It's a Finish!

Sixteen Patch Stars

60 x 84

It's a finish!

This will be a donation quilt. 

I started making the blocks as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project to use up scraps from my 3.5 width bin in 2018 and I continued making them through 2019. 

The Sixteen Patches also all have stars although not all of them show up very well until you get closer. 

This is one of the quilts that helped me finally empty the 3. 5 inch scrap bin. 

I wasn't sure what color I should use for the binding. I wished I had a rainbow stripe but didn't so I looked into my leftover binding bin and found a few gray pieces so thought that would do. I cut more gray binding from a stash of small gray chunks. 

I used light gray thread (which is why I thought the gray would be okay for binding) 

and as you can see I quilted echoed (kind of) diagonal wavy lines on my DSM. This was my first try at this and I had to rip out the first four lines because they were all puckered. I didn't put enough pins in for this type of quilting so after ripping I added more pins and the quilting was easier. And I looked at the back after each line was quilted after that to be sure there were no problems. 

 The back is a light blue and gently used sheet I picked up at the thrift store eons ago. 

And on to the next! 

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