We had a few minutes of sun the other day, so I took some pictures of this quilt out on our deck!
One of the fun details about this quilt is the accent color in the binding. I added a little green strip of fabric using Julie's Binding Flange Tutorial. It's so simple and easy to do!
The star is made out of selvages, the part you cut off fabric that tells you the manufacturer and designer. It also has those fun dots that show you all the different colors in that particular fabric. I've kept them for quite a long time and thought this would be a great project to use some for.
The star pattern is like a quilt that Sarah London made a while ago. She has a tutorial on how to make the star and that's what I used for this little quilt. You have to draw your own diamond shape, and mine was a bit off when I first made this. It didn't want to lay flat, so I had to take the white parts off and re-cut them. It went together much better with a few custom adjustments.
I think I'll hang this cute one in our play room for a while!
quilt stats:
size: about 36" square
pattern: Selvage Star by Sarah London
~Jessica
...and I'm linking up with QuiltStory's Fabric Tuesday
I think I'll hang this cute one in our play room for a while!
quilt stats:
size: about 36" square
pattern: Selvage Star by Sarah London
~Jessica
...and I'm linking up with QuiltStory's Fabric Tuesday
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44 comments:
Love the quilting with the different colored threads!
I love this. I am so inspired to make it. I told a lady at our local fabric store about how everyone is using the selvages on the end. She thought that was crazy. She should really check it out because it is so cool.
So beautiful! Love the binding (have bookmarked that, thanks!) and the hand stitching is perfect! Thanks for sharing.
this looks gorgeous
I adore this! The binding looks awesome, too. I have a bag by my sewing table where I keep all of my selvages, hoping to one day make something awesome like this! :)
What a great idea!
Beautiful job!
Just beautiful!!
Jennifer :)
I love this!
Honestly, I was taken aback by this photo....your quilt is really beautiful...what a fun way to use up those selvedges! Love, love, love the colors!
This is absolutely stunning! I'm speechless.
What a wonderful little project!!
Just beautiful!! Love it!
So clever! I love it!
Oh my! This is so cute! I'm totally inspired to make one, right now! Thanks for sharing.
It's beautiful! The selvages really make it work!
Hello! This is so beautiful Star! I love everything - those texts of fabrics, stitches with matching colours and white aroung to make colours even more clear! Really beauty!
Thank you for inspiration! Teje
So, so, so lovely. I'm off to favorite it in flickr now!
very stunning. :)
I love the quilting around the edge it is so cute!
Very Pretty!
this turned out great, and the hand quilting is such a nice touch.
Love it!
echo everyone else's statements. It's just lovely!
I love this. I have never been excited about saving the selvages, but I might start to make something like this. It's really fabulous.
So cool!
Stunning, the colours 'pop' so nicely against the white :)
This is beautiful! I love the hand stitching and the green around the edges! Great work!
So pretty! I love the hand quilting too :)
Stunning! the quilting really makes it special!
So pretty - this star is perfect for the selvages!
Amazing again! Slow down girls, you are making me and Megan feel bad@
This is absolutely gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the links. I've never thought to save the selvages - but I will be now!!!
Stunning! Gives me another reason to keep saving all my selvages.
jessica i love this!! and i'm glad my binding flange tutorial helped you out too!!
What a great idea. This is a beautiful quilt.
This is so amazing! My eyes are just being opened to the quilting world and I'm so glad I found this beautiful blog and all it's beautiful projects to aspire to! I found y'all through the Jem Jam Style Stitches flickr group. I saw the Nicey Jane fabric and thought, "This girl has taste, I've got to see her blog!"
I'm doing my very first quilt along with P.S. I Quilt to launch my quilt making/learning year.
this is simply delightful!! i LOVE it to pieces!!
beautiful, I love everything about this. definitely worth taking apart and putting back together!
Love it! So bright and cheery.
So bright and beautiful. Lovely!
another FAV!!!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this one!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is such a beautiful selvedge star! It looks so pretty and colourful. I use small amounts of selvedge in my designs sometimes too. I think this is just gorgeous!Helen x
this is utterly fantastic!
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