Christmas for a New Day - Borders

Medallion styled quilts seem to interest me; it’s one of the things that attracted me to Sue Garman’s Stars for a New Day quilt - a previous block of the month quilt on The Quilt Show.

Christmas for a New Day was started in 2009. Some of the reasons it’s taking me so long:

• I don’t think I’ve made a quilt with quite this many borders before.

• It’s going to finish 85”x85” - my second largest quilt.

• Other project got more interesting to me…

But now I’m having fun again and I’m motivated to finish.

Windex and Variable Stars

This modified version of Sue Garman’s Stars for a New Day calls for 72 four inch variable stars - Windex may be telling me several of them are too ugly to use in my quilt, or she may just want them for her own new cat bed…

Overly Confident Piecer

I cut the gold, red, and green swirl border to the exact planned size - however, my four borders of 18 variable stars ended up 3/4 of an inch longer than they should be… Now I’ve got some work to do!

Unnoticable or Design Element?

Here’s the fix: an additional narrow metallic starred border. There’s a lot of seam allowances pressed under that 3/8” border - I may quilt heavily on both sides of the narrow border to make it puff up like it was appliquéd. Or I may quilt like it’s not even there.

Bowling

This weekend I get to drive to Phoenix to take a lesson from a high school friend I haven’t seen in 40 years. He’s in town to lead a clinic on Saturday and I get a private lesson afterwards. I’m excited.

Sunday is Bowl for the Cure Tucson (Bowling for Boobies) - a fun tournament and charity auction where we donate all our winnings to support the Susan G. Komen charity.

Next Time

The goal is to get all four variable star borders attached and the final border on next week. Then piece a back and baste. Quilted by the end of Thanksgiving weekend. I’m gonna get this done!

Quilt your way!