Carolina Christmas Star Progress
Posted By drsao on December 16, 2009
I fell in LOVE with the Carolina Christmas Star block from Bonnie Hunter’s Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt and I felt that I just HAD TO SHOWCASE IT……..so I decided to make TWO QUILTS – one from each block. The first quilt top is together and I have named it Carolina Christmas Star. It has one 2 1/2″ green scrappy inner border and one 4 1/2″ dark red border.
Here it is…..
Carolina Christmas Star Quilt
The back will be Bonnie Hunter Style Scrappy – all 10 1/2″ squares (63 of them!!!!!) I haven’t sewn them together yet – that is my next project – but here is the layout. Scrappy backs are my favorite – even though they do take more time and effort to complete!
Back of Carolina Christmas Star Quilt
AND BONUS TIME – since all of us QUILTVILLE MYSTERY QUILTERS made 13 of these Christmas Star blocks for Carolina Christmas – and I only used 12 – I used the extra block to make a 16 x 20 pillow (I just added two 2 1/2″ side strips!) I am very happy with my PILLOW – especially since I quilted it myself! This is a big deal because I usually do not do my own quilting! It isn’t fancy – just some straight lines and a few stitches in the ditches – but it made me very happy to accomplish this!
HERE IS MY BONUS PILLOW!
Christmas Star Pillow
and…..the back of my pillow!
Back of my Christmas Star Pillow
I used a new kind of batting that was left over from Carolina Christmas – that Sara used. It is SOOOOOOOOO soft and wonderful. It is QUILTER’ DREAM ORIENT- a blend of silk, bamboo, tencel and cotton. It is antibacterial and environmentally friendly. The ONLY reservation I had about this batting was that the directions said to GENTLY MACHINE WASH and DRY WITH A COOL DRYER. Well, I did a test. I made a LITTLE quilted block using the batting – and I washed it in VERY HOT WATER and dried it on the HOTTEST SETTING in the dryer for 20 minutes. It did GREAT – almost zero shrinkage! So I am very happy with it. (By the way, TENCEL is made from eucalyptus wood pulp and is often referred to as imitation silk.)
I have been under the weather the last two days (what a funny expression) but sitting in my sewing room doing creative things keeps me from focusing on my yuckies!
I’ve been following everyone’s progress on Bonnies’s quilt, although I haven’t participated myself. I still have my Double Delight to finish up! Your use of just the star part of the pattern looks wonderful. I look forward to seeing what you do with the poinsettia blocks. Have a wonderful Christmas. I’ll be heading to Midlothian the day after Christmas to visit with all of our kids. I may have to fit in visits to local quilt shops while I’m there.
Hi Sister
I love your version of Bonnie Hunter’s Christmas quilt. I have not started the quilt. I just printer all of the steps. My that I see your quilt I am only going to make the Stars. I love love love your quilt top.
Sorry you did not get to attend the CPQG holiday meeting. You would have enjoyed it OH so much. I think we made about 2 thounsand dollars for the guild to the raffle. I won one of the faffle for a one block wonder quilt top. The top is unfinished. But I got the extra blocks to make the quilt. I is WONDERFUL and I got it at a good price. So of the things went for over 100 dollars.
Your friend Sara has two of my quilts to quilt. After your post on what a great quilter she is I thought I would give her a try.
Merry Christmas, happy holidays and I hope you and your family are well.
Bonnie