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Friday, March 6, 2020

It's a Top! Feathered Star

 Feathered Star
It's a top!
80 1/2 x 97 3/4

I blogged last month a little bit about this UFO started in March 2018. Last month I vowed to work on it a little bit every day until I had a top. My determination paid off. 

I love novelty fabrics and have quite a few collections of different themes. This quilt came out of the chickens and roosters box. I fussy cut some big prints for the star centers but really didn't make a dent in the poultry fabrics.   I'm always looking for different ways to use large print novelties and sometimes a play on words triggers a quilt. Why not use chickens and roosters and make them the Feathered Stars! (Crazy, I know!) 

 Pattern is from 19th Century Patchwork Divas' Treasury of Quilts by Betsy Chutchian and Carol Staehle. 


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24 comments:

  1. Karen - Quilts...etc.March 6, 2020 at 7:26 AM

    that is a nice large quilt - love the pattern

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  2. AnonymousMarch 6, 2020 at 7:57 AM

    Another spectacular quilt!! I am awed by your work.

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  3. Carla A Few Of My Favorite ThingsMarch 6, 2020 at 8:16 AM

    Wow so much work in these feathered stars. You make me wish I had collected novelty prints as they make such wonderful quilts

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  4. Gretchen WeaverMarch 6, 2020 at 8:27 AM

    Wonderful!! I want to make a large feathered star quilt someday, I love you how have stars in the corners of the sashing. Beautiful! Please don't put it in a drawer for awhile, I want to see how you quilt it!

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  5. QuiltGramMarch 6, 2020 at 8:35 AM

    Stunning folk art quilt (as it appears to me), from the chickens and the vast variety of fabrics. This quilt needs to grace one of the quilt magazines.

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  6. ---"Love"March 6, 2020 at 9:06 AM

    There's another very lovely quilt! I just don't know how you get so much done --- everyday! ---"Love"

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  7. ElleMarch 6, 2020 at 9:11 AM

    WOW! That is a gorgeous quilt!!! Your perseverance has a huge payoff on this one. :-)

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  8. Alycia~QuiltygirlMarch 6, 2020 at 10:09 AM

    Oh that is spectacular!!!

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  9. SandyPAMarch 6, 2020 at 2:00 PM

    I like this quilt! Congratulations on finishing this top! Sandy at sewhigh.blogspot.com

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  10. Sue SAMarch 6, 2020 at 2:13 PM

    Fantastic finish and great use of your chook fabric collection!

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  11. gayleMarch 6, 2020 at 4:35 PM

    Feathered stars + chickens? Sets my heart aflutter! LOVE it!

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  12. Nancy Near PhiladelphiaMarch 6, 2020 at 5:15 PM

    I like it. A whole lot.

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  13. cityquilter graceMarch 6, 2020 at 5:26 PM

    lots of work but done very well...

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  14. Pamela ArbourMarch 6, 2020 at 7:30 PM

    That is beautiful

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  15. Janice HoltonMarch 6, 2020 at 8:01 PM

    How do you do it? It seems like every time I read your blog you have another finish! And they are always spectacular! Jealous. :)

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  16. Magpie SueMarch 6, 2020 at 8:01 PM

    That's the quilt I was going to make some 30 years ago - before I had the skills to pull it off - with chickens in the centers of the stars. :D Well done!

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  17. LouiseMarch 6, 2020 at 9:17 PM

    Love it! I'm a sucker for chicken fabrics, and the feathered star block is a real beauty. The combo is making me cluck with admiration :)

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  18. Cynthia@wabi-sabi-quiltsMarch 7, 2020 at 12:49 AM

    Congratulations on finishing this top! What a creative and clever way to use novelty fabrics. From far away, you can't tell what the "theme" is - then the closer you look, you see the feathered friends (stars;)).

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  19. LauraMarch 7, 2020 at 6:24 AM

    Wow! I love it! :)

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  20. Elizabeth V KelbaughMarch 7, 2020 at 6:32 AM

    Fabulous! You truly made the chickens the feathered stars.

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  21. Karen in Breezy PointMarch 7, 2020 at 10:15 AM

    Wow--it's whimsical and gorgeous all in one--wonderful finish!

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  22. JennyMarch 7, 2020 at 8:50 PM

    What's not to love about chickens and roosters? It's a great quilt, although I have to admit I would never attempt a feathered star, all those tiny pieces!

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  23. Quilter KathyMarch 8, 2020 at 10:03 AM

    Your creativity is amazing... that word play inspiration lead to this amazing quilt is so cool!

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  24. MissPatMarch 10, 2020 at 11:42 AM

    I had to chuckle that you had a chicken and roosters box (and still lots lots of poultry left). Inspired to use them in a feathered star.
    Pat

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