StellarQuilts

Happy September!

Does anyone else prefer the new academic 📚✏️year to the new calendar 🗓️ year?
There's nothing like new stationery to give you a boost!

Just wanted to say thanks, congrats and a big well done to the team on the Modern Gallery (Gallery 5 on the map) at ending Sunday 4th August.

A great showcase of the first 10 years of this special interest group. Chosen quilts highlight the diversity within modern quilting.

A lovely, friendly and supportive group of quilters with bags of knowledge and experience too! Swaps and challenges throughout the year and opportunities to exhibit with the group. Come and join us by adding to your Guild membership!

Loved the Rogues' Gallery around the outside too.
This is Fragmentations by founding member Helen Howes.

So lovely to meet most of our virtual quilting bee today at ! Catherine and Jo, sorry to miss you!

We collaborated on TWO blue improv quilts, one is Tangled Up in Blue, GR-32 in Group Category and its sibling quilt is Still Blue, hanging in the Modern Gallery 5.
Thanks to everyone who contributed, it was great fun!

Final day of is FoQ must-sees and must-dos!
Thanks .campion for the prompts this week and to everyone who has joined in!

Day 4 of is Top tips
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Thank you Anna for this lovely postcard received as part of European Postcard Swap. Thanks Bea for organising! Thanks to also for the tutorial!

Day 3 of is Favourites. I found it hard to choose one, so picked a few in each category!
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Day 1 of is Introductions ahead of next week.
Thanks for organising and .campion

One of my offerings, 'Blue ... with a hint of pink', for the 'Predominantly Blue' Challenge, open to all members of the and taking place at
https://www.quiltfestnorth.org.uk/ this October at https://astleypark.co.uk/ in Chorley.

Still plenty of time to enter, as closing date for entries is 31 Aug and specified size is quite small (12.5" x 12.5") so quite doable before the deadline!

Improv machine pieced cotton and linen, wool batting, machine quilted with cotton and silk thread and pieced single-layer binding.

This little baby is on its way its new home 🏡
Quilt for a baby boy whose nursery has a grey and green forest theme.

variation with 12" blocks, machine pieced. Easy design uses only squares and half square triangles.
Free machine quilting in a leafy design on my domestic using variegated

Calling it Shoofly Pie.

Just realised I finished my first quilt 4 years ago this month! How long have you been a quiltmaker?
How has your style changed over the years and what have you learned?

Share your to illustrate your journey!

My first quilt (bottom) was a pattern I found in a sewing magazine by Nettie Petersen (?) but I kept the pattern for a few years before making it.
My last (solo finished) quilt was an improv striped affair for a colleague baby inspired by

I learnt so much on this course with School of Stitched Textiles, I highly recommend their online distance learning courses

Juliet West (StellarQuilts) enrolled with us back in February 2021. She chose to study our Skill Stage 3 Textiles course because she wanted to study machine embroidery and patchwork & quilting.

For Juliet, our textiles course was an ideal choice as it combines the two. Having completed her course Juliet was selected by her course tutor to feature in our 2023 Student Exhibitions Awards, Skill Stage 3 Exhibition. She was put forward in recognition of her progress and creativity. This is her .

https://www.sofst.org/graduate-story-juliet-west-textiles/

👉 click the link in our bio
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Excited to be sending off three of my journal quilts from 2023 on the theme of 'Words' for exhibition at .mill from 10 July to 15 September, then onto Tremain, Ceredigion from 27 to 29 September.

Organised by , a special interest group of
Thank you for the opportunity!

It is sure to be a great show, judging by the other JQs I have seen from members of this group!

Progress shot for Shoofly baby quilt
And now to quilting!

Working on a new baby quilt for a friend.
Loving this colour combination!

I've been testing out these new paint markers given to me by earlier this month. They are pretty pastel colours, slightly thinner consistency than other brands I have used, which works well for layering colours and creating new hues. I will definitely be adding them to my stash of acrylic paint markers and use them for my quilt designs.

This recent finish has now gone to its new home so I can post it here!
Improv baby quilt, machine pieced and big stitch hand quilted.

Took a trip to at today to see the quilts in competition, including this one by me!
This is Better Together, in the theme category of 'An Olympic Year'. Improv curves and hand quilting.
Lots of good traders and exhibits and free parking. Might have bought some fabric 🙄

These postcards will be heading to for stand, celebrating 45 years!

The first of a few Sapphire theme quilted postcards, 5'' square for 45 years of

These will be on sale at in August as a fundraiser for the guild
Flip and stitch freehand log cabin with machine quilting on felt, then interfacing, bondaweb and scrim backing

Joining in with Construction zone for

Enjoying some big stitch hand quilting with embroidery thread while on holiday
Combining peachy tones with reds, blues, beiges and greys in these improv strips for an imminent special arrival

These three quilts of mine were made for the for Festival of Quilts last year.
They are now part of a display at stand K18 in Glasgow till Sunday and they look amazing all together!
The top one was inspired by the tutorial by and has at least a couple of cousin quilts nearby! All are 20 inches square.

So excited to see my two pieces Angles #1 and Curved #1 hanging at the for Visual Arts Cheshire https://www.facebook.com/share/Y2qBQvzRGyiLiSWe/?mibextid=K35XfP
private view last night in the company of lots of other great work.
Exhibition runs till 22 March Northwich
Both pieces are for sale and started as part of the challenge with and

This is 'Screened'
Part of my series for 'Hidden', the theme for journal quilts for 2024 with
Inspired by decorative screens from India, with a seascape behind.
Bottom layer is pieced and quilted, top layer is turned edge appliqué, embroidered and quilted.