Christmas Stars: 2004-2008

This machine-pieced and machine-quilted wallhanging in various Christmas prints of blue, gold, green, and red is from a pattern called "Morning Stars" in Nickel Quilts by Pat Speth and Charlene Thode. The main part was not too difficult (although I now hate working with those 1 1/2" squares), but I left it for several years after finishing about half the border.

When my quilt guild announced that the Dec 2008 program would be a show-and-tell of Christmas quilt projects, I decided to make myself figure out how to finish this quilt quickly -- and without making any more star blocks. I used dark red cotton lame for the border, using half of the star blocks around two corners, and half of the border with matching machine quilted stars. It is quilted in straight lines with metallic gold thread.