Nantucket Lone Star Quilt

One of my dearest friends has a lone star quilt hanging in her house, every time I vis­it I have thought to myself I REALLY want to make a lone star quilt!    I got my friend to take a quick pic­ture of her lone star quilt so you could see the hand quilt­ing and the per­fec­tion in every single one of those points.  Its inspir­a­tion­al isn’t it!

I clearly did­n’t have much faith in my abil­ity to make my own lone star quilt because I actu­ally bought one when I was in Lan­caster County on hol­i­days a few years ago.  I love it and cher­ish it but I still really wanted to make my own.   So when Cam­ille Roskel­ley released her Nan­tuck­et pat­tern I knew what I had to do!

Nan­tuck­et was made for my hus­band Richard so there are no flor­al or girly prints and his favour­ite col­our is blue so there’s a fair bit of that col­our in it.

The dir­ec­tions in Cam­ille’s pat­tern made sew­ing this quilt so easy.   There are no y‑seams and she includes some hints and tips which make life very easy when match­ing all those points up.   You can get your own copy of Cam­ille’s pat­tern by click­ing here if you are interested.

Richard is a bt of quilt con­nois­seur and has even been known to hunt around fab­ric stores when he’s away on busi­ness search­ing for hid­den treas­ures so when he asked if I could get the quilter to do that ‘loopy’ quilt­ing I, of course, said yes.   I think he does ok at pick­ing quilt­ing designs don’t you?

I finally fin­ished the bind­ing last night and man­aged to snap some pho­tos today of it fin­ished.   I’m so happy with this quilt and so very grate­ful that I did­n’t have to tackle any y‑seams!

It’s now sit­ting on the couch and, since we have the air-con­di­tion­ing run­ning con­stantly to cope with the stink­ing hot weath­er we are hav­ing here in Bris­bane, its already being used and that makes me so very happy!

There’s a couple more quilts on my ‘Quilty Buck­et List’ that I will get to one day but for now I’m going to sit back and be glad that this one is off the list!

What’s on your buck­et list?   I fig­ure we’ve all got one and I’d love to hear and see what’s inspir­ing you.  I also fig­ure adding a few more quilts to my list is always a good idea 🙂

Have a great week,