My finished Carpenter's Star quilt!!

I finally have pictures of my finished quilt.

Here they are.

Quilt Stats:

Size: 96 inches square

Fabric used: 

"Black, White and Current" by Color Principle for Henry Glass & Co.

and

Kona cotton solids: white, black and red by Robert Kaufman

Designed, machine pieced, machine quilted by Ariane Kring

Started in April 2011 and completed in July 2011

I hope you all like it.

I know my brother and his wife do.

Hugs

I'm done the quilting!!!

Hi everyone,

I finally finished quilting my Carpenter's Star quilt today.

Here it is!

The quilting is not perfect, but it's as close to perfect as I could get it with the tools I had.

And, not hand quilting it. (I didn't have time for that.)

I'm very happy with it.

I love it, actually.

I would keep it, if it didn't have so much white in it.

LOL!!

It would never stay white at my house.

Now, I just have to put the binding on it.

Yeah! I'm almost done.

Hugs

Quilting the Carpenter's Star quilt!

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.

I decided to quilt my Carpenter's Star quilt myself.

I'm using my daughter's Kenmore sewing machine, because it was recently serviced.

So, I knew it was working well.

Considering it's about 30 years old, it is quilting very well.

It's hard work, quilting such a big quilt on a little machine.

My arm and hands were really hurting after a few hours.

I decided to do some simple free-motion quilting on it.

That way I didn't have to turn the quilt constantly.

I just worked on one block at a time.

This made it a little easier.

I started in the middle and I'm working my way out to the edges.

I'm almost done.

I only have about 1 foot and a half left to do around the edge of the quilt.

I'm very excited to be getting this done so well.

I worked night shift last night and work night shift again tonight.

I probably won't be able to finish the quilting until Wednesday.

But that is still so great.

Can't wait to be done.

Hugs

I completed the Carpenter's Star quilt top!!!

Hi everyone,

I hope you all had a great day.

I am off work this weekend.

It was so nice out the last two days, and I was working.

Now, I'm off and it's raining.

I really shouldn't complain, since there has been so many natural disasters this year.

With the earth quake in Japan, flooding in Quebec and Manitoba, flash fires in Alberta, Tornadoes in the US, it's been a really crazy year for bad weather.

My prayers are with everyone going through those hard times.

Today, I finally finished my Carpenter's Star quilt top.

I tried to take a good picture of it, but it was so windy and wet.

I managed to go out when the rain stopped for a bit.

It's 96 inches square.

So, now I just have to get it quilted.

What do you think?

Hugs

My Carpenter's Star quilt is getting bigger!

I've been working on my Carpenter's Star quilt.

I just have to do the HST border and then another white border and it will be done.

I can't wait.

It should finish at 96 inches square.

Hope you are having a nice day.

The sun came out a bit today.

It was a nice break from the rain we have been having.

Hugs

Some progress...

I'm making some progress on my Carpenter Star quilt.

I ran out of white.

I need 20 6.5 inch white squares and also white strips for the border.

I will go out and get more tomorrow.

I do have a bit more done than shown in this picture, but I will save that for tomorrow.

Have a great night!!!

Hugs

My version of the Carpenter Star quilt

Hi everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful Easter weekend.

I worked all weekend.

We celebrated our Easter on Monday.

My youngest brother is getting married this summer, and I've been thinking of different patterns to make.

I had one idea, but didn't think i could make it happen in the time I had left.

So, I took my coloring pencils and graph paper out and started coloring.

I was inspired by Mary's Carpenter Star quilt pattern found here.

She used the GO! 6.5 inch half square triangle die and the 6.5 inch square die to make it.

I have the 6.5 inch HST die, but this quilt pattern was for a lap quilt and I wanted a queen.

Here is the drawing I came up with.

I just kept adding hst's around my center Carpenter Star.

I really like the look of it.

This is the fabric I had purchased for the quilt.

It's a Henry Glass collection, and a few kona solids.

I cut all my fabric.

I needed 100 red , 100 black, 148 white triangles.

I cut them using my GO! cutter and the 6.5 inch HST die.

Here they are all cut up.

It went really fast to cut them up.

I did start piecing the center.

Here is what I have done up to now.

I wish my design wall was bigger.

 

As I get further along, I will share my progress with you.

Hugs

Ariane