Tropical Galaxy

Every year the Calgary Long Arm Group does a group entry to the Calgary Heritage Park Festival of Quilts.  This year they decided to do a group entry using my Galaxy pattern!  The theme this year is curves and someone suggested my pattern and the group agreed!  I'm so excited!  (Thank you ladies - such an honour.) So I worked hard to get the pattern into a format that  could be download and printed.   This also give me the benefit of having 15 excellent pattern testers! 

I'm really looking forward to seeing the full display of 15 quilts!  I've seen most of them individually at "show and tell".  I think as a group, the display is going to be amazing!  Everyone has done a fabulous job on their quilt and it's so fun to see how different, yet how great, they are!

I made this one as my contribution to the submission.  I could have used my original one but I entered it in last year's show and I have a personal rule to never put the same quilt in twice.  Also, it gave me a chance to test my own pattern.  I like my first one best, but this one is OK.  I made it from stash - of course.

One very exciting note about Galaxy: Terry Rowland, also in our Long Arm Group, entered her Galaxy quilt into the Red Deer quilt show back at the beginning of April and it won "Best in Show"!  I think I'm as excited about that as she is!  Congratulations, once again, Terry (aka T-Row Studios).

I don't have too much to say about the quilting on this except that I struggled to come up with an idea for the background because the print is so busy.  I woke up one morning with an epiphany!  It's a galaxy!  Stars!  So I quilted in a bunch of stars in yellow and blue.  The thread is Fabulux - the neon yellow and blue.  I went over each line three times to pump up the outlines so they are visible above the busy background.