Tell It To The Stars

Tell It To The Stars

Mystery Clue of the Month through PatchworkTimes.com

Beginning January 2014 – December 2014

Finished at 78″ x 97″.

Finished quilted and bound – 2/20/2016

Tell It To The Stars Finished and Bound 2/20/2016

Tell It To The Stars
Finished and Bound
2/20/2016

See Judy’s Description on her site for complete details.

Fabric is 100% cotton hand dyed from Vicki Welsh.

Forest Canopy Fabric from Vicki Welsh Arrived 1/9/14

Forest Canopy Fabric
from Vicki Welsh
Arrived 1/9/14

I started this mystery quilt because I loved the mystery quilt-a-longs with Bonnie Hunter.  But Bonnie’s is too fast and too many little pieces and in the worst time of year for me that I just end up with UFO after UFO each year.  I felt that Judy’s monthly Mystery Quilt was doable each month and smaller.  Plus I was able to purchase fabric.  When this project was getting started I didn’t have time to choose fabric.

 JANUARY, 2014

Tell It To The Stars Finished 1/11/2014

Tell It To The Stars
Finished
1/11/2014

 FEBRUARY, 2014

Tell It To The Stars 2 finished blocks 2/2/14

Tell It To The Stars
2 finished blocks
2/2/14

Tell It To The Stars Blocks 1 and 2 together February 2, 2014

Tell It To The Stars
Blocks 1 and 2 together
February 2, 2014

 

MARCH, 2014

Tell It To The Stars 3/17/14

Tell It To The Stars
3/17/14

APRIL, 2014

April Block 4/2/2014

April Block
4/2/2014

Tell It To The Stars Design Wall 4/2/14

Tell It To The Stars
Design Wall
4/2/14

May, 2014

Tell It To The Stars May Block 5/4/2014

Tell It To The Stars
May Block
5/4/2014

June, 2014

Tell It To The Stars June Block 7/19/2014

Tell It To The Stars
June Block
7/19/2014

July, 2014

Tell It To The Stars July Block 7/19/2014

Tell It To The Stars
July Block
7/19/2014

August, 2014

Tell It To The Stars August 08/01/2014

Tell It To The Stars
August
08/01/2014

September, 2014

Tell It To The Stars September Clue Design Wall 9/8/14

Tell It To The Stars
September Clue
Design Wall
9/8/14

October, 2014

Tell It To The Stars October 5, 2014

Tell It To The Stars
October 5, 2014

November, 2014

Tell It To The Stars 1 block from the November Clue 11/2/14

Tell It To The Stars
1 block from the November Clue
11/2/14

Tell It To The Stars 32 blocks from the November Clue 11/9/14

Tell It To The Stars
32 blocks from the November Clue
11/9/14

February, 2015

Tell It To The Stars with Borders #1 and #2 ...working on Border #2 2/8/15

Tell It To The Stars with Borders #1 and #2
…working on Border #2
2/8/15

 Tell It To The Stars Finished through Border #4 2/18/15

Tell It To The Stars
Finished through
Border #4
2/18/15

Tell It To The Stars Top Finished 2/22/2015

Tell It To The Stars
Top Finished
2/22/2015

2/25/2015 – Next I need to get a backing and quilt it.  I have a new mid arm but I’m hesitant to use this quilt to learn how to use the mid arm so I’m going to practice quilting Month by Month on the mid arm first.  Once I’m finished with that I’ll quilt Tell It To The Stars.

It took some time but I finally got the backing done for this.

Tell It To The Stars Back - so far 6/13/2015

Tell It To The Stars
Back – so far
6/13/2015

6/14/2015 – This picture doesn’t show the darker gray bordering the right and left of the back but I’ll have to post that at a different time.  Something I did differently on this back is that I put the label on before I quilted it.  I also pieced the back with some of the remaining pieces left over from the kit of hand dyed fabrics that I purchased.  I wanted to highlight the hand dyed fabric.  The grays are not hand dyed and but I felt it showed off the fabric best.  I originally purchased the darker gray but I didn’t like how it looked right next to the hand dyed fabric.  So I bought the lighter gray thinking I would use the darker gray for something else.  After I pieced the lighter gray onto the back it was still not big enough so I used the darker gray anyway.  Even then, I still didn’t have enough for all four sides so I went back to Quilt Emporium and bought an additional 2 yards for the remaining 2 sides.  I washed and got them pieced on today.

Tell It To The Stars Being quilted 11/15/2015

Tell It To The Stars
Being quilted
11/15/2015

 

Tell It To The Stars Off the Frame mostly quilted still need to quilt the borders 1/31/2016

Tell It To The Stars
Off the Frame
mostly quilted
still need to quilt the borders
1/31/2016

Finished and bound!

Tell It To The Stars Finished and Bound 2/20/2016

Tell It To The Stars
Finished and Bound
2/20/2016

Posts I mention this in:

I want to do this… I really do

Tell It To The Stars

Tell It To The Stars, January Clue

Tell It To The Stars, February Clue

tell-it-to-the-stars-update (June/July)

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