Free Motion Friday - Karen's Quilt

Karen sent this stunning quilt:

I have some mad love for this quilt. I got very excited when it showed up in my email. (What's that? You want to make my day to? Email your quilt top to kathleen(at)kathleenquilts.com)

Karen says:

   I am a new subscriber to your blog. I love your Freemotion Friday feature. I am sending in a picture of my Star Surround quilt. The pattern is from Melissa Corry at Happyquiltingmelissa.com. It is 96x96 inches. I love the yellow and gray colorway, but I am now stuck when I think about quilting it. What color thread would you use? I would love to see how you would quilt this one.

So here we go!

I started by adding some straight lines in the negative space to emphasize a square there. I'd put the first line 1/2 inch from the black line, and the next 1/4 in from that.

You can see nothing of what is happening in that picture. You might have noticed. So we'll zoom in on that one area.

So, you can see the straight lines to make the on-point box from the first step. then I added lines to split the box into quarters, and filled two with a back and forth design, and two with ribbon candy. Then the center square, filled two quarters with back and forth, and two with a point-to-point.

In the smaller white on-point squares, i added some dot-to-dot with ribbon candy.

Next, the stars.

First, I added straight lines to the block emphasize the square shape.

Next up, I added a back and forth design to the triangles and the larger space on the white.

In the star itself, I alternated between pure ribbon candy, and a dot-to-dot diamond filled with ribbon candy. (Have I mentioned recently how much I LOVE ribbon candy?

Next up, on the black.

I'm not going to lie to you guys, I actually forgot the black. I got to the picture before this one and was like "look, I'm done"... then remembered the black.

Ok, so, more squares/straight lines in the black, filled with ribbon candy, and ribbon candy in the triangles.

So that's Karen's rather delightful quilt! Remember, if you want to let me play with your quilt, email a picture to kathleen(at)kathleenquilts.com.

Later days! Kathleen.