"Purry Stars" top finished

I was able to finish up this top which I’ve been working on for some time now relatively easily. It was fun to make, and once again, I learned how even better how to make a “picture block”.

I’ve wanted to make these kinds of blocks, so I was glad to get this pattern from Corey Yoder’s Etsy shop when she offered it for only $5 back in July.

I opted to do it in cheerful colors and to make the sashing a variety of colors and not just one color as she shows it.

I used the idea like I did for my Show Off Alaska and my original Show Off. Obviously this one is brighter but my point is that it was a variety of scrappy prints. I tried to use the colors in the sashing and cornerstone blocks that I used in the main blocks themselves.

I did not make only colors of cats that actually exist. I really wanted a prettier quilt than that. :) That is how Corey Yoder did her original pattern and while I thought it was cute, I wanted mine brighter and prettier than that.

Plus, she colored her pattern in a different fabric line of hers and it was really nice, so that showed me it was fine to have a different colorway. Oh I know…of course it is FINE to have a different colorway of any quilt - I know that, but sometimes it is good to be able to see how they look. I don’t always get it right, but I do try to do what I want to do and not just how the original designer of a quilt makes theirs.

This quilt is rather decent sized. By the time I was done, it was about a 70”x85” quilt with that 3.5” border around the outside.

It’s very cute. I like it a lot. I’m glad I bought it and decided to make it. This is one of those that I just wanted to buy and make because I liked it - not because I needed another project to do.

 

Naturally I wonder how it would have been had I chosen a solid color sashing strips and cornerstones but I couldn’t decide which color to do. So I didn’t do one color.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at these photos. I enjoyed making the quilt!

I made the quilt exactly as the pattern told me to except for the colors. So, this is the size that the designer (Corey Yoder) planned. I’d like to get this one quilted soon.

Thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Becky Petersen13 Comments