seeing stars

There's been a bit of a love/hate thing-y happening with my hexi/star quilt this month, and by the time my daughter came over the other day I'd actually moved onto something else. But she wasn't having a bar of it! The conversation went something like this....

• D: where's all your stars mum?
• Me: in the wardrobe
• D: what?
• Me: in the wardrobe. I wasn't enjoying them anymore
• D: but the fabrics are lovely... let's get them back out... now
• Me: oh darling, I'm v.busy just now, about to start cleaning windows!

Next thing I knew, those stars were back up on the design wall! AGAIN! She had decided, and rightly too, that I needed "a few guidelines, a bit of order, what's the word mum?" "rules" I replied.

And together we stuck with it that day until I had plan B, hm-m-m- or was that plan C?!?  Well anyway, briefly here's what we did- the stripes & pastel small scale prints were discarded, and we focused on having one main 'bright' fabric (mostly) for the centres. I used the white 'minimal angles' print as my unifying {read  =calming} element, and she began adding some scrappy tone-on-tone bright bits for the joining triangles - an idea I copied suggested we try from Alison from littleislandquilting!

Then, a busy few days followed for me in the sewing room as I unpicked, re-sewed, pressed

and re-shuffled, and sewed, I'm sure you get the idea!

After all this playing and trialling different versions over the month
 I started to run out of some fabrics.
So, in true quilty form, there's a bit of joining up in places and substituting,

and here we are now with a finished quilt top...

- thinking of binding with a b&w stripe and maybe I could call this quilt "liquorice allsorts"

Loved working with my daughter on this and,

I definitely had fun breaking outta-the-box with all this colour too.
hm-m-m- so now my design wall is bare...

but I guess I can't avoid cleaning those windows any longer!

Linking up this week with:

Cynthia here for 'oh scrap' and Emma over here for 'moving it forward'

- head on over for lots more quilty inspiration!