My Hollow Star Quilt

Hello!  Today I'm sharing some pics of my Hollow Star quilt.  I have quilts everywhere in my house, but I have never made one for my own bed!  This is the first!  We have had a quilt on our bed for maybe two decades now that my mom purchased at an Amish quilt auction, and the fabrics are shredding.  It is definitely time for a fresh quilt!

The pattern for this quilt is Hollow Star by Krista Moser.  It features the Creative Grids 8-1/2" 60 Degree Diamond Ruler.  Please click the link to Krista's website and check out her fun patterns.  I love them all.  She takes fabulous photos of her quilts.  It is a joy just to browse her pages.

The finished size of the quilt pattern is 81 x 84, but I needed a bigger quilt for my queen size bed.  So I enlarged the pattern by adding some extra stars.  This thing is huge!  I'm not sure what I was thinking.   

The fabrics are a mixture of batiks that I purchased at a sale at The Quilt Company a few years ago, not knowing what I would be using them for at the time.  I didn't have quite enough of the background fabric, but I improvised with an off-white batik you can see in some of the star centers.  

I quilted with a pale yellow thread using the pantograph Leaf Crown.  I have a purple batik fabric for binding that still needs to be stitched on.

Here's something you'll never see in the pages of Better Homes and Gardens - a CPAP machine on the nightstand in the pretty bedroom photo shoot.  Well, this is real life, and that is the best picture I could get without rearranging the furniture.  I think it's lovely.

Here's our kitty Butterscotch who likes hanging out with us and the quilts.  Thanks for taking the time to visit.  Enjoy the day!