Star-Crossed

Is it too early to call it? I'll do it anyway: Star-Crossed is my favorite finish of the year! I know the year is not even half-done, but I just have a feeling about this one.

The pattern is Star Plus and the pattern designer is Quiet Play. But perhaps one of the reasons this quilt is so precious to me is because it is absolutely non-repeatable. I have no idea what fabric line I used for this, so there's just no way I can make another one just like it. I know, however, that I purchased this fabric bundle quite awhile ago, before I learned that I should buy multiples of what I love, so this is it ... and I have no idea what it is.

I call my blog Savor Every Stitch but let's face it, sometimes it's hard to do that. But not this quilt, I know I enjoyed every part of putting it together, from the piecing to the quilting. The star attraction of this quilt is the fabrics, so the quilting is really minimal in comparison. I mostly did geometric dot-to-dot design that is quick to execute.

Since the scrappy nature of this quilt is the reason it shines, the quilting is consistent in every block to tie it together. I couldn't resist however quilting a little dense swirly design in the Grunge white fabrics. I had to quilt the swirls blind as it's virtually impossible to see the quilting when I'm doing it.

So here's a happy coincidence ... I named this quilt Star-Crossed because I like the phrase "star-crossed lovers", and the original name is Star Plus. It wasn't until I was almost done quilting it that I realized Star-Crossed is a very fitting name because the blocks are a bunch of colored crosses. Wow, I can't believe I never saw that the whole time I was piecing!

Just like last year, I hope to turn out one quilt a month this year, and so far I'm still on track for the year. Although my summer and fall seasons are quite busy usually so we'll see. I'm quite excited about the lineup for the year though, but as I said in the beginning ... I do think this is my favorite for the year, the unicorn nature of the fabric makes it kind of hard to top, and to me, fabric is king.