Wednesday, July 22, 2020

North Stars Quilts!


Back in February I shared a quilt I was working on called North Stars by Elizabeth Hartman.  I finished all the blocks and yesterday assembled two kids sized quilt tops with 8 of the blocks.  There are 9 blocks in total but I'm saving the Owl block to make a wall hanging.  I didn't want to make a large bed size quilt as I knew I would never use that.  Making 2 kids quilts made more sense for me.
 Here is a link to my last post about this quilt.

I finished Meredith Muskox back in February at a quilt retreat at Keystone Modern Creative in Winnipeg.   Remember quilt retreats...those were the days! ;)


Next I finished Willa Walrus at my Tuesday sewing group in March.  Miss my sewing group friends and our sewing days.


Then in May after realizing it will be a bit of time before our sewing group meets again I started working on the rest of the blocks at home.  Here is Patty the Polar Bear.  I struggles with finding fabrics for this one until I found Elizabeth Hartman's 'Arctic' collection online at Sew Sisters. And it was on sale for $8/m, jackpot!  The original pattern has the polar bear fabric on the seal block, that made no sense to me! ;)


And the last block I finished in May as well, this is Owen the Owl and he will be made into a wall hanging.  I didn't use the grey background fabric that I had on the other blocks as I wanted the owl to be grey. So I changed the background to blue knowing it was not going to be put together into a quilt with the other blocks.


So yesterday after not touching my sewing machine for 2 weeks I went back down to my quilting room and found sashing and border fabrics to make the top kids tops.  I was very happy with what I found in my skinny stash. I have been collecting a lot of fabrics for bags so dipped into that stack to find what I needed.


For this first one I originally had the Polar Bear where the Reindeer is but once I found the right border fabrics I decided it needed to be a blue/brown themed quilt. I was so excited to find this blue polka dot fabric for the sashing as well as the Dear Stella fabric in my stash, it worked perfectly. 



The second one I struggled more with how to sash it. I found the outer teal floral border quickly but what to sash it with?  I had a lot of my background grey left and that seemed to be the best option for what I had on hand.


So I hope to quilt this both up before the end of the month. I think a simple panto will finish them off nicely.


8 comments:

  1. Beautiful quilts! How fun to shop the stash...I need to do that more!

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  2. Great idea to make smaller quilts...might just have to do that when I eventually tackle this pattern.

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  3. They are both adorable, and a great size, cuddle on a chair, have on a bed, or wrap round shoulders. Love the photo shoot with one on a chair, just asking for a cuddle right there.

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  4. They are fantastic! What a perfect idea - to make 2 quilts! Love them both!

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  5. Beautiful job! I love her patterns.

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  6. Oh...they are so nice! Love the colours. Well done!

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  7. What a great idea, make two instead of one large one. These are charming!

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  8. Well done you! These are really great and I love how you explained the effort and once that marvelous long arm quilter has them they will be transformed!

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