It took six months to complete the quilting, but the String Star quilt is finally done. I’m very pleased with the feather quilting, and it was such fun to stitch that I’m a little sorry it’s done. Two Stencil Company templates were used in the plain spaces (10″ feather square and 5″ feather wreath), while the string stars were quilted with 3 diamonds in each point, spaced about 1/2″ apart. There is more information about this quilt in an earlier post.
For the giveaway I selected two additional feather patterns, the 8″ triangular feather for corners, and the 5″ large curved feather for borders. Four commenters will be selected, so your chances of winning should be pretty good. I always want to support businesses that provide products for hand quilters, so here’s a big thank you to The Stencil Company for donating the templates for this giveaway.
To win one of the four quilting template assortments, simply leave a comment below. I’ll use a random number generator to select four winners on Saturday, July 4.
Your string star quilt looks beautiful, and I really like the motifs you chose for the open space. The Stencil Co has so many wonderful stencils. Thank you for this lovely giveaway.
Your quilt is really gorgeous, Martha, and the quilting is so awesome! Thank you so much for the giveaway.
Love the piecing and the quilting!
Your string star is magnificent, and thanks for the stencil giveaway!
Isn’t hand quilting relaxing? I love the stencils you selected! What a treasure.
I have a project I’m going to start this weekend for my quilt guild challenge and will be using the Baptist fan pattern. I so enjoy your blog! Thanks for sharing!
I love string quilts and your string stars is a stunner. I have a couple of completed string tops for which these stencils could be the perfection inspiration/motivation to complete them.
Your stars are fabulous and, of course, the quilting is marvellous!
Beautiful work as always Martha!
Beautiful quilt! It is gorgeous and your quilting nicely balances your stars! Thanks and have a great day!
Mickie
Love your quilt! I don’t enjoy the quilting part, so, as a result I have lots of tops. Need to change that!
Love your string stars! It has inspired me to pull out my string pieced UFO!!!
My very first order from the Stencil Co. Is in the mail-should arrive today, and I am excited to receive them!
Beautiful quilting and gorgeous quilt!
Martha,
The string quilt turned out beautiful!! Love seeing all your quilts! Nice work.
Laurie
What a fabulous give away. I’m finally heathy enough now to get back to quilting. I spent a few hrs yesterday working on a new quilt.
Simply gorgeous! I have always loved feather designs. I just finished the backing to a quilt top I plan on hand quilting this winter. Thanks for sharing
Love these; I have never quilted a feather design before!
I love those scrappy stars! They aren’t just colorful and pretty, they appeal to my “use it up” soul. But that quilting jut takes my breath away!
The string star leaves lots of great space for adding fancy quilting — good job!
I just love scrappy string stars! Yours turned out fantastic! Isn’t it wonderful to have all that negative space for quilting also!
Love your quilt and I’d like to try quilting feathers — please add my name in the drawing.
The stars are so much fun, Martha. And the quilting is exceptional! I’m impressed that you finished in 6 months. It looks like a LOT of quilting to do in such a short time. (Maybe you didn’t do anything else — which would be the case with me.)
Your quilt is breathtaking, Martha! The stencil designs look great on your quilt.
I love this website. They not only give you beautiful quilt blocks. They help you find short cuts, making your quilt experience so much more fun. I wish I had all this at my fingertips when my Mother and Grandmother we’re alive what fun it would have been. At my Mamaw’s house she had a quilt rack that hang from the ceiling. They would let it down when working on the quilt. Then would pull it back up when they were done for the day. My papaw made it for her and my Granny. My Granny lived to be 103. This fasanated me as a child. This gave me the love of quilts I have today.
Just wanted to say I love your quilt and how much I think the hand quilting adds to it. Don’t include me in the drawing. I was the lucky winner last time.
Martha beautiful quilts. I loved the colorful fabrics in the star!!!! How I wish I could get similar fabrics here. The fabrics in my place are uniquely different and distinct. But, looking at your quilt, I felt I could do a similar one with the kind of fabrics I get. It would look very different.
The giveaway is lovely too. Thank you for sharing such good things.
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Your quilt is beautiful. I have just finished a crib quilt top that would look nice with these quilted feathers. Thank you for the chance to win.
This is so lovely. I would love a chance to win as I am trying to improve my hand quilting.
Just found your site. Wonderful work! I love qults with ahnd embroidery and will be back.
i like your string 8 point star quilt. i have a diamond tool, 11 ” tall and i can only get 6 points. would like to do one like yours. please tell me about the diamond tool that you used. and did you piece in the background, using a toll or the y seam techique?
thanks,
roseanna morgan
Hi there I just found you! You are just like me! Thought I was the only one out there! Just finished completing this same quilt. I went to a Church sale near my home and found bags of quilt scraps marked $2.00 each, brought them home and 1 of the 4 bags had 10 scrap stars already made squished into a bag. Paper pieced still intacted, I worked on them got them ready and finished the blocks. Thank you for sharing your work. It’s just how I pictured this unfinished 1940 quilt to look. Love your Blog!
Beautiful quilting!