Sunday, January 8, 2017

Project Quilting Season 8 - Week 1

This is the eighth year for project quilting and the challenge theme for this week, "8 is Great", was perfect.
I was inspired to make an 8 pointed Lonestar. I designed the layout in EQ7 and added 8 New York Beauty blocks and 8 distorted New York Beauty blocks.  

The Lonestar was the fastest part to put together.  I used strip piecing and it went together in a couple hours.  
I used all my brightest rainbow batiks! The next row of New York Beauties was also pretty quick, had them done in one night.  The last row of distorted New York Beauties took the longest with all those pieces in the outer ring.  The end of my week had me up late every night in order to finish by the deadline, but it was definitely worth it.

No time for fancy quilting on this one.  Just stitch in the ditch for now around the major sections. Maybe later I will go back and put in some free motion in the stars.  But this week didn't allow for any fancy free work.

This one measures approximately 38.5 inches square. Started and finished in one week in Lake City, SC.  It's my first finish for the year and my new favorite quilt!

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12 comments:

  1. Wow! That is beautiful, congratulations! Beth @ Words & Stitches!

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  2. Well done! I love where you went with the number 8. And those colors - what's not to love?

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  3. Beautiful and so much to finish in 1 week. BRAVO!!

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  4. Wow that's amazing to be done in a week

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  5. This is amazing! I love the colors you used!

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  6. HOLY COW that's amazing! And gorgeous! You're a wonder

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  7. Amazing! You made this in a week! Beautiful colour too!!

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  8. This is absolutely incredible! I Can't believe you did that in a week - amazing!!!!!! and gorgeous!

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  9. one week! oh my goodness. congratulations

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  10. I envy the time you have to quilt, allowing you to make such a detailed quilt in a week! Fabulous result.

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  11. Wow! Love this and all your pretty colors! Great job for one week!

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