I started this create spring quilt that was inspired by jasmine back in late April / early May.  You can see the first post on this quilt here.  I have been working on this quilt little by little on the weekends and really tried to take my time.  Well, it is now finished.  Yes, it is finished. I tried to take my time on every step of this quilt and as always, tried something new.

As a reminder, this is the fabric that I started with from Simplify by Camille Roskelley.

The pattern is from Fresh Vintage Sewing by Fig Tree Quilts.  

One of the great parts about this quilt is that the blocks are very large and the quilt comes together fairly quickly for such a large quilt.  The one thing I might do differently next time is pick a slightly darker color for the inside of the star blocks.  I selected a light green dot on white background fabric which doesn’t show well unless you are in person.  This is the quilt top below before any borders were added or before Baja the yellow lab curled up in this chair!

This quilt has two borders; first a smaller framing border followed by a larger and wider border.  Check out an earlier post for my method of measuring and making your borders perfect.  You can see this post here.

Here is the finished quilt top.  This is when the next step begins of adding your batting and backing.  This was such a large quilt that I had to find just the right place to layer the batting and backing.  Here’s the link to the tutorial on how I create my quilt sandwiches…

Here is the quilt in the midst of quilting.  I quilt my quilts on my Bernina machine which sometimes can take some muscle given the throat size of the machine and the need to navigate a large quilt through.  I quilted the entire quilt over a series of two days so that I didn’t wear out my shoulders.

I typically use a stippling pattern to quilt most of my quilts simply because it is what I am most comfortable with.  Over the last two years, I have branched out and tried some different patterns.  This time, I decided to quilt some designs that just seemed right for this quilt.

Here is the completed quilt with the binding added on.  You will see that I used several quilt methods throughout the quilt including using some special quilting in the blocks themselves as shown above, stippling on the border and a wavy pattern on on the corners near the appliqué.  The tutorial for my appliqué method is on a post a few weeks ago and you can see it here.

I used a scallop/stripe fabric for the binding in a green fabric which turned out really well.  I tend to love stripes for binding as they add just the right element to the edge of a quilt.  It’s like a good picture frame.

And, here is the finished quilt hanging in the fresh air.

This was a fun quilt to make.  I even added my own elements of appliqué to the quilt which were not included in the original pattern.  I was inspired by the blooming jasmine in my yard initially and my inspiration turned into this.  Take not of the inspiration in your everyday world….you will be surprised what you notice.

 If you are interested in purchasing this quilt, you can now buy it on etsy.   Check out my etsy store here.