to quilt her!!! I'm so excited to see it finished, and it's so crazy to finally see it all in one piece. Like, that's the guy from my drawings!!! It's real!!!