A Blast from the past a.k.a. the Mother of all UFO's

Having a quilty visitor on the weekend gave me a bit of courage to do something I've been meaning to do for a while now.... open a suitcase with a quilt in it. This suitcase as not been opened for at least 2 years. In it, not just any quilt, but my first ever quilt! And it's miles from completion... I started it when I was still at school. It's basically 4 star panels that were batted and backed (with muslin) and quilted with thick-ish embroidery pearl.

I was frightened right up until it was completely unfolded, I thought it might have gone mouldy or been eaten by my little sewing room creatures, but other than needing a bit of an airing, it looks ok.

It's been put together as a King-size quilt on a cream backing with cream sashing in between and I've started hand quilting it with circles and stars... but that's it. There's loads still to quilt although I will only outline the stars which were originally paper-pieced and 'quilted' in pearl to the first lot of very thin batting and muslin.

Here are loads of pictures of it to show the 4 different star panels (although I've just noticed only 3 can be seen clearly), the quilting in the embroidery pearl and the little bit of hand quilting in one of my made up designs....









It's still destined to be a UFO, but perhaps this winter if we don't go to South Africa and I'm freezing in the UK, I can sit under it, keep myself warm and finish it before it's more than 20 years old!