“Pistachio” And “Star Brite”

‘Pistachio” is smiling at me on the design wall, and I got her a backing the other day. So, now she will go on the longarm.

I was going to donate this quilt, but it has turned out so, so cute that I’m saving if for a great grand baby or some other baby I personally know.

Bonnie Hunter is presently working with this X-block as well, and I was able to figure it out from her posts. She designed it for her Quiltmaker magazine column some years back, but I couldn’t find it in their archive.

I made these blocks as leader/enders for some months. It’s 50-inches square.

“Star Brite” is finished.

This block was one among many Tara Faughnan gave us for the third month in Blocks3. It is an exercise in how to sew “Y” seams. I liked this block version the best with its medium trim. I added a bright red to Tara’s palette, and the binding is a color I had in my solid stash.

I quilted it on the longarm with “matchstick” lines, which I won’t do again as it is too time-consuming to walk from the front to the back of the machine for each row in order to engage the channel blockers that hold the line straight. (I don’t have a computer system.) AND, it was hard to line up the lines at a consistent width. A domestic machine is a better choice, especially for a small quilt. This one is 30 by 30 inches.

I had leftover Tilda fabric, Jubilee Birds in Trees in cream, for the backing. I do love the Tilda fabrics.