Hidden Star

Here's my first quilt photographed with ym new camera I'm thrilled with the improvement in clarity around the edges of the quilt, though I still have a lot to learn to get the best of of the camera.

Hidden Star is ready to give to one of the staff at James and Eleanor's chid care centre when she returns from holiday next week. It's around 55" square.

While I can't say I particularly like this quilt, I am really pleased with the effect of the quilting. I'm really hoping the staff I make quilts for this year do NOT choose pastels!

The feathery design was inspierd by Carla.

However, If I were quiting again, I'd just mirror the triangular feathers in the alternate squares, rather than do the weird two-size fleur-de-lis type things I ended up with.

I actually quilted the narrow border after binding it. I wanted to see how it would look unquilted ( it looked unfinished!) but I also felt that I risked distorting the border and therefore the quilt shape if I quilted it first.

It's been finished a while, waiting for time, suitable weather, and the new camera; this was the last quilt of 2009.