a year of stars with natalia bonner

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner - The Wandering Star from The Quilt Yarn

Here is the last star for the year

...and finally, the whole quilt. Posted this already on Instagram and FB but for the sake of having the whole year on here, I am repeating it.

A photo outside to highlight the quilting...and yep, there is a lot of quilting on that one. I am not a 100% sure which sashing or border design we were supposed to be doing...in the end I just chose the ones that appealed to me from the many YouTube videos that Natalia has put up on the net. The stacked curl design and ...

added by Karin 2 years, 11 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , ruler work

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

I cannot believe how fast this year has gone.

This is the 11th block in Natalia Bonner's 'Let's Stitch a Year of Stars' Quiltalong - Brian's Star

To tell you the truth, I cannot remember doing this block, but looking at it now I quite like it, although I would probably never quilt that heavily in a pieced quilt.

Only one block left and then I really need to do the binding on this quilt. While I enjoyed doing the quiltalong, I don't think I will do another year long quiltalong. I do get impatient and as ...

added by Karin 3 years ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , ruler work

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

Here is the October 9 patch star block

Loved doing this one and was easy to fill in. My only issue was to do the swirl in the light purple triangles. It's a biggish space to fill freehand and I think I got one of my swirls the wrong way around. Natalia uses this swirl quite often to fill a space...I have to really think hard about that one...does not come naturally to me and promptly turned it in the right top corner. It's not really that obvious, so I just left it in there.

Can ...

added by Karin 3 years, 1 month ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , ruler work

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

The star for this month was the Large Star.

I was really looking forward to this one...love the simplicity of just quilting an inside echo, although I do think it looks better on Natalia's quilt as she is using a panel so you don't have the piecing seams.

Need to actually dig out this quilt as I still got the binding to do. It's all cut out, I just have been preoccupied with other things.

Did you see that Natalia is running a second 9 Patchalong? I think it starts this month. While I will not ...

added by Karin 3 years, 2 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , large star quilt block , ruler work

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

How quick does the month go by...we had 1 week of lockdown in between which was somewhat unsettling. Had a few appointments booked in which all needed to be re-scheduled, however in the scheme of things not really a big deal (just felt like it when it happened). We have come out ok in the lockdown, unfortunately the same cannot be said for other parts of Australia.

I have lost the plot a bit in terms of this quiltalong as I already have finished the entire quilt (just need to attach the binding). Very hard to remember to post ...

added by Karin 3 years, 3 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , ruler quilting

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner - Spider Star from The Quilt Yarn

And another month has gone by...

This is the Spider Star all dressed up

Head over to Piece N Quilt if you want to find out more about this monthly quiltalong.

Karin

added by Karin 3 years, 4 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , spider star

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner - Joyce's Star from The Quilt Yarn

This month star is Joyce's Star.

This star was a bit more involved so I did it in sections, slowly but surely. Very enjoyable if you don't do all the pebbles at once. Not sure about you but I quilt pebbles relatively slowly. I have to concentrate otherwise I do wonky shapes and loose my way, so I took my time with this one.

Again, really enjoyed this one, although I am not sure I would quilt something as densely as that. Makes the block fairly stiff...however looks great quilted out.

Karin

added by Karin 3 years, 5 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , joyce's star , quilting with rulers

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner - Morning Star/New Project Coming Up from The Quilt Yarn

Just a quick post to show you the quilted Morning Star Block for the month of April.

Loved doing this block. Particularly like the centre motif. Still have the sashings to do, but waiting for an opportunity to change the thread as I am quilting the pebbles in that dusty pink colour. Given that this is a year long quiltalong, there's plenty of time to pebble along. Have a few other things on the go at the moment.

Apart from this, we had our first Quilt Show after the isolation of 2020. Went the other day to have a ...

added by Karin 3 years, 6 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , bernina q20 , freemotionquilting , morning star

A Year of Stars with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

Have absolutely nothing to quilt at the moment so finished the Mosaic Star for the month of April...I have got Natalia's Companion Workbook which details one of the options for quilting out the stars. For further options you will have to join Natalia on Patreon which I did not do, but obviously there are many different ways of stitching this out.

Anyway, here is my Mosaic Star for April

Enjoyed this one but made a few mistakes, i.e. not stitching in the ditch around some shapes which you can see are puffing up a bit, but otherwise ...

added by Karin 3 years, 7 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , ruler work

Natalia Bonner's 'A Year of Stars' from The Quilt Yarn

Progress

Finished all of the framework for the sashings and borders. I do not have a huge curve ruler (Natalia used a huge curve for her quilt), hence I used my Pro Echo #12 ruler to put the scallops into the border. That was challenging enough! In the end I just made it fit. Not ideal as the curves were slightly different all over, but in the end I doubted that this would feature much. Having done this, I realised that my curves were too shallow for putting feathers in there, so I had to come up with something else ...

added by Karin 3 years, 7 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , border design , freemotion quilting , pebbles , stacked swirls

Block #3 of Natalia Bonner's 'A Year of Stars' Quiltalong from The Quilt Yarn

This is Block #3, the Union Star, all quilted out following Natalia Bonner's instructions on YouTube.

