Well, at last! After working on the Lydia’s Forever Stars quilt, it is now its long journey to meet its owner! I made it just under the wire too. The finishing touches were completed early this morning at 1:00 am AKT. She received her final bath and press at 10:00 am then enjoyed her photo shoot for the big reveal at noon 🙂
I started this quilt on the first of October or there abouts, maybe the last week of September, in design. Then went shopping for just the right fabrics for her. Lydia’s favorite colors are black, red, WHITE, and monochromatic color schemes. I tried to pick fabrics that reflected her taste as I wanted to make sure she would use it! Warm and natural batting was used and all cottons. The backing is a high quality cotton. Now here I did something that most quilters scream and quilt police scream about. I did not prewash any of the fabrics. I wanted the old time pouffy, soft comfy feel that says and invites the owner to “use me, curl up and snuggle”. I do not preshink cotton batting–never have and never will. So, total shrinkage was less 4% and the look and feel was accomplished!
I chose to do my own quilting motif by creating templates of the eight-pointed star in two sizes. These were quilted in the monochromatic areas of the quilt with a coppery brown thread that complimented the darker fall fabric I chose for the accents of the outer and inner stars. I think the process worked well with this pattern and was expedient for hand quilting 🙂
Carmen, the love in every stitch just radiates from your lovely creation! Well, well, well done!!!!!
Bobbie
carmen absolutely GORGEOUS!!!
a truly carmen original; pattern, design, layout, quilting .. major kudos lady!
mum lydia is going to love that quilt forever! What a wonderful loving gift
I’ll get ready for more cheering from the sidelines for rick’s TATW 😉
I do just love how this turned out after following your progress on this. I’ve no doubt she will love it!
Beautiful quilt. I wish I could do hand quilting like that. Stunning.
Well thank you Carol 🙂 Lydia now uses Forever stars every night which makes me feel so loved! And the hand quilting? Piece of cake once you start!
Hi Carmen,
Thanks for visiting my blog and commenting, you asked me where I got the pattern for the bag I made, but you are a no reply blogger. I’m afraid I don’t know how to fix this on wordpress, but it means people can’t respond to your comments. The pattern for the bag is to be found here:
http://www.made-by-rae.com/2009/02/free-buttercup-bag-sewing-pattern.html it’s free for personal use, but if you want to sell it, you’ll have to buy a license.
Thanks Wendy for letting me know. I tried to enter my addy for wordpress blog and your site would not let me enter the address 😦 Glad you found a way to get a note to me. Thanks for the addy, I did find in your earlier entries after I left the comment 🙂 Just got lazy on letting you know. I am going to look into what I can do about wordpress. Thanks again!
Wow girl, you did change your blog – looks good! Lydia’s quilt is gorgeous.