a couple finishes for January . . .

This lap-sized quilt is a surprise for a friend of mine . . . I won't tell you which one in case she reads my blog.  The pattern is a free online tutorial called Giant Vintage Star from In Color Order.  I did simple straight line quilting on either side of the ditch, which gives a nice design to the back of the quilt too.

The fabrics are a mix of Kumari Garden (which I won from a giveaway from Swell Cloth) and a mix of some other coordinating prints (which I picked out with a gift certificate I won from Modern Fabric Studio).  The batting is the new Eco-Cotton blend from Pellon which was given to me to review a while back.  And the backing is a Mar Bella minky from Fabric.com (I had actually bought it for a different quilt, but ended up making that quilt too large for the piece I ordered).  So in all, this was an almost-free quilt, just the backing was purchased by me (but it was in need of a project anyways).

And my second finish is this quick little table-topper for myself.  The fabric line is from Moda called Arcadia, and the honeybun was a giveaway prize from the SewMamaSew Giveaway Day in December.

Linking up to {Sew} Modern Monday and Fabric Tuesday.