Spinning Stars Quilt

Today I would like to share a finish from a few months ago that I had not blogged about yet, Spinning Stars.

I originally created Spinning Stars for Modern Quilts Unlimited.  Right before I was about to mail to MQU (I was literally hand sewing the last side of binding), I got the sad news that Modern Quilts Unlimited was shutting down and that no more issues were going to be produced.

The editors from Modern Patchwork had contacted me the previous week asking about submitting some quilt patterns to them.  I offered Spinning Star to them and shipped it off the next day :)

Spinning Stars appeared in the November/December issue of Modern Patchwork.  Unfortunately, Modern Patchwork shut down at the end of last year and that issue wound up being its last.

A little about Spinning Stars, it is an intermediate level, paper pieced, lap quilt.  I designed the quilt using EQ8 and then selectively removed blocks and elements to wind up with the diagonal line of stars. 

Many thanks to Robert Kaufman for the Kona Cotton Solids, Aurifil for the piecing and quilting thread, and the Warm Company for the Warm & White batting. 

My version of the quilt was made using Kona Cotton Solids in cornflower, copen, storm, kumquat, and white.  I just love the combination of the blues and orange.

Here is a picture from the magazine (photo credit: Modern Patchwork Magazine).

For the quilting, I used an allover large paisley design using Aurifil 50 wt in white (color 2024).  This was one of those designs I had a difficult time figuring out what to do and whether to go with a custom design or an allover.  In the end, I just wanted to give the quilt some texture so I went with an allover design.

Here is where the quilt lives now, on the couch (or more commonly the floor) in our living room.

This picture above is the best representation of the colors in the actual quilt.

Thanks for stopping by :)