It was a good week on the stitching front. It's always fun to have a finish. My goal was to finish the 2025 Guild BOM quilt before the end of July. I put the last stitches in the binding at about 5:10 PM last Friday, the 31st. Not up to the wire, but close.
I'm really happy with how this quilt turned out. This is the second time I've made an Inverted Star quilt. Here's the original started in 2014, finished in 2019.
The newer version is more scrappy, a consistent white one white background was used for the original version. I made the second version as the guild BOM because it was an good way to ease into being responsible for that program. Just two block patterns and quilt assembly instructions to write. Each month was a different color. Having to write instructions for someone else really helps you to simplify the construction process. I added the narrow blue borders as a stop between the scrappy whites in the sawtooth stars and the speckled background fabric in the new version. It just didn't look right without them.
The first version was for one of My Girl's writing class buddies from middle school. The new version is for one of her college buddies. Ansley's Palette is the name My Girl chose for this quilt.
The friend enjoys painting water colors and My Girl thought the quilt looked enough like a painter's palette to select that as the name. She wrote a personal message for the label that's on the quilt. My Girl has always told her friends that have quilts from us to think of them as a big hug from her whenever they curl up in one.
This is the first quilt in 16 years that I've sent out for quilting that wasn't quilted by Trudy. She's a hard act to follow, but the new long armer did a wonderful job.
I picked Stars and Loops for the quilting and that worked out beautifully. The background for each star is different, but I used a "paint spatter" print for the background for setting the quilt together. Something different than my typical white on white. But it definitely works with the quilt name My Girl picked.
The backing is a Connecting Threads sale fabric, Mum's Garden.
The copyright says 2018, so this has been sitting in the stash for a bit. It was picked because I wanted something light to go on the back and this was what worked best of my stash options.
I used all of the blue fabric in the narrow borders, there was none left for the binding. I tried a few other colors, but My Girl and I decided a scrappy binding would work best.
It's hard to see all the colors, a bit of green shows there in the middle. I managed to incorporate all the colors but black, brown and yellow.
My Girl has one more quilt picked out for me to finish for another of her college buddies. That will be my next project to send out for quilting. I have a potential backing selected, just need to see if there is enough or if it needs to be supplemented.
Linking up with Patchwork & Quilts, plus Sew & Tell Monday.
