{"id":1958,"date":"2014-01-25T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T01:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1958"},"modified":"2015-08-31T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T22:06:03","slug":"wonky-stars-started-late-2013","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?page_id=1958","title":{"rendered":"2015 – Wonky Stars Sofa Quilt"},"content":{"rendered":"

12\/29\/13:\u00a0 <\/strong>Saw a demo online on making Wonky Star blocks (Bonnie Hunter’s – Wonky Wishes<\/a>).\u00a0 Looked like great fun and since I just tuned up my vintage Singer 301, I thought I’d give it a go.\u00a0 Before I knew it, I’d made several.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

They are great fun to make…. I don’t have to match points or color within the lines….the funkier the better!\u00a0 Have no clue what I may do with these 6″ blocks but anytime I feel a little wild, I’ll make more!<\/p>\n

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10\/08\/14:\u00a0 <\/strong>Since I finished hand stitching ‘Urban Renewal’, I was in the mood to do some machine piecing.\u00a0 I dug out this UFO (Un-Finished Object) and played.\u00a0 For some reason, I was under the impression 30 blocks would make a nice size sofa quilt.\u00a0 WRONG!\u00a0 30 blocks only make a nice size DOG quilt.\u00a0 Today, I’m cutting more fabric for more blocks while I contemplate my next hand stitched project.\u00a0 It’s a toss up between hand quilting a finished top or starting a new one.<\/p>\n

02\/21\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>I’ve once again dug this from the UFO pile and stitched more blocks.\u00a0 I like how the stars appear to be twinkling in a funky, silly, wonky way. \u00a0 I now have enough blocks to make a nice-sized sofa quilt.\u00a0 Today, I’ll begin stitching them together and deciding on borders.<\/p>\n

03\/22\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>After measuring the width of this sofa quilt, I decided it would benefit from another row (10 blocks) of stars.\u00a0 I finished making them today and have stitched the rows together.\u00a0 It currently measures 59 \u00bd” x 48″.\"SAMSUNG<\/a><\/p>\n

04\/23\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>Scrappy border has been added and basting is done.\u00a0 Quilting has begun.\"SAMSUNG<\/a><\/p>\n

05\/05\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>Finished quilting the four patch squares and am half finished with the stars.\u00a0 Haven’t decided how I’ll quilt the border.\u00a0 It’s coming along!\u00a0 Here’s a picture of the back:\"SAMSUNG<\/a><\/p>\n

06\/19\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>Time to stick a fork in it cuz this baby’s done!!\u00a0 I finished the binding last night and hand washed it this morning.\u00a0\u00a0 It finished at 53 \u00bd” x 65″.\u00a0 Photos and more description will follow (after I clean storm debris from the deck).<\/p>\n

06\/20\/15:\u00a0 <\/strong>This was such a fun quilt to make.\u00a0 When assembling the blocks, I simply pulled out my pre-cut 2\u00bd” squares and separated them into dark and light for the backgrounds and star centers.\u00a0 The star points were pulled from my ever-growing tiny scraps bin.\u00a0 The border is made from light 2\u00bd” strips and the label was (obviously) hand embroidered on a fabric scrap.<\/p>\n

The stars were quilted near the ditch and the 4-patch segments were stitched\u00a0 \u00bc” from the ditch.\u00a0 The border was quilted in a design known as ‘Woven’ from a stencil I made myself.\u00a0 I like it and will use it again.<\/p>\n

After reading Bonnie Hunter’s tutorial<\/a> for narrower bindings, I decided to give it a try using trimmings left over from the Split-16 quilt already on the cutting table.\u00a0 I love how fate can often provide the perfect materials for a project!\u00a0 Thanks Bonnie!\u00a0 I absolutely LOVE<\/span><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>the narrow binding and will use it often.<\/span><\/p>\n

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12\/29\/13:\u00a0 Saw a demo online on making Wonky Star blocks (Bonnie Hunter’s – Wonky Wishes).\u00a0 Looked like great fun and since I just tuned up my vintage Singer 301, I thought I’d give it a go.\u00a0 Before I knew it, I’d made several.\u00a0 They are great fun to make…. I don’t have to match points (continue reading…) <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1020,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1958"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1958\/revisions\/2804"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}