It's Wednesday!

Nantucket is home from the quilter.  I pieced Nantucket with a few blogging friends last November, and now it's done and back home.

Connie Lancaster at Quilts Plus in Indianapolis, IN quilted this one for me.

I love he feathers in the big stars.

The border is just as amazing.  See that little quilted start in the plain carmel square.   Those are randomly placed in the border just like my pieced stars.

I was so happy with this quilt it went from the box to the red couch.

I'm going to have a Hook for the parade, how about you?

I'm using Little Black Dress 2 by BasicGrey for Moda.   I'm making my spinning stars a little bigger.  I cut my strips 6 inches wide which is producing a block about twice as big as the block in the pattern.  My favorite thing, that Grunge background! It really warms up the prints.  More about Hook next time. I hope you're planning on being in the parade!

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Nantucket, all done!

This project was nothing but fun.  I enjoyed every minute in my sewing room while working on this quilt, I loved the reds and I loved the pattern.  I changed my quilt ever so slightly, for the border I made my 9 patches out of the light background fabric and used the tans for the squares.  The center stars are more of a controlled scrappy, not a full blown scrappy.  Oh, and I added 9 tiny stars to that outer border, a suggestion from a friend.

This is Lifetime Quilt Number 120

It finished at 67" x 67"

The pattern is Nantucket by Minick & Simpson

The fabric is Midwinter Reds by Minick & Simpson for Moda (wovens and cottons)

It has approximately 1,187 pieces.

Be on the lookout for more Nantuckets, several quilters are sewing along with me.  And it doesn't matter who finishes first or last, we all just need to finish.  The quilt it too pretty not to be on your bed, and soon!  

I have more Midwinter Reds fabric, this won't be the last quilt you see using that fabric from my sewing room!

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Nantucket Progress

So now that the big center stars are done for Nantucket,  I've started working on the border pieces.  I've had several things going on outside my sewing room but have enjoyed small stretches of serenity while in my sewing room.

The piecing is easy, relaxing, and I'm loving all these reds.  I'm also listening to a good mystery book (Cuckoos Calling by Robert Galbraith) while I sew, it's all made for a great week.  Several of my friends are also sewing away on Nantucket which adds to the fun.  

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9 Big Red Stars?

Check!  

Here's the center of my Nantucket top.  I'm showing you my whole design wall so you get a feel for the size of those stars, they're huge!

 I'm adding some of the plaids/wovens from the Midwinter Reds collection and am not going totally scrappy like the pattern.  I can hardly wait to see how these big star blocks look surrounded by 9 patches.

Here's a little refresher of the original pattern.

Darlene at Quilting Daze, Vicky at LA Quilter, Sue at Cozy Little Quilts, and Jennifer at Seams Crazy are sewing along with us. Their blogs are in my blog list so be on the lookout for their Nantucket updates as well as the ones from Nicole/Sisters Choice, Lisa/Stashmaster and Sinta/ Pink Pincushion.

We're just getting started, so feel to join the Nantucket sew along too, the more the merrier!

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