My Homemade Life

After many hours my star quilt is now completed! I love the way it turned out. For the machine quilting I stepped away from Stippling and t...

Today I began the machine quilting on my Star Quilt. Each star block has detailed quilting and the setting blocks have stars within each squ...

Since my Star Quilt is so large I decided to use the living room floor as my work table. The first step, after rolling up the rug and sweepi...

Well, the quilt top is finished! I am so pleased with how it has turned out. After I machine quilt it I am planning on using red for the bin...

Finally, my last block is complete and I can now add the final row to the quilt top. Once the top is complete then the borders are next!

On Monday I will be putting together the 13th and final block for the Star Quilt-a-long. Since I have little patience I decided to begin sew...

OK, I am now on track; this is block 12 and I only have one more block to go and it will be time to put all the squares together. Boy, it fe...

I guess I was getting ahead of myself with the quilt along. I assumed the quilt consisted of 12 star blocks to go along with my 12 setting b...

Here is my 11th block; only one more to go. I sure am excited about finally being able to start piecing the blocks together.

Here is block 10 in the quilt along. Only 2 more to go and I can begin putting all the blocks together!!!!

We have been without Internet since Monday evening so I am just now posting quilt block number 9. It is so hard to be without Internet since...

I now have quilt block number 8 completed. My stack of completed blocks is really growing. Only 4 blocks left to go before I can begin sew...

I have completed block 7 in the quilt along. I think this may turn out to be one of my favorite quilts!

I have just about completed the setting blocks and couldn’t resist arranging some of them with the star blocks to see how it was going to lo...

Here is block 6 in the quilt along; I have now completed half of the star block. Over the weekend I cut out and began piecing together the ...

Here is block 5 from the quilt along; it turned out to be a challenge with so many small pieces to stitch together.

Here is block number 4 in the quilt along. Sometimes it is hard being patient as I am anxious to see my completed quilt!

Here is block number 3 in the quilt along.

For the Star quilt I am working on for the quilt along at crazymomquilts I used a red calico fabric for the setting blocks. The quilt will ...

Here is block number 2 for the quilt along. This time I needed a second blue to complete the block so I searched my stash of scraps and foun...