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Marci Girl Designs

Cosmic Burst, a Small Quilt entry into the Blogger's Quilt Festival

5/16/2014

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Welcome to Marci Girl Designs!  If you are here for the first time from Blogger's Quilt Festival, I would love for you to have a look around.  I am a stay at home mom to two precious boys and I fill all my free time with all forms of sewing, and in the last few years, mostly quilting.  I'm pretty obsessed, but anyways, enough about me, let's talk about this quilt!

This is my Cosmic Burst quilt that was part of two sew alongs that took place a few years ago.  It started with the Cosmic Burst Quilt Along hosted by Distant Pickles and then I chose to use "my precious" fabrics and incorporated the My Precious Quilt Along hosted by Kelby Sews.  Way back in the day when this quilt was started, I worked pretty diligently on it and had the quilt top finished in a semi-timely manner (good for me anyway.)  In typical fashion, once the quilt top was finished, it sat for a long time, probably a year.  Well at the beginning of last year (think last March) I finally basted, quilted and bound it.  I even took pictures back then, but NEVER blogged about it.  I have no idea why I never blogged about it, I ADORE this quilt, it is currently hanging in my living room and I love it, I guess I just never sat down to share this beauty.  Well today is the day and I decided to share it today by participating in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!
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I said before that this quilt started with the Cosmic Burst Quilt Along, so the pattern was chosen from the very beginning, I knew what the overall quilt design was based on this awesome pattern that Julie designed.  I still love it today as much as I did when I started this project.  Such a pretty design.  I then had to choose what fabrics I wanted to use to compliment the pattern.  Well I knew I wanted something pretty special, so i chose to cut up my hoarded, precious Heather Ross, Macaroni Love Story that was printed exclusively for Spoonflower.  I created 3 digital mock-ups of fabric placement (I didn't want to mess this thing up) and after debating for a while, chose the one I liked best.  In the end I added in Patty Young, Lush, Running Stitch (the pink and orange dotted stripes) and then framed the whole thing with a background fabric of Alexander Henry Heath (the gray crosshatch,) still one of my all time favorites.
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I had to do quite a bit of figuring to get all of the directional prints to fall perfectly, especially those blue and yellow sail boats, that was a mental challenge!  But once the cutting was done, the sewing was fast and before I knew it I had a finished quilt top.  And there it sat forever.  Well in the meantime Heather Ross designed fabric for Hancock Fabric stores, one of the prints was a matching clothespin doll print in gray (which worked out PERFECTLY) and I was able to buy enough yardage for the back of this precious quilt that featured all of these much loved and hoarded fabrics.  So I basted it, and then had to decide on quilting.
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I pretty much knew that I would straight line quilt this one, and I wanted to feature the radiance of that center star from which the whole quilt pattern was based.  I started quilting on the diagonal in 1/2" lines from corner to corner and then the opposite direction, this creating the wonderful grid right in the dead center of this quilt, seen below.  I just loved how that turned out.  Oh and I used a nice matching gray quilting thread, to hopefully blend in, but yet be seen just the right amount.
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Once the center sections were quilted, I just echoed the quilting in diagonal "triangles" in the top, bottom and sides.  I chose to do this stitching 3/4" apart, hoping it would make the center section stand out, and I think it did exactly what I was intending!  Once the quilting was complete I decided to bind it in the same Alexander Henry Heath, so that the binding would just blend into the background.  The finished quilt measures 40" x 40", I used a cotton batting (don't remember the details) and it is a perfect wall hanging.

I am so happy to have shared this finished quilt today and thanks so much for reading along!  I also wanted to mention that I am fairly new to Instagram, and I would love it if you would follow along with my daily antics, you can find my Instagram account here, marci_girl.
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20 Comments
Debbie link
5/16/2014 03:45:17 am

I remember this! I am so glad you shared it today and I can imagine how nice it looks hanging in your home! ;-)
Love the extra quilting through the center!

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Michelle link
5/16/2014 03:47:52 am

This is gorgeous! Where did the pattern come from?

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Michelle link
5/16/2014 05:17:12 am

This really is gorgeous, Marci!
So glad you're sharing it now. I can see why you love it -- the fabrics, colors, and quilting are all fantastic!!!

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becky m link
5/16/2014 05:40:55 am

this is just so beautiful! the quilting really sets it off perfectly!

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Everyquilt link
5/16/2014 09:29:41 am

It's a very nice quilt, and the quilting is truly amazing!

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Kat link
5/16/2014 03:51:09 pm

Really cool quilt! I especially like the quilting.

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Cille link
5/16/2014 05:29:21 pm

I have a soda spot for stars... Love your quilting too.

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Barbara link
5/17/2014 01:57:16 am

Beautiful. I love how you've quilted it.

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Flying Blind
5/17/2014 09:30:13 am

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!!!

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CitricSugar link
5/17/2014 09:53:31 am

Very pretty - love the way the light blues fade in and out depending on the light!

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Tiffany link
5/17/2014 12:54:58 pm

I really love the colors in this quilt! No wonder you hoarded the fabric for so long. ;)

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Catherine link
5/17/2014 05:35:58 pm

I adore the straight line quilting. What is the backing fabric? so cool.

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Rachel link
5/18/2014 01:55:47 pm

Lovely!

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Kari link
5/21/2014 02:42:28 am

What a lovely quilt! The fabrics are so cute.

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Anne link
5/21/2014 01:18:56 pm

I love the color placement and fabrics you chose for this! And the quilting is perfect. :)

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Ольга link
5/22/2014 02:30:55 am

Nice! I love this quilt!

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linda link
5/22/2014 06:11:40 pm

very fun quilt. I love the colors and the quilting!

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Nupur link
5/27/2014 03:09:27 am

This is just spectacular- I love this large scale block. And the colors you chose.

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CHRISTINA link
6/27/2014 05:47:49 am

I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD IT A MILLION TIMES BUT THIS IS TRULY AMAZING!! I LOVE IT!!

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Jessica link
6/28/2014 11:11:02 am

This is a beautiful quilt, I love stars and this has just the right balance of interesting without being overly complex which would hopefully make it great for baby quilts. Such pretty fabrics and the quilting totally makes it, well done.

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