Wow I haven’t finished a quilt I started in the same month in a LONG time! This is Star Shadows that was started at our September guild day (daytime workshop with the Redneck Quilter). I quilted it with loopy stars all over and I love how it looks now that it’s done! At some point I might do another but make it a lot bigger by making more stars, but that’s way down the line.
This quilt was started in 2022 as a block exchange at guild. 8 participated and each made 2 blocks to share. For a while I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to do with a setting, and then decided to just use white on white fabrics for the sashings and 2.5″ squares of the fabrics I used for the cornerstones. Then it sat because I needed to figure out how I wanted to quilt it. I spent 2 days a few weeks ago in classes for my longarm and one of the things we did was ruler work. I decided this quilt needed ruler work and free motion quilting. It took the equivalent of 2-3 days to get it done, but it was so worth it!
One of the many things we talked about in class was taking a picture and using an app to try out quilting designs before you get to the machine. It came in really helpful on this quilt! I took pictures of the blocks I didn’t know how I wanted to quilt them and I played on the ipad with designs. When I figured out which ones I wanted I just printed them out so I could look at them next to the quilt without the heavy ipad on the quilt. I’m going to continue doing this for anything that isn’t getting an all over design. Our instructor used an app called Whiteboard from Microsoft, but I used an app already on my ipad and Mac Mini called Freeform. It works great, and syncs between my devices perfectly!
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