'Shoot for the Stars'

On Tuesday, I finished the quilt that I was making for my nephew Norman. While I was making it I was calling it the Stars and Nines quilt but now it has it's official name - Shoot for the Stars. I had been working on the binding on and off over the past several days in fits and spurts and all of those bits of time did add up to a finished binding and ultimately a finished quilt.

This quilt was made with scraps of red fabric that I took from my crumb and string bins. I turned those bits and pieces into 3.5" squares and they became part of the larger nine patches. I save even the smallest pieces of scraps and I am very happy when I am able to use them up in a quilt. I love the little nine patch border and corner stars that I added - I think they add a lot of interest to this quilt. Shoot for the Stars finished at approx 75" x 88" and I quilted it with a shooting star pantograph and used a neutral thread.

My nephew has a wonderful future ahead of him and I hope he does shoot for the stars!