Stars in the Garden

Ruth, a new to me client wowed me when she pulled this amazing quilt of out her bag!

  The pattern is called Stars in the Garden from Piece O' Cake Designs.

Ruth is a master of hand applique!  I stitched around all the applique with Micro Quilter thread which is 100wt, so it is a virtually invisible.   Ruth opted for Quilter's Dream Puff batting and the loft it gave to the applique was very pleasing.

In order to keep the quilt soft we opted to not fully fill the background with echoes or pebbles, but just filled in the larger spaces with curls and a leafy motif.

I stitched in the ditch around the inner green border and added simple curls to the outer border.

The above Hydrangea block is certainly a labour of love!