Wednesday 9 October 2013

WiP Wed – A constellation of Koi

 Progress! My single Koi stars have now become a lovely constellation all together in a happy little quilt top!

Koi Constellation quilt top

Sorry for the late afternoon stained-glass looking pic. I have very limited spots I can take photos of quilts at my house and I haven’t yet figured out the good spring-time-sun places! But you get the idea of how it looks!

Koi Star 1

So the fabric is Koi – and it’s oh so pretty. The pattern is Starlit by Heather Mulder Peterson from her book Living Large 2. Now the thing I love about this book is the quilts are all designed to show off larger scale fabric prints. I love being able to let the fabrics speak for themselves so this seemed the perfect pattern!

Koi Star 2

So now I must get busy. I have two lap size quilt tops to baste, quilt and bind. Both are destined to be end of year gifts for people important in my son’s life – his Kindy teacher and his Occupational Therapist. What better way to say thank you for their hard work than with a quilt!?

Oh and for the curious – thanks so much for the name suggestions for my Feathers quilt pattern – I’ve decided to name it Winterbound. Kind of  like… flying geese… geese fly south for the winter… quilts are made for winter… so winter bound. Well it makes sense in my head ;)

Feathers Paper Pieced Quilt

And that’s where I’m up to this WiP Wed! Now to get busy and turn these WiPs into FOs!

Wip Wed

26 comments:

  1. they are both amazing Kristy, and what fantastic gifts :-)

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  2. Like I need more fabric. But I think I want me some koi. :-)

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  3. Lovely! Now where are those basting/quilting fairies when you need them??

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  4. Love "Winterbound" - great name ... Happy basting and quilting :)

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  5. It's gorgeous Kristy a star of a quilt indeed! Basting is a necessary evil sadly, hope you fly through it quickly and get to the fun quilting sooner rather than later!

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  6. Love your Single Koi’s quilt and Winterbound sounds great for a feathery geese quilt!

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  7. Hard to pick a favorite here! Love them both for different reasons. Can't wait to see how you quilt these! Its always such a dilemma. The quilting has to make sense to me in some way, not that is would make sense to anyone else :)

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  8. I might need to get this book! Great job Kristy!

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  9. This quilt this quilt is gorgeous Kristy!!! Love!!!

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  11. Koi is looking great, and Winterbound is perfect!

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  12. Your Koi quilt is looking so wonderful ~ the blocks are much larger than I thought!

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  13. Both of your quilts look great, I can't wait to see how you quilt them.

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  14. Loving both of these! That Koi constellation is pretty amazing.

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  15. Pretty! And I LOVE the name "Winterbound.". It's perfect.

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  16. Great choice for Winterbound! It is perfect for it!
    Those stars look like stained-glass-windows from medieval buildings!
    Esther
    esthersipatchandquilt at yahoo dot com

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  17. Ooh, cool quilt! I need to go look for that book.

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  18. Your stars are gorgeous. Visiting from WIP

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  19. Love both projects. When my boys were little I used to make quilts as gifts for everyone in their lives too. Now that they are teens... they just know too many people. I am so glad there are people out there still doing it.

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  20. Loving both Kristy! And you are making it so hard for me to resist my copy of Starlit! I have no time for another project right now!

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  21. The Koi quilt turned out great! : )

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  22. Love both quilts! The Koi is amazing with the colors against the gray. Love the Winterbound name!

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  23. they look so good! you are very talented!

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