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Ad Astra
Name: Ad Astra
By: Bec Handyside from Fleet
Description from Bec:
I designed and made this quilt for my husband Richard. I had decided upon a lone star but wanted to make this very traditional design unique - and as I have never seen one pieced into a circle before (and I searched very thoroughly on the web) I decided this was the way to go. In practice this proved a rather challenging decision and I soon realised why I had never seen it done before! It didn't help that this quilt is a bit under 92" x 92" so I didn't even have a table big enough to draw my template on (a quarter of the design).
Once I had drawn up my template I then ordered my fabric - from Tabbycat. I hadn't seen any of the fabrics in the flesh, so it was perhaps a risk, but Wendy reassured me in an email that the fabrics looked great together.
Piecing this quilt took quite some time - 4 months, working 4-5 days a week. I took a couple of weeks break from this quilt over Christmas and started quilting it in January and finished in the June. By which time I had well and truly fallen out of love with it. I had to free machine well over 90% of it as the quilt was so large it was too difficult stuffing the quilt backwards and forwards under the arm. I did some straight lines on the border and I could only do 20 minutes at a time as my arms ached so much doing it.
Once finished, the quilt went into Festival of Quilts 2010 - it was amazing to see it hanging there and was easy to forget all the blood, sweat and tears that went into it (literally - I managed to slice a piece of flesh off my hand with the rotary cutter and ended up at A&E, I slipped a disc in my back layering it up, sweated profusely quilting it and cried in frustration when bits didn't match up and I had to unpick and start again - why do we do this again?!!).
Wendy from The Tabbycat said:
What can I say - a fantastic example of precision piecing and so effective in the tonal greys. I would have been proud to have produced a quilt on this scale with such detail.
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