I must be a glutton for punishment... anyone else done this?
 

ok, so I started this quilt in '07, I've worked on several since and I almost thought I would have it done by this past March (it's for my sister and her hubby, her birthday is March) I realized I wasn't going to finish it so I showed it to her, she loves it (I think the colors are boring personally) but I was told cream and sage green for colors.

This is a king size quilt and I'm just determined to quilt it myself, I've never done a binding on a quilt so that makes me a bit nervous, And I wanted to hand quilt the stars.... just so everything really is done by me. I've never seen a picture of anyone else using the Carpenters star pattern except for a single block quilt... so am I the only insane person to do this? I'm sewing this on my main machine which is a basic 1969 Kenmore that belonged to my grandmother...

I guess my other question is, to anyone who quilts things for others. If some of the quilting is started, it's not really great, but there, would you consider finishing the job? I live in No. Virginia and I guess I'm wanting this done. [ATTACH=CONFIG]438640[/ATTACH] hmmm not sure how to resize this. it's awful small. in actuality it's at least 108" square each block approx 32"
Thanks for looking :)

oops. nevermind. apparently it just looks small when you are inserting it.

I like it. Carpenter's Star is on my shortlist, and I really like the arrangement of this one.

I'm afraid I can't help with quilting info--I hope to make my initial foray into it next week. Good luck!

It's beautiful, and will look wonderful when it's complete. I never hand quilt, so can't be of any help to you on that score. Binding can be done on your sewing machine, but I would practice on a few small projects first.

Small project can be a fat quarter that is sandwiched and then machine quilted in squares on your sewing machine. Then find a tutorial for machine binding and give it a try. (There are several in the tutorials section of QB.)

When you're done with these small projects you'll have either place mats or doll quilts! Mind you, wrestling a king size quilt while binding will be a wee bit harder than binding a place mat, but the process is the same.

The blocks are beautiful and I don't think the colors are boring at all.

You really want to quilt a king size yourself?? Why don't you consider using a longarmer and spend your time on a really really nice personalized label for the back?

I'm way confused, do you want to do it all by yourself or willing to get some help? I would get someone to finish it if you want it done soon. Paying for it to be done always is the fastest way I think to get a job done. But I would get it done by a long arm machine quilter.

no I don't now... I guess I've just been doing it all myself on the other 13 i've done that I didn't want this to be different. Somehow I had it in my head that : A, I could do this. and B., it had to all be done by me or it wasn't completely from me.... like i was cheating or something.... I don't have the cash or space for a longarm machine myself. But at this point, I'd let another person do it as my quilting kinda stinks. First free motion actual project after practicing quite a bit.

Thanks for the compliments ladies! I guess it's not bad, It's just not my preferred choice of colors. I tend to work in brighter / bolder colors and patterns. I added the brown paisley to help with the IMO blah color palate. I will use that for the binding too.

I think it is beautiful!!!!