Sometimes Bigger is Better

 We've always been told that

bigger is better.

But that isn't always necessarily true.

A bigger house, 

a bigger car,

equals bigger payments.

A big Gulp,

a big Mac,

equals big calories.

But sometimes bigger is better.

I just finished my quilt
Basket and Stars.
 I had

Big stitched

using Barb's Big Baptist Fan Stencil

You can find this incredible stencil
on her Esty shop here.

In this case, bigger was better.

I had finished the top of Baskets and Stars

in the fall.

It was a Moda kit I had purchased in the spring and

was part of the Collection of a Cause where

the proceeds were going to the Texas Quilt Museum.

 

"Baskets and Stars"
70" X 70"
2016

The quilting went so fast

and was so fun using

Barb's fabulous stencil and 

stitching with Aurifil #12 thread.

 Look at the amount of
space the stencil covered.

If you haven't tried quilting using
big stitches and some kind
of embroidery cotton for thread,
 you definitely must do it.

I'm pretty conservative when it comes
to marking a quilt.
In this case I used a Sewline

Mechanical Marking Pencil
with white lead.

I usually don't wash my quilts when
I'm done so I wanted the lines to be very faint
and not use some thing that would
add any chemicals to the fibers.

I even had one block leftover that I could
use for the label.

I had hoped to have this done in December,
but the binding just had to wait until January.
It's a wonderful quilt to have finished in 2016.

Until Next Time-