Today I'm sharing a sparkling Shooting Stars Throw quilt in patriotic colors! The quilt pattern has been updated which called for some new quilt samples! This beautiful star quilt is made in a new red, white, and blue fabric collection called Firework Fields by Riley Blake Designs.
The Shooting Stars quilt pattern now includes 6 sizes, a border and updated block sizing. You'll love how easy this quilt is to put together!
The Shooting Stars quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.
Shooting Star Quilt Pattern Features
The newly updated quilt pattern now includes 6 sizes instead of just two. You'll love that the Lap, Throw, Twin, two Queens (Square and Rectangle), and King sizes are all included. You won't have to do any math to create the size you really want! The Full size didn't work out mathematically, so it's not included in the pattern.
The first version of Shooting Stars included just two sizes with smaller blocks in the Throw size and larger blocks in the Queen size. In the updated pattern, all quilt sizes are made with the same size of quilt blocks. I think you'll love this new feature, as well as the added border which gives the eye a place to rest more easily.
You can read more about the Shooting Stars quilt with the white background in this blog post. And you may say, wait, there isn't a border on the white quilt! Uh, yeah, I forgot to add the border. And would you believe I put a line in patterns with borders to remember to add the border because it often isn't shown on the quilt plan that shows all quilt sizes! I did not notice my mistake until I went to bind the quilt and there was this nice, neat pile of white border strips next to the binding strips. 🙃
Fabric Selection
This fabric collection is Firework Fields by Gracey Larson for Riley Blake Designs, using just 5 prints from the collection with a background of Confetti Cotton in Coastal Blue, also by Riley Blake. Fabrics used in this quilt are :
- Large Star Points: Fireflies Red C17585-RED
- Center Square and Small Star Points: Main White C17580-WHITE
- Small Squares in Stars: Gingham Red C17583-RED
- Chain Blocks, 2 Fabrics: Floral Red C17587-RED and Fireworks White C17582-WHITE
- Background: Confetti Cotton in Coastal Blue C120-COASTALBLUE
- Binding: Gingham Red C17583-RED
Maybe you're nervous about using gingham fabric in a quilt, figuring they will end up crooked and visually meh? There are three ginghams in this collection; red, blue, and light blue, and they work even for block piecing because the check prints are printed so straight on the fabric. I'm impressed! ☑️
Firework Fields fabric is available here on Etsy.
The Shooting Stars quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.
Longarm Machine Quilting
This quilt was machine longarm quilted with a design called Feathered Stars by Melissa Kelley of Sew Shabby Pantos. This design has no backtracking. Quilted on my Handi Quilter Amara with ProStitcher in Superior Omni Big Springs 3111 Thread.
This quilt was pieced and quilted by Myra Barnes.
The backing fabric is a print from the Firework Fields collection, which includes white stars and red stripes on a light blue background. C17584-LIGHTBLUE
Get a Free Quilt Pattern!
Get a free pattern when you sign up to receive the latest info on what's happening in my studio, new quilt patterns, subscriber-only sales and Giveaways, quilty window shopping, and other fun news!
No comments:
Post a Comment
I love to hear your positive quilting comments!
All comments are moderated, so don't bother with the spam; it won't be posted; you're wasting your time. :)