Introducing… Star Light ~ Star Bright!!!

I got my daughter’s high school graduation quilt pin basted… with her and my honey’s help I may add…

The flimsy was purchased on eBay and is well constructed… during the marking process I found no issues… no volcanic star centers… no unstitched seams… it was shipped to me safely and gifted to my daughter at Christmas… I can’t believe it is finally marked, layered, pin basted and ready for hand quilting!!!!…

I started with the center star in my 17″ hoop..

on February 29… LEAP DAY!!!!

But meanwhile my honey was building me a frame to make the stitching on this go easier… we decided PVC was best and least expensive as well.. and he went to Lowe’s for the supplies and soon had it glued all together…

Hard to tell in the pic above but it is tilted toward me about 15 or 20 degrees… so it seems to be my perfect working height I think… we had to order clips to hold the quilt on it from eBay… meanwhile as I waited for the delivery of the PVC clips… I stitched!!!

Look closely above and you should see the dark red big stitching each diamond got surrounded by that makes up this star!!!  Fun 🙂  This is part of my daughters wishes… pops of red in the quilt 🙂

Once the clips came in I popped the quilt out of the hoop and wrangled it onto the frame… not a hard process at all and a nice stretching time too! lol

So here it is… and here I am with a big smile on my face over this new item!!!

Learning to quilt on a frame has it’s own learning curve for sure… but I am loving the speed I can now quilt with… here is my progress since March 2…

 And here is a close up on the part I have completed and where I am working presently…

I am having a blast quilting on this frame… I am tucking the bits that hang off into the plastic clips carefully after rolling… working well for me and keeps a bit of a cushion on my under hand arm….lol!

Linking all this happy news to Sarah’s Whoop Linky… I am definitely Whooping here.. are you whooping… come share with Sarah too >>>> HERE

I am also happy to link to Kathy’s Slow Stitching Sunday post… where all sorts of hand stitching is going on… HERE!

Also this month I turned my calendar… definitely getting another of these calendars for next year!!!

It says “An Invisible Crown:  Don’t leave home without it!” Hahahaha!

I love this!!!  I need to always remember I am a princess too… crown in place and head held high!!!  How about you??

Weather wise it has been a very dry February… March came in nice and warm… with warmer nights and the days are starting to noticeable lengthen again… I love Daylight Savings Time best… and we are getting closer to a time change too!  Yippee 🙂

So what are your faves about March each year???

Thanks for visiting with me… I hope you have a blessed weekend and remember…

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