.: Cotton + Steel Giant Vintage Star quilt - wahoo! :.
Another quilt finished! - this is my Cotton Steel Giant Vintage Star quilt, made from the super quick and straightforward tutorial by Jeni Baker.
I made it for two reasons - one, because I loved all the Giant Vintage Stars I've seen all over the internet, and two, to use a few of the Cotton Steel fat quarters that I've been slowly accumulating thanks to the Pink Castle Cotton Steel club.
The star is all made of Cotton Steel fabrics, and the background is made from different favourite low volume fabrics - with just the sweet blue C S tigers sneaking in on the bottom right - I just realised there's a whole little cat line-up going on there too, with Lizzy House's Catnap cats, and C S lions and tigers, oh my.
I took the quilt with us down to Lennox Head for a few days, so I could do a little binding by the beach.
I even finished the binding in time to take a few photos on the beach on Saturday afternoon - but the steady easterly and late afternoon sun meant that they were not quite the relaxed, arty, beachy quilt pics I was hoping for - so we quickly took a few more in the backyard this afternoon.
These next two pics came out great, since the quilt was safely folded and not snapping in the wind like a sail, ready to take off over the water.
Kelly from The Quilt Machine did the quilting, and chose a really great edge-to-edge design that really complements the quilt, I love it.
I'll definitely make another Giant Vintage Star - it's such a great pattern for highlighting some favourite fabrics - both in the star and background - and it sews together so very quickly. I think next time I'll add a border to make it just a little bigger for a single bed. This one is already living happily on the lounge.
Back to school for everyone in Queensland today. Hope you've had a relaxing school holiday, and are ready for an awesome week. xoxo cat
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