CRAFTY | GIANT WINTERKIST STAR QUILT TOP

I actually finished this quilt top back in July but for some reason I just never got around to taking photos of it.  I think from memory winter was just too bleak and I couldn’t find a day that had enough sun in it to give me a good shot.

This was my July quilt top for my 12 Quilts in a Year Challenge.

I used the Giant Star tutorial from In Colour Order. It goes together really quickly (once you decide on your colour placement) and it’s a decent size quilt – great for a kids bed or for the couch.

The fabric for the star is Winterkist by Happy Zombie. I’ve had the fabric for awhile – I couldn’t pass up Christmas gnomes – I was just looking for the right project for it, and this seemed like a good fit.

The gnome print is rather large so the sizing of the block in this quilt pattern gave me a great opportunity to show off the print.

Because our Christmas is in summer I decided I wanted to go for a really summery feel instead of the traditional Northern Hemisphere snow inspired so I chose a background fabric (the name of which I cannot find for the life of me!) of blues to try and play up the water aspect of summer.

I don’t normally do borders on my quilts, I like the unframed finish of no borders, but given the fact that the points of this quilt pattern run right to the edge I didn’t want to loose them to the binding so I just popped a small border on to it.

I had toyed with the idea of quilting this one myself, but I think I’m going to send it to a long armer to get it finished in time for Christmas 2014.