Monday, December 26, 2016

Design Wall Monday

It doesn't seem like the best time to be starting new quilting projects considering all the UFOs hanging around my sewing room, but that's just what I did last week. We have two nieces and at least two friends who are all expecting babies that are due around the end of March/beginning of April. I have been invited to a baby shower and brunch in January for one of the nieces, so it's time to get going on making baby quilts.

My inspiration was a quilt I had seen on Sarah Craig's blog "Confessions of a Fabric Addict." Her starting point was a block design by Judy Martin called Star Cluster. Sarah super-sized the pattern to make a one-block quilt, and I loved the way it turned out. Here are Judy's original design and Sarah's version. If you click on the caption below either photo, you will be taken to the original source.


Interlocking Stars by Sarah Craig
The center of Sarah's quilt measures 64" square. She has included a great tutorial on her blog for making it (click the caption under the photo to go there.) I decided to make my baby quilt half that size. The scrappy squares for my star centers were all cut at 2.5". This part should finish at 32" square, and then I will add a border or two. I hope to finish piecing the quilt top by the end of the week. This may become my go-to baby quilt pattern for the next few quilts.


I am linking up to Design Wall Monday at Patchwork Times, Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt, and Moving It Forward at Em's Scrapbag. Check out all of them for tons of amazing quilting inspiration!

Julie in GA

11 comments:

  1. I love this design! Your baby quilt will be beautiful!

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  2. I recognized the JM pattern -- I really like it super-sized! A great design for a baby quilt.

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  3. What a great design. Love your version with two colours for the stars. Great baby quilt and may have to add to the to do list. Thanks for the link.

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  4. What a great design. Love your version with two colours for the stars. Great baby quilt and may have to add to the to do list. Thanks for the link.

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  5. Your quilt is beautiful. I love the pink and gray. I can see why it will be your go-to baby quilt.

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  6. This is a wonderful go-to design - thank you for sharing it!! Love your colors . . .

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  7. I love what you are doing here - very inspired! (hehe another one for my wish list!)

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  8. Oh Julie I love your pink/gray version! Thank you for posting Sarah's-I don't know how I missed it before. I think I will put it on my to do list. Your size would be perfect for a neonatal one. Happy Holidays!

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  9. What a great pattern for a baby quilt!

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