Reach for the Stars Quilt

This quilt was my first large paperpieced quilt and I had so much fun working on this with all the jewel tone colors. It was made with the "Star Galaxy" pattern which I found in a quilting magazine in 2003. I'm sure I still have it somewhere, but I don't remember which one it was right now. I finished the quilt in 2004.

Then I added the sashing and small squares of dancing people fabric. To really set it off, I drew 2 of these people shapes out on paper and scanned them into my computer. Then I converted the graphic to a machine embroidery pattern and saved that to my embroidery machine's disk. Then I embroidered them on lightly spotted black squares in different jewel tone colors for the 4 corners of the quilt.

Lastly, I added pink piping around the edge of quilt before binding. Then I machine quilted it on my sewing machine. Even though it was one of the first big quilts I ever made, it is still one of my favorites which I won't give away.