The Madrona Road quilt is almost finished – it just needs binding, then I can post it on the Flickr site. I’m going to bind it with solid black. 
When I positioned the stars on my design wall last week, I hadn’t really thought through how I was going to piece them together. I wanted them fairly close together, so each star had to be pieced into the other stars’ background fabrics. I suppose I could have pieced the large stars into the background, then appliqued the small ones – but I didn’t think about that until I was pretty far along in the piecing process.
I started by piecing the top and left stars together. That worked really well – the diagonal seams in one star lined up with the diagonal seams in the background of the other – yay! So I thought I would do the same with the other two (right and bottom) stars. Then I realized there would be some partial seams in the middle. To further complicate matters, the second pair of stars didn’t line up as well as the first pair, and I had to do two inset seams. I lost track of how many seams I ripped out and re-stitched, and how many partial seams were required.
But I persevered, and it all come together. I used a lot of my geometry skills from high school. I quilted it with right-angle parallel lines in each quadrant. I really like the way it looks, and it has the added advantage of nicely minimizing the seams in the center area.
I’ve enjoyed working on this quilt, but will be glad to move onto other projects. I’ll post another photo when the binding is on.
As always, I’m linking up with these blogs for WiP Wednesday. Click on the buttons below to see all the people participating and check out their projects.
Update: the binding is done, and the photo is up on the MQG Madrona Road Challenge Flickr group. 
This is gorgeous, Terry … I can’t believe all the calculations that would have been necessary to achieve this look … my hat is definitely off to you!!
Terry, yours is the best one yet for the challenge. I bet you get a call from Michael Miller about it. Awesome job — worth all the geometry!
Nice work, and almost done as well–great job! I had to reconcile myself to the fact that I couldn’t possible get my Madrona Road quilt done in time for the Michael Miller deadline, but it will be ready for the March VMQG meeting.
Terry, your quilt is amazing!
Wow, what a stunning looking quilt!
Absolutely successful. LOVE it. 🙂
Stunning!!!!! I love the stars….the color…and best of all; the quilting
this is so pretty, the stars look sparkley!
Wow, this is gorgeous. I love your design. Good job with all the geometry!
This is a great quilt, Terry! The quilting design suits the stars perfectly.. 🙂
I really like this! The work you put into the piecing is amazing and the quilting really does help camouflage the seams.
Wow, what a great quilt. The piecing alone……..but the quilting is fabulous and enhances the whole thing……….
Stunning! Great job – I think it is one of my favorite challenge quilts I have seen so far.
Wow, I love this! It’s fantastic!
It looks great; love the quilting.
Love the dark outline around the stars, really gorgeous!
this looks absolutely fabulous! All that hard work paid off.
Love it. Great job.
Just stupendous, Terry. As always!
Yeah I’ve learned my lesson going into a quilt without a proper piecing plan… it makes for some difficult decisions sometimes. This looks amazing and well worth the seam ripping.
It looks like it was worth every minute spent. Lovely
Wow, Terry! This is completely amazing and I’m dumbfounded that you pieced it all together. I was sure it must be appliqued to the background. I am glad you enjoyed the tutorial and I really hope you win!!
Everything is fantastic: the design, the piecing, and the quilting. Congrats on a great finish!
Terry love love love the way this quilt came out. I love the quilting on it ~ makes your stars stand out.
Terry, those straight line quilting lines really make the quilt. I can’t imagine it any other way. Beautiful work.