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Quilting: Dancing with the Star (Fish)
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Dancing with the Star (Fish)

Dancing with the Star Fish

Dancing with the Star Fish
Setting Block
Sailor's Delight
Sailor's Delight Half Block
Star Fish Block

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This project was made as part of a Craftsy course:
Quick-Strip Paper Piecing »

Instructions

This quilt incorporated Peggy Martin's strip paper piecing block - Sailor's Delight for the center and top and bottom half stars. The setting was inspired by a quilt pattern from Kim Diehl and the star fish blocks were my own design.
Category: Quilting

Type of item: Functional

For: Home

Style: Whimsical

Materials

100% Cotton Fabrics. The colors were all from a 24 set of coordinating fat quarters from Blank Fabric. The background was a combination of medium and light tone on tone grays.

What was your inspiration?

I've just started to learn to applique and I took Peggy Martin's strip paper piecing and I wanted to incorporate the two techniques into a project with traditional piecing.

What are you most proud of?

I had the set of coordinating 24 fat quarters from Blank Fabrics that I won at a guild meeting. I don't typically like really bright colors so using them ALL in the project was really a stretch for me.

 

12 comments

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Shiksa Wife on craftsy.com
Shiksa Wife
Mar 19, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
What a fun quilt!
Lauraquilts2 on craftsy.com
Lauraquilts2
Jan 09, 2013    Flag as inappropriate
This quilt is absolutely fabulous, I love the colors!
heatherqu935203 on craftsy.com
heatherqu935203
Dec 05, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
I love this quilt. What a great layout.
lrmyr18 on craftsy.com
lrmyr18
Oct 27, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Very nicely done! Love the grey shadow background for the colorful stars of all kinds.
SusanQuiltsNCat on craftsy.com
SusanQuiltsNCat
Oct 28, 2012   Flag as inappropriate
Thank you. I had the grays (both the medium and light gray) for quite a while and never could work them into a quilt until now. The gray was perfect to tone down all the bright fabrics yet still let's them shine.
Darns on craftsy.com
Darns
Oct 15, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
This is great! Love the starfish & the whole arrangement. Get out of your comfort zone more often with bright colors - you're good at it!
Peggy Martin on craftsy.com
Peggy Martin
Craftsy Instructor
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Fantastic quilt!! It is such fun to combine different blocks, and you did a masterful job marrying all of these together to make a wonderful design. I love the whimsy of the starfish appliques, and, of course, your name for the quilt is just too much fun!! So glad you made this incredible quilt and shared it with all of us!
2strings on craftsy.com
2strings
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
The starfish are so original & a perfect fit with the mariner's compass blocks. Great use of colors, but above all I love the name you've given this quilt.
KarenFSP on craftsy.com
KarenFSP
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
What fun! Looks great!
Surfside6 on craftsy.com
Surfside6
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
very imaginative. Looks terrific
mommabee24 on craftsy.com
mommabee24
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Great job. Your creative side really shows with this wonderful quilt.
Needlecat on craftsy.com
Needlecat
Oct 14, 2012    Flag as inappropriate
Well this is just lovely! Love the bright colors and the starfish are such a whimsically fun surprise!

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