Nordic Star Runner in Blue

 

 Blue Star Table Runner

I made one of these table runners a few years ago, and gifted it to my quilting friend Laura, who loves red:

Nordic Star Table Runner  - Free Pattern from The Crafty Quilter 

I gave the red one away to my friend, Laura.  This time, I wanted to make one in blue.    

  

Yes, I still have a lot of blue in my stash.  And all the fabric is from my stash.   

I picked up that lighter blue flower print on the Free Table at the Quilt Guild a while back.  It's not officially cotton quilt fabric, but something lighter.  Someone made a blouse out of it, but then changed their mind.  It looks nice as part of this project!

Here are the fabrics cut to size, ready for assembly. 

 Here I made the half-square triangles.

It didn't seem to take as long to cut out and sew the half-square triangles as it did at Quilt Camp that year.  Maybe because I split up the work into multiple days.  

Then I laid all the pieces out in the 4 star blocks, so it would be easy to assemble them. 

 

Here is the finished top, not yet sandwiched or quilted.

 

 Here it is finished and "fulled" as we say in weaving.

I used some scraps of a Hobbs 80/20 cotton batting, in part because I wanted the crinkled antique look that batt gives to new quilts.

Quilting was simply a straight stitch ever half inch, except for the middle bars with got a stitch-in-the-ditch treatment. 

This is how it looks from the back.

Here's a detail shot of that blouse fabric.

Is it too early to give this to my husband as a Christmas present?