"Legacy Stars" quilt

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10-06-2009, 10:17 AM

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Maksi

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Wow, thats a beautiful quilt and I love the fabrics.

10-11-2009, 06:56 AM

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Feathers

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And my address is....I'll wait by the mailbox for this quilt to arrive. It's just beautiful. Love your colors and it sure looks like you have a good command of "pointy points!"

10-11-2009, 10:59 AM

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Eddie,
How lovely, thank you for sharing. I really like the close ups. Did you quilt it yourself or have it done?
Beautiful work and fabrics are some comfy.
Muriel

10-11-2009, 11:39 AM

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Eddie

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Thanks, y'all. :)

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Originally Posted by AkAngel

Eddie,
How lovely, thank you for sharing. I really like the close ups. Did you quilt it yourself or have it done?
Beautiful work and fabrics are some comfy.
Muriel

I did the free-motion quilting myself, using my sewing machine.

10-19-2009, 07:51 PM

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Just beautiful. Great job!

10-19-2009, 08:07 PM

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There are no words to describe, your work is amazing....only in my dreams could i do that.
dee

10-19-2009, 08:52 PM

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Just simply beautiful :!:

10-20-2009, 05:36 AM

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dakotamaid

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I love your colors! I also have made this quilt several times for charity quilts. People love stars and this one lends well to chain piecing which is quick and easy. Keep em coming. :-)

10-20-2009, 05:51 AM

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Thanks, everyone! :)

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Originally Posted by billswife99

This is beautiful!! Now my question is, how do you keep it all organised for sewing it into rows? I can see it's a variation of the Indian Hatchet like Ninnie made. But yours is organized where hers is random.

Jenell, you're correct, this one was difficult to organize. The reason is that the star points extend onto the following row, and that row has star points from the row below it that extend upwards. So I had to make this one row at at time, laying out the pieces for the next row as I was doing it, and thinking about the row to follow as to where the dark star bodies would be. So it was like having to work on 3 rows at a time mentally, but sewing one row at at time. Then, of course, I had to keep all the pieces in order while piecing the rows and making sure that those with directional fabric (the stripes) were all oriented the same slanting way. It kept me on my toes!

Yep, I thought this one was a bugger to complete from looking at the layout and I was wondering if you pulled your hair out trying to get the slanting stars colored right! I can see how that would be very time consuming and tricky.

10-20-2009, 05:57 AM

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Wow Eddie, I don't know how I missed this thread. That is one beautiful quilt you have made there. I like your quilting too. It really is amazing that yu are such a new quilter and are able to put out such nice work is a relativly short time. Amazing.
I love the stars pattern. Nice one to keep for yourself.