I've had this Star of David quilt done for a couple days now and I promised to post a picture of it so here you are. As I mentioned, I'm not sure how satisfied I am with this quilt. I mean, where do you put a Star of David quilt in your house? It is an odd size; that's what made it interesting for me to begin with, a hexagon quilt! It doesn't really hang flat unless all the points are pinned to the wall. It took me a long time to figure out what to do about the
quilting. Machine for sure, but what? I started with invisible thread but then couldn't seen
any quilting so changed to light blue which was almost white. I made a star in the center, stitched in the ditch around the star and feathered in the diamonds. I even got a few leaves in the border but they aren't so beautiful. Well, Patora likes it!
Can you tell what I'm doing with the hammer? Jane on
sew create it had a post on this cute little craft and I'm not one to limit myself to quilting so I had to try it. Went to the craft store, bought some buttons to cover with fabric,
hammered down the thing-a-ma-bob on the back side that you sew the thread through (this was a step I wasn't counting on. On Jane's website you could
just pull out this wire on the back) covered the buttons, hot-bonded a thumbtack to the back and
voila! one of a kind thumbtacks! So cute! I made a batch for myself,
some for a friend and I'm planning to go back and get some more buttons so I can give them to other quilting friends! And as an exchange (that neither of us had planned) my friend gave me a pincushion that she had crocheted herself. So nice to have such generous friends!
I've had this Star of David quilt done for a couple days now and I promised to post a picture of it so here you are. As I mentioned, I'm not sure how satisfied I am with this quilt. I mean, where do you put a Star of David quilt in your house? It is an odd size; that's what made it interesting for me to begin with, a hexagon quilt! It doesn't really hang flat unless all the points are pinned to the wall. It took me a long time to figure out what to do about the
quilting. Machine for sure, but what? I started with invisible thread but then couldn't seen any quilting so changed to light blue which was almost white. I made a star in the center, stitched in the ditch around the star and feathered in the diamonds. I even got a few leaves in the border but they aren't so beautiful. Well, Patora likes it!
Can you tell what I'm doing with the hammer? Jane on sew create it had a post on this cute little craft and I'm not one to limit myself to quilting so I had to try it. Went to the craft store, bought some buttons to cover with fabric, hammered down the thing-a-ma-bob on the back side that you sew the thread through (this was a step I wasn't counting on. On Jane's website you could
just pull out this wire on the back) covered the buttons, hot-bonded a thumbtack to the back and voila! one of a kind thumbtacks! So cute! I made a batch for myself, 
some for a friend and I'm planning to go back and get some more buttons so I can give them to other quilting friends! And as an exchange (that neither of us had planned) my friend gave me a pincushion that she had crocheted herself. So nice to have such generous friends!
8 comments:
I LOVE the Star of David quilt! It looks complicated to piece. Was it? I saw the post with the buttons too and thought how cute they are. Tanya, you are a busy, busy person - quilting, and teaching, and now button covering! You make me smile because you have so much energey!
Yes, is for piano lesson.I'm glad you like.Lovely your star of David.
Nice buttons/push-pins! They look really fab...aren't they addictive though? I can't wait to make more.
Very cute thumbtacks. We call them drawing pins in New Zealand.
Great, the Star Quilt. The cat like it, too :-)
Oh, I know the bottons to cover I learned it many years ago, while my professional training for dressmaker. It is not easy, but it looks wonderful.
I wanted award you for the Thinking Blogger Award but you got it already :-)
Beautiful quilt, must have been difficult with all those Y seams, you did a great job.
I like very much your star and your buttons, I love your blog it's full of ideas. Great!
I love this Star of David quilt! Did you use a pattern? If so, where did you get it?
Thanks,
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