Okay I finally managed to wrangle the Starry Night quilt top enough to get some photos. I must admit there are a few strangling pieces of paper still attached to the back…
but I promised a reveal today so here goes…
As you know, if you have followed this quilts progress, I did not have a plan of how to put this together. I just went with the flow, putting pieces up on the design wall and jigsawing the blocks into a top (a technical maneuver I do not want to attempt again!).
My design wall was too small for it, so I had pieces hanging off the wall and laying on the floor….
My first step was to arrange the star blocks in a rough layout that made sure that they were as evenly distributed and as balanced as I could get them.
I carefully placed the bigger stars around the quilt making sure that the fractured stars were separated as well as the ringed stars. I wanted the eye to move around the top exploring and I felt this was the best way to do it.
I then I placed the smaller stars in the gaps!
Finally I just filled all the spaces with scrappy blue blocks… and voila… you have a finished quilt top. A scrappy, random, crazy quilt top.
WOMBAT QUILTS 
It’s all been said before – but WOW, it’s a wonderful quilt!
Do you have the patterns for the stars for sale? This quilt is out of this world! Please respond to: barbyocom@comcast.net. Many thanks!
This is just so gorgeous!
Gorgeous. I love the top middle star. The blue with white circles creates a feeling of shooting star or movement to me.
Wow! Fabulous!
That’s an incredible quilt! Beautifully executed
Just stunning – what a fabulous quilt!
Queen of the night – wonderfull!!
Beautiful! Completely love it!
Gorgeous! What a labor of love (I’ve loved watching it come together from afar too)! Any idea what you are going to do for the quilting yet?
The quilting is going to be done by a pro. I will take their advice and let them create. So the answer to your question is I have no idea about the quilting at all!
Lots of oohs and aahs!
I love this quilt! Such an amazing project, thank you for sharing with us along the way – it’s been really great getting to see it grow.
I love this! It’s so gorgeous.
I realize that it was a royal pain putting the top together, but the results are absolutely stunning!
Thanks Deborah. As painful as it was the end result was worth it, I think!
The quilting star strikes again! Amazing as always! I love your scrappiness. 🙂
Thanks Jess. I have just put a stay stitch around this top while I work out what to do next. It may be sitting in the cupboard a while but I hope not too long.
This is wonderful such wonderful colours and so well balanced thanks for a look
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Beautiful! Do you happen to have a pattern for this available to purchase?
I am sorry I have not replied sooner… the paper piecing patterns for most of these stars can be found under my “Free Paper Piecing patterns” tab. As this quilt was a really crazy labor of love I did not expect anyone would want to a pattern. The background is all paper pieced blocks and the layout is not on a grid. If you really want to repeat this crazy please drop me an email and I will see what I can do to help you.
Thanks for getting back to me. I make custom quilts on commission. A potential customer was looking for a quilt that had the moon and sun or stars, so I was looking for pattern options. If I do need more than I can find in the tab, I will contact you. Thanks for your help.
This quilt is amazing!!!
Just love this quilt…saw it on Pinterest!!! I think it is just gorgeous and would love to make one similar to it!!! Did you paper piece all of the stars and the string blocks???
Linda I did paper piece everything in this quilt which in hindsight was a little crazy.
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