{Post #92} Progress on Replacing Boo Boo Blocks

Making wonderful progress on the wedding quilt!  I sewed in 3 pictures and removed the scribbled blocks and moved one of the pink blocks.  I am really liking this.  I debated whether to use black and white pictures or color.  I opted to go with color, and I think it adds to the quilt overall.

One of our church members is a pastor in Japan.  He wrote a Japanese greeting on his square.  I wonder what it says?

The top left picture on this next block is the bride and her daddy at rehearsal.  I love both of their expressions.  The bottom right picture is their best man and maid of honor, who are siblings.

A relocated pink block and another picture...from their engagement photos.  I have my resources!

{Post #91} Wedding Quilt

Here is the wedding quilt with signatures and well wishes.  I think most of the people at the wedding got to sign it.  Some got a little too exuberant:

The whole top laid on my bed:

I will separate these two pink sentiments:

Here are two pages of pictures I printed on "Printed Treasures" (by Milliken) which was one of the original fabric sheets for inkjet printers.  I have probably had them for 10 years.  Here they are printed on the fabric.

There are about 40 blank squares right now.  I am going to cut these apart and place them randomly around the quilt top.  I am also going to remove the scribbled ones and separate the pink ones.  It will involve quite a bit of ripping out and resewing, but that's what I do.

{Post #90} Ribbon Machine Quilting

I am on the last row of stars on the machine quilting for my Charming Stars quilt.  Here is what inspired the design in the sashing and around the stars.  It's from the quilt show on 6.13.13.  I don't like the quilt or the colors, but the quilting was an inspiration!

Makes a very soft and supple quilt.  :)

{Post #89} Quilting on Charming Stars

Here is the beginning of my Charming Stars quilting.  I have done nearly two rows out of the four.  I will go back at the end and do all the inner and outer border quilting.  It's too much back and forth to do it as I roll it up.  

My design is simple.  I like quilts to be supple.  Yesterday I went to a quilt show in a tiny town west of here.  Most of the quilts were STIFF with dense quilting that was magnificent.  So magnificent that the piecing and pattern were overlooked.  I like to showcase the fabrics and pattern.

Here is the design I'm doing in all the blocks.  My formerly drawn pattern has now translated to fabric.  I am doing a ribbon meander around each star with ribbons in the sashing as well.

I will see my sister next month, so I figured I better get crackin' on this.  I did a hooked feather in the outer border. I REALLY like those.  Very easy and so impressive looking.  I did one on here: