Quick stats:
- Total submissions: 33
- Total countries: 5
- Total provinces: 6
- Total states: 14
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A Pound of Stars By: Karen H, Ontario, Canada In the late 1970s I was a beginner quilter living in the middle of nowhere! I bought a pound of scraps by mail order as well as some white sheeting and made this quilt. It is entirely pieced (English paper piecing) and hand quilted. It remains one of my favourite quilts! Quilt size: width: 66" height: 80" |
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Batik Mystery By: Carol Johnston, Idaho, USA The pattern for this Queen Quilt – Batik Mystery is from Quiltmaker magazine, where it was presented over a few month’s time as a mystery pattern. All the fabrics I used are batiks, including the backing. I added the pieced piano-key border and the outside border to increase the size of the piece. Quilt size: width: 81" height: 90" |
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Batik Stars By: Cynthia Zoller, New Hampshire, USA Scrappy batik stars made in soft jewel-toned fabrics. Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50" |
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Beka’s and Zack’s Wedding Quilt – August 2013 By: Alison Saunders, Missouri, USA In March 2013, I selected the pattern “Starburst” by Pleasant Valley. My sister thought I was crazy as I never pieced a quilt before. She showed me how to make HSTs and QSTs but it was the A4A quilt with Michelle Foster that honed my skills to finish it. Thank you both. It is loved by both of them. Quilt size: width: 100" height: 126" |
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Berry Blitz By: Cynthia Brunz Designs, Oregon, USA The pattern for this quilt was part of a quilt-a-long with Melissa over at Happy Quilting. Her pattern is called Star Surround. I made mine a bit scrappier than the pattern. It is one of my all time favorite quilts so far! Quilt size: width: 72" height: 72" |
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Dashing Stars By: Diane U., Ontario, Canada Christmas lap quilt made with Stonehenge fabric for my dear friend’s Christmas wonderful that she creates at her home every year. Quilt size: width: 42" height: 55" |
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Diamond Star Layer Cake Quilt By: Diamond Star Layer Cake Quilt, Utah, USA This cute quilt was my own design. I made it using half of a Cuzco Layer Cake and 2 yards of red fabric. It was a design I stumbled on while playing with the alignment of the half-square triangle units I used to assemble it. Quilt size: width: 67" height: 67" |
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estrellas en la noche By: mariajose gomez, Spain Me gusta el fondo negro en los quilt,hace resaltar los colores, en este caso de la noche Quilt size: width: 120" height: 149" |
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Feathered Star and Cardinal By: Kaaren Biggs, Ontario, Canada I found this pattern in a book of Christmas ideas and the feathered stars were a challenge but fun to make. I gave this as a gift a few years ago and wished I had kept it, so maybe it’s time to make one for myself! Quilt size: width: 26" height: 26" |
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Folk Art Wedding Stars By: Karen Schultz, New York, USA When I first started quilting, Robyn Pandolph came out with her Folk Art Wedding series of fabrics. I fell in love with them and kept buying them until I had enough. This was my first quilt for myself. It’s my favorite! Sawtooth stars are my favorite star block, as well. Quilt size: width: 65" height: 72" |
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Follow the Stars By: Dolores, Kentucky, USA This quilt was given to my son for his college graduation, just before he embarked on a journey around the world. The quilting was done during the year he was gone and it was re-presented to him and his new bride for their wedding. The stars, to follow his dreams and the compass to guide him home. Quilt size: width: 80" height: 112" |
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Garden Star By: AthenaNabi, Maryland, USA This is the second quilt I ever made. Quilted by Maria O’haver. Quilt size: width: 64" height: 79" |
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Grandma’s Star By: Kathy, Manitoba, Canada A friend in Australia sent me the templates to make the Grandma’s Star quilt. I wanted to give this pattern a more modern feel so used bright colored batiks against a light background to make the stars pop! I custom quilted this one with swirls, pebbles and straight lines for contrast. Quilt size: width: 50" height: 50" |
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Joseph’s Coat By: June Griepp, Arizona, USA A design from the book “Blocks to Diamonds” by Cheryl Malkowski. Quilted by the maker using a domestic sewing machine. The turquoise medallions are painted with Paint Stiks by Laura Murray. Quilt size: width: 79" height: 79" |
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Lone Star By: Dorian, California, USA This is a quilt I made for a paint chip challenge on the Quilt and Needle forum earlier this year. Quilt size: width: 40" height: 40" |
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Montana Constellation By: Linette Greene, Montana, USA The only quilt I ever made for myself! It is on my bed now. It is made of 36 12 inch stars with 9 patch centers. I designed the setting myself, as well as the center medallion, which has a fussy cut tree. It is quilted with moose, bear, trees, moons, and clouds, and has wool batting. I love it. Quilt size: width: 108" height: 108" |
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Mystery quilt By: Patricia, Switzerland I do not know why I took part of that mystery quilt challenge! My challenge now is to find energy to finish it. I had fun to sew it but now I’m more into textil art so… could be a good resolution for 2014. Quilt size: width: 70" height: 50" |
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Patternista Stars By: Jean Sewing Machine, Missouri, USA I fell in love with the Fabric line Patternista. I used the pattern from Cozy Quilts called Stars Aligned. This was one of the first quilts I made using a published pattern, getting me out of the box of just making quilts using simple blocks. Quilt size: width: 85" height: 80" |
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Rainbow Star By: Soma, California, USA Rainbow Star – Starlight Converging, A New Star, Starlight Diverging Quilt size: width: 14" height: 36" |
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Sea Glass By: Quilts of Tomorrow, Alberta, Canada This was based on the pattern “Bali Sea Star” by Kim Brackett in her book “Scrap Basket Surprises”. It was made as a birthday gift for my bestest friend using all batiks. Freehand quilted by Nancy Basserman of Crazy Creek Creations in Calgary. Quilt size: width: 61" height: 74" |
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Spiral Lone Star By: Joyce Bushnell, Georgia, USA This was a learning quilt since I had never tried a lone star or paper piecing. I used fabrics from my stash. The pattern came from the book by Jan Krentz. Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48" |
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Star Quilt By: Evelyn Smith, Manitoba, Canada My first quilt, done to satisfy my curiousity whether I could or not, I’ve been hooked since! Lol Quilt size: width: 87" height: 87" |
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Starburst (Krista Zaleski) By: Krista Zaleski, Ontario, Canada I designed this quilt, because I wanted to see what I could do with stars of increasing sizes. The center medallion is a 3″ lemoyne star, and each surrounding star uses the previous one as a center and expands from there. Quilt size: width: 54" height: 54" |
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Starburst (Teresa Weaver) By: Teresa Weaver, Michigan, USA First quilt I ever designed. Quilt size: width: 24" height: 24" |
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Starburst by Dereck C. Lockwood By: Eileen Morison, British Columbia, Canada My daughter wanted a star quilt and she choose the fabrics. It took me 2 years to complete. Quilt size: width: 106" height: 106" |
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Stars Aligned By: Sue Preece, Australia A quilt made just for me using all sorts of star blocks, many from tutorials on Fresh Lemons Blog and blocks from Quilterscache. I used this quilt to practice my FMQing! Quilt size: width: 58" height: 58" |
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Stars and Sparkles By: Delaine, Washington, USA I was making business cards and stopped short of cutting this one up, I liked it just the way it was, so I framed it with a gold ribbon as binding and it has been on my wall since Quilt size: width: 16" height: 8" |
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stars awhirl By: Diane, New York, USA This is the back of my Swoon quilt which I use more often than the front! The fabric is white on white polka dots. The wonky stars were made separately with leftover fabrics used on the front, I cut them out with pinking shears, randomly tossed them on the last block and stitched them down. Quilt size: width: 48" height: 48" |
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stars for dolly By: Claire Alexander, Oregon, USA I used left over scraps from a pink and yellow quilt for the improv fabric centers of the stars. The “bonus” triangles from the pink star points made the border for the yellow star. The two doll quilts are for a guild project for children to have gifts at Christmas. Another group makes dolls. Quilt size: width: 18" height: 18" |
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Stars over Adelaide By: Sheila, Australia Hand sewn, (point to point), pieced hexagon stars, using Marti Michells Hexie templates and Civil War style fabrics. From a pattern by Catherine Butterworth that appeared in Down Under Quilts last year. Quilt size: width: 70" height: 76.5" |
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Tree of Life By: Little House Creations, Alberta, Canada This is a quilt I made for a silent auction for my favorite charity. The pattern is Starlight by Marilyn Foreman and uses a selection of Timeless Treasures fabrics. The centre “Tree of Life” is a panel surrounded by 24 star blocks. I quilted it using an all over design, with continuous curve quil Quilt size: width: 70" height: 90" |
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wish upon a star By: SUSIE Wheeler, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada second quilt done on sewing machine Quilt size: width: 80" height: 90" |
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Zodiacstars By: Accroquilt, Quebec, Canada It’s a block of the month in 2012. Quilt size: width: 66" height: 66" |
I read the Night Before Christmas to my Grandchildren each year. So much fun. I will have to get this one. Thanks for the chance to win.
My favorite Christmas story is in the book of Luke -the story of Jesus. Then I love Debbie Macomber’s Christmas romances. They’re all so good!
I have never heard of this book, but would love to read it. My favorite story is the story of Jesus.
one of my favorite stories is t “A Christmas Cup of Tea” this a beautiful story of a young man visiting an elderly aunt and enjoying a cup of tea with her. Beautiful story.
I love “The Miracle of Jonathan Toomey” that includes the Christmas story along with a message of human love and kindness. All the star quilts were lovely! It was incredibly hard to vote on just a few.
In high school, I was stricken with a strep throat and confined to bed for a while. Coke had just released a little pamphlet with “The Night Before Christmas” printed on it. I memorized it. Still know it by heart to this day and our 50th reunion is up and coming.
In preparation for Christmas decorating I would always read “The Smells of Christmas” to my young ones. As they grew older they wanted to reread it each year because the nostalgia of Christmas smells in the storyline.
I would love to have a copy of ” A Quilters Christmas Carol” to share with my Quilt Guild. It sounds great.
I love the Donna VanLiere books that are published around Christmas each year. They are uplifting and so worthy of reading with the wonderful stories. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway. Judy C in NC
oh my goodness a tough time only choosing 4 quilts. all these ladies are winners in my book. thanks to all the ladies for sharing and for the inspiration. this looks like it would be a fun book. thanks for the chance to win.
I love the story, “The Three Gifts of the Magi.” It is wonderful and always makes me stop running around for a while and reflect on the season and the true meaning of the celebration.
HELLO, my favorite book is our Bible, the greatest Love Story ever told to man! Thanks so for sharing!
My favorite Christmas story is the story of Jesus. I have several other favorite Christmas stories: Amahl and the Night Visitors, The Fourth Wise Man, A Cup of Christmas Tea, The Littlest Angel, and Dicken’s classic Christmas Carol.
I love the classic book Night Before Christmas. And for Christmas movies, my absolute favorite has to be the original Miracle on 34th Street.
My favorite Christmas book is How the Grinch Stole Christmas.
My favorite Christmas Story is actually a song, Away in the Manger.
My favorite Christmas story is story of Jesus birth.