This week, after a little procrastination. I finally finished sewing all my green stars into a quilt top…
I alternated the paper pieced blocks with 8 1/2 inch squares of low volume fabric… using mainly fabrics that had been used in the star blocks.
I sewed all the blocks together, keeping the paper on the stars. I have found if I remove the paper from the pattern before I sew everything together there can be issues making everything fit properly. There can be a lot of bias pieces in paper piecing and you want to minimize the wiggle…
When I had sewn all the stars and low volume blocks together I realized the quilt needed a border of some sort. I ended up making four flying geese blocks and interspersed them within the 3 inch border.
I love how the border and those geese bring the whole quilt together.
To celebrate finishing this quilt I thought I would do a little giveaway.
Up for grabs is this 18 fat eight cuts of fabric so you can make your own green star blocks – 12 different greens and 6 different low volumes. If you would like to win just leave a comment on this post and we will pick a winner on Monday. As always I am happy to post overseas.
THE COMPETiTION IS NOW CLOSED. Thanks.
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I love everything about this – stars, flying geese, greens & low volume!!! Thanks for the chance to win the great fabrics.
I love how fresh and clean the greens look – and particularly how modern your background fabrics are! Thanks for the tip about leaving the paper on until the end.
Yes, please also enter me in the drawing 🙂 although I was going to post the above even before I scrolled down that far in your e-mail.
Have so enjoyed following along with blocks you posted and now to see the finished project…WOW. Great job. Thank you for sharing.
I love this! So glad you blog so I can still follow you and get inspiration even after I move out of Portland. 😦
Green is my birthstone and my favorite color so yes mam, I would love to win this bundle!
I haven’t paper pieced for awhile but your quilts are inspirational…..I would love to get a bundle to start my journey back to paper piecing
I just learned how to paper-piece and would love to try this quilt with the give-away fabrics. I love your low-volume choices. SO FUN!
Your work awes and inspires me! I look forward to your posts every Monday!
I just love, love those stars! I just found you recently & immediately downloaded the patterns. Can’t wait until mine is finished. Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Congratulations on finishing your quilt top. Those stars look amazing. Thanks for the opportunity to win. My fabric stash could really use some low volume and greens for a project I am trying to complete.
I love how it all came together! Those flying geese really add the right finishing touch to the entire quilt.
I love this pattern in green. Not a color I would have picked but it works
Low volume, paper piecing, flying geese….a great quilt combo. I like the use of green too, instead of the more usual blue and red. Looking forward to seeing how you quilt it.
Oh my gosh! my sons favorite color is green! And I have never made him a quilt 😦
so this would be so wonderful to win! Thanks for this great giveaway!
Such a great quilt top! Love the flying geese border, I will have to do that someday.
The geese flying around the edge do a wonderful job of spinning the stars in the quilt. I love it!
The flying geese were the perfect choice for the border! Congratulations on your finish, it is rather pretty.
Those blocks are just fantastic.I love your layout.Great job and thanks for the chance.
The green with the low volume is so vibrant! I love it.
Green stars look fabulous, as always love your paper piecing, I am yet to give these blocks a go, green happens to be my birth stone as well and my favourite colour. Would love to win these
Hi! Your quilt Top looks fantastic! I love the green stars and lately I really like low volume backgrounds! Thank you for sharing those beautiful Fabrics! x Teje
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I am just learning to paper piece from your website so thank you for all the helpful information and inspiration. I am working on a king size quilt so I need all the inspiration I can find! Thanks again for sharing.
love all your quilts you do, thanks for sharing
Those blocks are just fantastic.I love your layout.Great job and thanks for the chance,
gorgeous! I would love these fat quarters! Happy weekend!
Love how your green-stars-low-volume-quilt turned out. Thank you Kate for all the helpful hints (esp. concerning paperpiecing) you include in your posts. And thank you for your generous giveaway…. green is my favourite colour, so I’m in.
Thank you for all these wonderful star patterns. This quilt is definitely on my to do list.
Green is my favourite colour but I still think I Iove the neutrals in this a little more than the greens
I love how you have put the top together. The flying geese are cute as a button. Thanks for the lovely fabric give away.
I’ve learned to love mixed greens just following the progress of these star blocks. I’d be thrilled to win a set of the fabrics to make my own!
I love receving notifications about your blog. I have particularly enjoyed the green quilt and waited with anticipation for each new post. Your work is beautiful thank you for sharing!
Loved each and every one of your stars! The top looks beautiful😄
Over the last several months I have become a huge fan of your weekly posts – you have an amazing eye for color. My wombat pattern file is becoming quite large. This green collection would be the incentive to get me started. Can’t wait to see what’s next on your design board.
Your quilt is really lovely. I have been following along as you make the blocks. I love green and these look like little gems embedded in the quilt top.
Awesome job, I love it
You always do such like fab work ~ love these green stars! Thanks for the chance to win these lovely fabrics!
Ah, green…my favourite colour.
Oh my goodness! Please throw my name in th hat for those lovely fabrics. I’ve been collecting black and whites in hopes of sometime doing a star quilt with your green stars. Love your blog!!
beautiful top quilt with lovely stars. Thank you for sharing
I have enjoyed your paper piecing It has inspired me for doing a lime green and black quilt maybe paper piecing.
I love your quilt! That green is so cheery and just my style 🙂 x
I love this layout! I already plan to use some of your star pieces to create a baby quilt. Just one more inspiration to use!
I’m loving your blog- your blocks are so fresh and creative- I’d love to play with the green and grey palette. I usually gravitate to teal and purple but I’m loving the look you create in this palette.
Wow! What a great giveaway and a great quilt!
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I have loved watching these green gems evolve and think your border solution is perfect. Happy stitching
Love the finish! Thanks for the opportunity to win!
That quilt looks great! The geese in the border gives it a really special look!
Thanks for the chance to win some fabrics in my favorite color!
The layout is just right – it would be so easy to get it unbalanced, but your blocks work beautifully
and I love the flying geese in the borders.,
I love stars, I love green, this is a wonderful quilt top. How will you quilt it?
Absolutely stunning! I so admire all of your work. I am using one of your star patterns next weekend to lead a paper piecing workshop for my modern quilt guild. Thank you for sharing your work. 😃