13 January, 2014

Pieceful Playtime

Late this past summer I decided to take all of the leftover low volume fabric scraps from the two Chicken Soup quilts I was making for my children for Christmas and, following the Star Flower tutorial over at A Crafty Fox's blog, cut them into sixty degree diamonds. I needed three hundred diamonds to make fifty star flowers, as luck would have it, because I didn't know when to stop collecting fabrics, that wasn't a problem at all!  The stars themselves went together as easy as could be.
I was fearful of setting the stars into rows though, I worried about setting in the hexagon shapes and getting all those star points to line up. As it turned out the worry was for nothing.
The first two rows went together without a hitch this weekend. It took some time, careful attention was paid to pinning and to pressing, but as you can see it went together smoothly. This project isn't one for the "Quilt In A Day" crowd; not at all! This is one quilt that will grow and develop over the next few months. I will work on it when I have long, free afternoons and evenings...on those rare occasions when I can take my time and really enjoy the piecing process. I absolutley love what is unfolding here; all from those Chicken Soup leftovers. Can't you just imagine this one quilted? I can...
Life is Good!

12 comments:

Paula, the quilter said...

It is always nice to have a project on which you can take your time. My "Faithful Circle" is like that. I just searched and I started in on 12/05/10; that makes it 3 years in the making so far.

Nane said...

Kudos. I can't even line up half square triangles ; ) you will have those hexis to do some cool quilting!

Quiltdivajulie said...

The joy is in the journey . . .

Janet O. said...

It is a subtle beauty, and it will bring you joy as a finished quilt because you are enjoying the process. : )

straythreads said...

that is going to be gorgeous!!!

Elita@Busy Needle Quilting said...

Oh, it's so beautiful! I love the soft colours and you can have such fun with those hexie spaces to quilt! Lovely project to take your time with. Looking forward to seeing its progress. xx

jude's page said...

looking forward to seeing how you quilt this, lovely quilt.

Gari in AL said...

I love what I am seeing, it is so ladylike. What a treasure.

LizA. said...

So soft and soothing....so very different from my stars for this project. I stacked & whacked some spicy, bright floral fabric....guess I should get back to them one of these days......

45th Parallel Quilter said...

A delightful quilt! LOVE low volume fabrics and may have to keep an eye on this one (copy cat alert!!! LOL). As Gari in AL said ... very ladylike ;-) Linda

Carrie P. said...

very pretty!

Teresa said...

I just love projects that I can spend quiet time machine piecing or hand work..something I know will take awhile so no need to rush. The stars are making up so nicely, I will enjoy seeing this one progress over time.