Not much to say about this block. Took my time with it and had lots of starts and stops as I did not want to travel in my ditch excessively. Found this quite easy to do but put in a few 'helper marks' to hit the right points and to keep my lines straight.

Also made a start on the sashing...I think there are two designs that people are using. Well, I went for this diamond shape and quite like the looks ...

added by Karin 3 years, 8 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , freemotionquilting , ruler work

Block #2 of the Year of Stars Quiltalong with Natalia Bonner from The Quilt Yarn

Finished the Dandy Star quilting.

Look at that texture, it's really puffing out.

Loved quilting this block and learnt a few things. After many, many years I finally figured out how to echo around star points with a ruler without having to mark the exact spot you need to stop. That was a bit of an eye opener and very helpful. Usually I make a little mark on where to stop however that often is not exact and without fail my next quarter of an inch echo line is either too fat or too skinny because I did not ...

added by Karin 3 years, 9 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , bernina q20 , handiquilter ditch ruler

A Year Of Stars Quiltalong with Natalia Bonner - January from The Quilt Yarn

I am participating in Natalia Bonner's 'A Year of Stars' quiltalong. If you are interested - it is not too late, as the actual quilting has just begun and it is going to be running for the entire year. Natalia is also running YouTube tutorials on how to put the blocks together. I have not watched these as I purchased the accompanying Workbook last year to get going on the blocks as I knew this would take me a long time to piece.

Most of the last week was stitching-in-the-ditch with invisible thread to stabilize the quilt. In case you ...

added by Karin 3 years, 9 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , e2e design (urban elementz) , ruler work

Freemotion-Quilting Again from The Quilt Yarn

Ahhh...after what felt like weeks on end, I finished my three quilt tops and am finally able to get back to what I love most... freemotion-quilting.

Made a start on my Natalia Bonner 'A Year Of Stars' quilt for the quiltalong that has commenced in January. As I am not on a frame longarm, I have to secure my quilt with stitching in the ditch before I can start all of the ruler work. I did order some Monoploy thread on a cone which arrived recently and started with testing my tension.

I have a few blocks that ended ...

added by Karin 3 years, 9 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , bernina q20 , freemotion quilting , stitch in the ditch

Plugging Along from The Quilt Yarn

Very hot over here today. Fur Baby is completely knocked out

I am currently working on three projects all at once. Why I would have thought that this is quicker I shall never know. Everything seems to be taking so much longer!

Natalia Bonner 'A Year of Stars' Quilt

Made good progress and then discovered that I did not have enough backing (or wadding for that matter)! So had to wait a moment until I got to the shops to get suitable backing, then wash it...finally ready to put it together

Will wait for the weather to cool down ...

added by Karin 3 years, 10 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , new baby quilt pattern , pastel baby quilt

Happy New Year! from The Quilt Yarn

Wishing everybody a Happy and Healthy New Year.

I have been fairly productive in the last few days. Still exploring my new camera...started working on making a new banner for my little Etsy shop which now also adorns my blog. I thought it was time for a change. Well, that little idea went from one to the next thing to the next...before I knew it I was working on several other things. So far I

- updated my Etsy banner

- cleaned up the site (still heaps more to do), and

- made a new button for the Etsy shop which ...

added by Karin 3 years, 10 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , etsy banner , pastel charm square quilt

Happy Scrappy Houses And Other Projects from The Quilt Yarn

I finally finished the quilting of the Happy Scrappy Houses quilt. The quilting is minimalist....did not want to loose the soft, cuddly feel of this quilt. Only quilted the sashing down with a curvy design that was used in Natalia Bonner's last quiltalong. Struggled a bit with that then and thought that this was a good opportunity to practice some more (really got that down pad now!). Settled on a very simple scallop design in the border.

Had a bit of fun in the border with variegated thread to match the scrappy quilt.

To speed things up I ...

added by Karin 3 years, 11 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , bonnie hunter design , happy scrappy houses , ruler work freemotionquilting

Finished The Piecing! from The Quilt Yarn

I am so glad I finished the piecing for Natalia Bonner's 'A Year of Stars' quiltalong. I had left the most challenging block to last (did not think that through). By that time, I had hardly any fabric left, so was faced with the scenario of only being able to have one go at it. Must admit, while I was putting it together I was already thinking about what other block I could substitute this one for with the scraps I had left over. Was not at all confident that this would work out,

but, tada... The Spider Star ...

added by Karin 3 years, 11 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , madeit , piecing , quilt patterns

Still Piecing from The Quilt Yarn

We are in lockdown again! This time they went in hard and fast and so far we are looking at 6 days of strict lockdown and then another 8 days where hopefully restrictions are eased somewhat. Can't leave the house at all, unless you do need to go to the shops. No exercising, walking or meeting anyone. Very impressed really with the government's quick reaction to our new cluster over here. We currently have 23 cases in Adelaide with a few more expected. Compared to other countries this does not sound too bad, but I am really glad ...

added by Karin 3 years, 11 months ago. under a year of stars with natalia bonner , fabric selection , madeit

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