Arrow Star Blocks

I made this quilt out of 16" blocks a few years ago.

These are 12" blocks so I will need 42 to make a bed size quilt.  I have 17 done and I cut out the other 25.  This is one of my take along project for Bees and Sew Days.  I call this block Arrow Star.  

After finally finishing all my backings - I carried all the tops and backs down to the little house, turned the heat up and loaded the Fixation Quilt on the longarm yesterday.  It will feel good to get it finished. I don't know if this will be a Jubilee quilt.  It may have to live for me for awhile.

Sewing day at my house Thursday.  Looking forward to the inspiration I always get from sewing with others.

A Start

Flash back about a year - I finally have the Orca Bay Quilt from Bonnie Hunter's mystery  2011 on the machine.  Need to work on my lighting down there before winter sets in.

Using an allover floral  for the pattern.

Started another Arrow Star Quilt.  My first had blocks that were 16".  These are only 12".

Dreadful pictures but that is not my forte.

Arrow Star Again



Arrow Star



This is the Arrow Star Quilt that I finished  a couple of weeks ago. The background fabric is an assortment of white and cream colored fabrics so I used an ecru Aurifil thread to quilt the center.  I used red thread over the red and blue borders.  It measures 80 x 92".



 

Two Quilts Finished ------- Fractured and Arrow Star

Started quilting this last week after we got home from the lake. I used an all over spiral design. The quilt is large so I wanted something that went pretty fast.

The backing is a green and brown flannel print.  I was worried about using a flannel backing on such a large quilt knowing the way flannel stretches.  I did have one bad tuck just as I was finishing the last corner.  It took me a  while to rip it out. I used a striped binding.  It is 91 x 104"  Hope to get a picture of the whole quilt soon. 

 I also put the binding on the Arrow Star Quilt.  I  used a red on red stripe for it.

Two quilts remain in my quilts-in-waiting pile - one a wall hanging and the other a large Dresden plate.  I bought some white Aurifil thread especially for the Dresden Plate Saturday while in Wilmington. Now I have to get up my nerve and just do it.

Gettin' In Some Quilting Time

I started quilting this quilt last week before we went on our road trip.  When we got home from our July Forth GetTogether/Party at the lake, I was anxious to finish it up.  The borders surprised me - It took most of the day yesterday to finish them. 

This is a pattern Connie and I saw on a blog last year.  I drew up a pattern that we call Arrow Star.  My blocks were made on a 2.5" grid.The blocks are 14.5".(Connie used the 2" grid for hers.)  With borders mine is about 68 x 84".  I finished piecing it September.

 I used a very simple meandering with stars for the quilting.  I had purchased some Aurifil thread a while back and I loved quilting with it.  There was very little lint compared to other threads.