Star Wars Quilt

I finally have a finish to share here, and this quilt has been done for several months, just took a while to get pictures.  It's a HUGE quilt and big quilts are hard to take pictures of...so I put it off.  I also realized as I'm writing this, that this is only my second finish of the year.  I don't know what's happened, usually I've done more.  I guess I need to start finishing quilts, instead of starting new ones.

My son is a huge fan of Star Wars, has been for years, and I figure he probably will be for many more to come (especially with the new movies coming out).  So this was really fun to make and exciting for him--kinda.  (Let's face it, quilts aren't as exciting to my kids as they are to me...).

The pattern is actually a cross stitch pattern by wee little stitches.  Each stitch is a 1 inch square.  I started out doing a 2 inch square, but it was just getting too big, so I shrunk it down to one inch, and honestly it could probably be even smaller, but I don't love working with smaller...

 A blurry picture on my sons bed...he even accessorized it with a vader mask and cross bow for chewie.  

 I used black and white stripe on the binding.  

And I didn't quilt it myself...I tried, but after attempting 2 times, unsuccessfully, to baste it, I decided  to send it out.  I used Emily Session @ Emerson Quilting.  She did such a great job.  She quilted in concentric squares and I think it works perfect for this pattern.  I love it!

Quilt Stats:

Finished size: 92in X 104in

Pattern:   Cross stitch pattern found here 

Fabric:  Solids are Kona (not sure colors)  binding:  timeless treasures

Batting:  Quilters Dream cotton batting (from quilter)

Quilted by:  Emerson Quilting

star wars

I finally pulled my Star Wars quilt back out.  I am determined to finish it!  

I expressed some concern about the size of each character in this post, it was just getting to be too big so, I put it away--I didn't have a good solution.  Last May, when I started, there was no way I was going to redo it, but when I picked it up a few weeks ago, I knew that I needed to shrink it down. So I did.  I cut it in half, went from 2 inch squares to 1 inch squares and I am soooooooo happy I did. It is going to work so much better now.  I am so pleased with how it turned out.  I love it.

Pattern is found here.  It is a cross stitch pattern, turned pixellated quilt pattern, with each stitch being 1 inch.

chewbacca

One more for the Star Wars quilt.  

Chewbacca

I'm beginning to wish I had made these smaller, they are kind of big.  I'm not sure if it's not a big deal, or if I should rethink the whole thing.  

I do love them though.

han solo

Han has been my sons favorite character from the beginning.  

Master Yoda

I'm pretty excited about this quilt, another Star Wars quilt for my son.  He has a bigger bed now and his old quilt doesn't fit.  I like this one better anyway, for some reason I never really liked the first Star Wars quilt I made him.  I don't even know why, I just don't like it.  

I found the pattern here, it's actually a cross stitch pattern, but I'm using it as a guide for a quilt.  Next up is Han Solo, and then Chewbacca.  We will see if we have room for more characters.  

I contributed to a fun "one word" blog post here about blogging and quilting, a fun read if you have time.