Paige and I knew that we were going to be doing some trunk shows for the book so I decided to remake another version of Celestial (this is the quilt in the lower right hand part of the front cover. I decided to re-make the quilt in a baby size, which is much easier to travel with.
Celestial is a super fun and quick quilt to piece, each block is 24" square finished so only 4 blocks are needed to make a 48" x 48" baby sized version (9 blocks make a large lap and 16 blocks make a queen).
For this new version of Celestial, I started with a background of Kona Cotton in cornflower, one of my favorite blues. For the plus signs, I used a variety of prints, mostly Cotton & Steel, in blacks and whites.
As this was a small and manageable baby sized quilt, I decided to have some fun with the quilting and took some pictures along the way to show how I quilted Celestial.
I knew that wanted to quilt feathers on the quilt, where the feathers wound around the different plus signs. To highlight the feathers, I planned on doing a dense quilting pattern so my goal was to fill as much area as I could with the feathers (to minimize the area I had to densely quilt). Matching the Aurifil thread (50 wt) to the fabric hides many imperfections with the quilting.
Here was one of the feathers...
I then echoed the feather to help it stand out more.
Then I filled in the remaining area with pebbles.
I then quilted each plus sign using a square meander.
Quilt Stats:
Pattern: Celestial (made into a baby size) from Modern Plus Sign Quilts
Size: 48" x 48"
Fabrics: Kona Cotton in cornflower and various black and white prints.
Quilting: Feathers and pebbles
Batting: Warm & White
Thread: Light blue, soft white, and black 50 wt Aurifil cotton thread
