Starring You

Starring You won BEST IN SHOW at QuiltCon 2020.

This award-winning quilt is titled Starring You and is a large quilt measuring 75 inches wide and 90 inches tall and took 4 months to complete.

QuiltCon 2020

Starring You won an Award of Excellence for BEST Machine Quilting Frameless at Quilt Canada 2021.

Starring You was included in The Best of Quilting in CANADA at the New England Quilt Museum in 2023.

Starring You has been showcased in Curated Quilts Journal, 10th issue, in The Black and White Gallery.

Working within a modern aesthetic, I choose high contrast fabric for visual interest. I limited my colour palette to black and white to bring attention to the large graphic, yet striking minimal design from which exudes a bold sense of masculine energy.

I arranged 5 diamond shaped units together to form the partial star and took the remaining 3 units and cut them up into 90 pieces. I used turned edge appliqué as it provides the greatest freedom of composition in creating the explosive star burst.

The expansive negative space is densely quilted with a variety of custom, hand guided quilting motifs. To highlight the large graphic design and add definition throughout the quilting, I used a heavy weight black thread to create the large circles, stars, double ended arrows and boarders that frame the asymmetrical design.