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Quilt Finish: Twinkle Stars

4/1/2017

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My quilted Jester Block entry in to the MQG Spring 2017 Challenge.
This past fall I participated in the #30daysofquiltdesign challenge on Instagram.  I really enjoyed sketching and playing with quilt design ideas both on paper and in EQ7.  This block (above) was one of the blocks that I played with. I'm going to call it my "Jester star."  My original sketch from August 2016 is shown below (and how odd that I sketched it in orange and turquoise - the colors of the challenge fabrics!).

Fast forward a few months: this spring I signed up for the Riley Blake fabric challenge through the Modern Quilt Guild.  This spring, the fabric chosen for the challenge is Creative Rockstar for Riley Blake.

When I got the fat-eights for the challenge, I revisited my design notebook, and this block struck my fancy.


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The original sketch of my "jester" block from August 2016.
Before I cut in to the actual challenge fabric, I decided to do a test of the block. I grabbed two half-yard cuts from my give away pile, and a yard for background, and made a block. Then I decided that I liked the block. So I made another. And another. Then I figured out that I could cut some of the background for a boarder, and then still could eek out once last block. That made 4 blocks which make a quilt top! I laid the blocks out in an offset layout with one big partial seam in the middle.
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Twinkle Star baby quilt, made up from 4 of my Jester blocks.
I showed my sister the quilt top and she wanted it - so then I had to finish it. Right now I'm all about using stashed fabrics UP. Getting rid of fabrics. So for backing, I browsed through what I already had, and settled on this Hello Posy fabric by Aneela Hoey from a few years ago.  I don't tend to hoard a lot of fabrics, at least not the usual ones, but I do like the older Aneela Hoey fabrics, so this was hard touch. I decided to use it tho.
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I used hoarded Hello Petal to back my latest Twinkle Star quilt.
When I finished this baby quilt, I felt confident enough to go back and use the Riley Blake challenge fabric to make something. The amount of fabric that we were given was limiting. Yes, I could have bought more, but I really didn't want to.  The amount of fabric that we were given determined the design (the way I split up the background mainly).  I made one 16" block and that used up most of the fabric.  I scratched my head on how to finish it, and then had the idea to put it in a hoop. As an aside, several years ago I bought this 16" wooden hoop to use for hand-quilting. When I finally decided to try hand-quilting, I found that I didn't actually like quilting using a hoop, so it languished in a closet. Until now! My block happened to be just the right size. Here it is (top photo): my MQG challenge has been submitted and the quilt has been given to my sister. Win-win!
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