Saturday, November 16, 2013

Polka Dot Starburst Quilt

 Last Spring I fell in love with a fabric.  (I know, surprise, surprise.)  But the fun thing was, it had corresponding colors in polka dots!  I was in a polka dot faze.  Then only a week later one of my favorite bloggers released this design.  The freaky thing was she used the same colors that I already had picked out for this quilt.  It was like she read my mind and created a design just for me. :)





What a fun quilt to make!  I really enjoyed the process.  And loved how it turned out.



Originally I was going to quilt it similarly to how Megan quilted her's.  I even quilted 3 blocks like she did.  But I just wasn't feeling it.  It looked cool, but it wasn't giving the quilt the effect that I wanted.  I think the close together stait-line quilting I was doing at first didn't make the quilt very soft and snuggly looking.So I did what any rational quilter would do...I brought out my unpicker. :0)  Now this was no sit down and watch a movie process. It took my about 3 movies to unpick it. (No not consecutive, I have kids for heavens sake.)

I decided to quilt 1/4" away from the outside star and the inside star.  Nailed it! That was the effect I wanted.

 Stats:
40" x 50"
Started: 2013
 Finished: October 2013
Machine quilted by me.
For:?? Do you want to buy it??


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