Rainbow Stars

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Meet Rainbow Stars – made from a scrumptious fat quarter bundle of True Colors by Tula Pink. I was hoarding this bundle of fabric for many months, waiting for the the perfect pattern/idea to strike. This is also special because it is my first ever commissioned quilt. My college friend Rupa in Australia asked me to make a quilt for her friend. She looked over my quilts and a few on Pinterest and said she wanted something modern with bright colors.

IMG_1065I had just got myself a Tri-recs ruler and put it to work. Tri-recs makes it super easy to make isosceles triangles that fit into squares. They almost look like equilateral triangles but they are not – the base angle is about 63.5 degrees.

I simple laid them out to make interlocking stars, keeping like colors together. The top went together quite quickly.

I quilted three curvy lines inside each triangle and an echo line around the triangles. This left a nice hexagon inside each triangle. I had fun coming up with a different design for each hexagon.

I used some dot-to-dot designs to emphasize the hexagon in some or modify the hexagon in others.

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I quilted some swirls and feathers and paisleys in the negative space on top and bottom.

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Size: 60″ X 70″

Fabric: True Colors by Tula Pink, Kona cotton silver

Linking to all the usual linky parties:

Friday:

Can I get a whoop whoop

Finished or not Friday

TGIFF @ DevotedQuilter

Finish it up Friday @ Crazy Mom quilts

Monday:

Main Crush Monday @ Cookingup Quilts

Tuesday:

Linky Tuesday @ Freemotion by the river

Wednesday:

Midween Makers @ QuiltFabrication

15 thoughts on “Rainbow Stars

  1. Leanne Parsons

    It’s beautiful! The colours are so pretty and your quilting is gorgeous! I’m sure your friend and her friend will both love it. Thanks for linking to TGIFF this week 🙂

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  2. rl2b2017

    Hi Vasudha! What a beautiful quilt finish you are sharing with us today. I love those fabrics – they are just gorgeous. You really have a talent for bringing out the best in a quilt with your quilting. I love the ideas you share. I have a Tri-recs ruler that I used for one block on a QAL, and haven’t done anything with it since. You are inspiring me to pull it out and make a quilt. Happy Happy Friday! ~smile~ Roseanne

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  3. Preeti Harris

    It is a stunning finish, Vasudha. I love how the tri-recs ruler, the gorgeous FQ bundle and the commission request from Australia came together to a happy meeting place in this lovely, colorful, bright quilt. Your quilting is spectacular!!! Hope your weekend is relaxing.

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  4. Debbie H

    Wow, I love the design. It is so eye catching. And when you look up close, your quilting is so beautiful. It really makes for a wonderful finish! Hooray for you!

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  5. Sandra Walker

    Vasudha, this is STUNNING!! I love my Tri-Recs rulers, don’t use them often enough… I love the flow quilting you did in all that scrumptious negative space, and doing a different design in each hexagon: I wholeheartedly approve of that! (as you know I would). How exciting to have a commissioned quilt, yay for you! It’s just heavenly. btw I must mention How I love the setting and that you fool the eye with the hexagon centres!

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  6. Sandra Walker

    Ha! I’m back with another comment; I just scrolled through 2018 quilts, and LOVED this (another I doodled that is very similar…like wt(h – I’ll be appropriate) as they say! 🙂 But I wanted to add that Rupa took the sunset pic that inspired the Log Cabin reimagined quilt that made me go back to find another post on which to comment….kinda coolio!

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