Warm Spinning Stars.

I (almost) finished another quilt! There's still a bit of  hand-quilting to do but I really wanted to enter it, with binding, into the "Festival of Scrappiness." I just don't usually really like my quilts till I've binded (bound? My husband and I were just having this discussion...) them.

For this one I used Anna Maria Horner's "Spinning Stars" pattern (you can download it free here.) and all my warm coloured scraps. Even the white was cut from scraps leftover from my "On Parade" pinnies!

One of my favourite moments in making this quilt was realising this Herringbone by Joel Dewberry, a print I've pulled out and put back on the shelf so many times, would be just perfect! Because I mostly make clothes, it's always exciting when design I feel a bit ho hum about looks much better in quilt or binding form than worn on a little person.

I'm hand-quilting this one, because it's my new favourite thing to do. I find it so relaxing and I just love the look.  A glass of wine (or coffee, depending on the time of day), a movie (last night I watched 'The Help") and rocking the needle back and forth is my (perhaps crazy) idea of the perfect evening. :)

 Hey, before you go check out all the other amazing scrappy quilts (there's HEAPS!) why don't you head to the top of my page, click 'Like' on the Facebook thingy so that you can join in a huge giveaway I'm running later in the week. There's 8 little crafty businesses involved! I'll tell you more soon. Hope to see you there!