Showing posts with label Forever Stars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Forever Stars. Show all posts

January 5, 2022

Forever Stars Throw Quilt in Red White and Blue!

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Today I'm sharing a quick and easy Forever Stars quilt in red, white, and blue!  Forever Stars is a pattern released last year.  It is definitely a quick pattern with the large pieces.

The Forever Stars quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.



All the Sizes!


The Forever Stars quilt pattern includes all the sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King. Whichever size you're after, the pattern has you covered.  And you'll use it again and again when you see how quickly it goes together and that it has every size you'll need.  

This quilt is the Throw size.

Baby Size 48" x 48"

Lap Size 48" x 64"

Throw Size 64" x 80"

Twin Bed Size 64" x 88"

Queen Bed Size 96" x 104"

King Bed Size 112" x 112"



Giant Stars!


The stars are gloriously huge and oh - so - breathtaking!  Their large size makes a very stunning quilt.  The picture below shows the quilt on a Twin size bed which really shows how big the stars are.  

Forever Stars would be a beautiful quilt for the Quilt of Valor program for veterans.






Fabric Selection


This Forever Stars Quilt is made with four fabrics from my stash, two medium blues and two reds, all with white in them.  The background is solid white.  The backing is a white fabric with red stars.  Most of these fabrics are from Riley Blake Designs.

The pattern is written for four fabrics making up each star.  Scraps would make a beautiful quilt with each star made with four fabrics with a wide variety of fabrics among the stars.



Quick and Easy Quilt Pattern


Forever Stars is a quick and easy quilt pattern!  It's a nice balance of half-square triangles and simple squares.  Paired with the large pieces, this makes a very quick quilt to make.

This pattern is suitable for beginning quilters who have a few quilts under their belts.  Instructions on how to make HSTs is included in the pattern, but general quilt-making skills such as how to cut fabric, are not taught in the pattern.  


Longarm Quilting


This Throw size quilt is quilted with a swirl and echoed star quilting design in white thread on my HandiQuilter Fusion with ProStitcher.  

This quilt pattern would look great quilted with straight lines or diagonal lines, or even a simple meander.



The binding is the same blue as one of the blues in the stars, made from leftover backing fabric.


The Forever Stars quilt pattern is available in the Busy Hands Quilts shop.

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November 17, 2021

Forever Stars Throw Quilt Kit in Hometown Americana Vol 3!

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Forever Stars has been kitted in the Throw size by Connecting Threads in their Hometown Americana Vol 3 fabric collection!  This is a big bold star quilt in lovely Americana colors of navy and brick red.



The Forever Stars quilt pattern includes 6 sizes - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King, and is very quick with those huge stars!


The quilt kit is available right here.



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August 27, 2021

Forever Stars Throw Quilt in Hometown Americana!

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This week I finished a Forever Stars quilt in the Throw size.  Oh my, how I love those giant stars!  




The Quilt Kit!


Forever Stars has been kitted in the Throw size by Connecting Threads in their Hometown Americana Vol 3 fabric collection.  This quilt is made from their kit.  This fabric collection is printed on premium Luxe cotton grown in the USA.  It's a lovely collection of muted reds and navys.  The background fabric is a Faux Linen in navy, adding a lovely dimension to the quilt top.   Check out the quilt kit right here.

This quilt top was pieced by my sewist Joanne and quilted and bound by me.



All the Sizes!


The Forever Stars quilt pattern includes all the sizes - 6 in all - Baby Lap Throw Twin Queen and King - so you're covered no matter which size of quilt you'd like to make.  I am all about spoilin' you with many sizes in most all of the patterns I write.



Can You Say "Huge Stars"?


Yep, the stars in this quilt are huge.  I squealed when I first saw this design sewn up, because I couldn't tell on a computer screen how deliciously large the stars actually were.  Really big indeed! That makes for a quilt quilt finish, too!




Longarm Quilting


This Forever Stars quilt is quilted with a waving flag and star design in navy thread on my HandiQuilter Fusion with ProStitcher, the perfect complement to the patriotic colors and design of the quilt.






So Many Fabric Options!


Forever Stars is written for four prints plus a background fabric, but you can let your imagination run and discover that this design will look great with each star made from a single fabric, or the entire quilt made from scraps.  I have one of single-colored stars in solids on a gray background cut and ready to go, waiting its turn to be pieced.





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