Star Quilt help
12-09-2009, 06:05 PM
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Hi,
My mom wants a quilt for her bed, which is a king size quilt. She loves the color blue, and we are working on deciding on a pattern. I already have batting, and am going to buy a backing in the next few months. She wants a pattern that is stars, with a light to dark/shaded blue background. Any ideas? She has liked one pattern in Easy Scrap quilts by Leisure Arts, that had gradiation, with stars in it, and there was also a Jinny Beyer pattern that was greens & Purples that had different stars in it.
Those are examples. I want it to be something very nice for her, as I don't want to make more then one quilt! Any pattern ideas would be great.
If it could use scraps, less then a fq, that would be great, as that is what I have.
On a side note, A while ago, I got blue fabric from this group, as I didn't have enough to make her quilt. I never thanked everyone, as I was so overwhemled with the response. I am going to sit down and thank everyone as soon as I can, as I feel really bad about not thanking everyone.
My mom wants a quilt for her bed, which is a king size quilt. She loves the color blue, and we are working on deciding on a pattern. I already have batting, and am going to buy a backing in the next few months. She wants a pattern that is stars, with a light to dark/shaded blue background. Any ideas? She has liked one pattern in Easy Scrap quilts by Leisure Arts, that had gradiation, with stars in it, and there was also a Jinny Beyer pattern that was greens & Purples that had different stars in it.
Those are examples. I want it to be something very nice for her, as I don't want to make more then one quilt! Any pattern ideas would be great.
If it could use scraps, less then a fq, that would be great, as that is what I have.
On a side note, A while ago, I got blue fabric from this group, as I didn't have enough to make her quilt. I never thanked everyone, as I was so overwhemled with the response. I am going to sit down and thank everyone as soon as I can, as I feel really bad about not thanking everyone.
12-09-2009, 06:16 PM
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12-10-2009, 05:51 AM
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I'm currently working on a blue & white king size star quilt based on the patterns from
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Happy-Qui...0452774&sr=8-1
The quantities are given for FQs, although I am only using 8 different fabrics in mine. Pattern is simple and very effective.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Happy-Qui...0452774&sr=8-1
The quantities are given for FQs, although I am only using 8 different fabrics in mine. Pattern is simple and very effective.
12-10-2009, 06:50 AM
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If you want to stick to FQs than the colorado log cabin with the stars in the quilt block sashings would be very pretty.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...283155&s=books
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ima...283155&s=books
12-10-2009, 07:54 AM
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You know, for such a large bed you could make a large star out of hst's and then add inner borders and more blocks around that in smaller sizes. I have a wall quilt with one large star and keep wanting to make one for my king size bed. some day!
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