You may remember that I wanted to make a Patriotic Quilt this year to celebrate our country's 250th birthday. I started this quilt on June 3 and finished it up this week, just in time for the 4th of July!
The pattern that I picked out was Stardust, a free pattern from the Fat Quarter Shop. It was easy to follow and fun to make.
Some of the fabrics are from the Old Glory fabric line by Lella Boutique. I especially love the red one with the flowers. :)
Thankfully I have some fabrics left over to make another project. Isn't that the story of my life? I might made another quilt with some of the same colors to coordinate with this one.
I had seen this line of fabrics on Facebook and wanted to get some of these for my quilt. While I was on my Shop Hop, I happily found some of them at a local store. I added in a couple of other colors to complete the look that I was going for.
Starting out, I found the pattern easy to make, as long as you label the squares! Most of the quilt is made with half-square triangles and whole squares, in all different sizes. Thankfully I had a new set of Alpha Clippies to help me out.
Here is a pic of the starburst before I put on the border. You can see the size of it with my chair in the photo. I think it's about 60" square, which makes a nice throw.
In this photo I am free motion quilting it on my sit-down longarm. Because it wasn't too big, I finished it in a couple of days.
The color of the medium blue is more to it's true color in this photo. I made a quick journey to Hobby Lobby and found a very nice dark blue fabric with ships on it for the back.
All in all, it turned out so nicely. And it's actually done - yay!
