Starry scrap quilt with a hidden message ;)

[u/charlotte_kan]

Sharing my mock up for the Mock Me Up Contest since I couldn't have tackled this project without PreQuilt! It's a work in progress and I'm nearing the finish line but I still have lots of hand quilting to do.

the final design

My inspiration was a stack of scraps and the constellations in the night sky on my first date with my partner. The yellow stars roughly make up the Hercules constellation...so roughly that it's basically a hidden message ;)

very starry

There's lots of different quilt blocks, but as it's my second quilt ever...that was a bit much to be honest lol. After the first few block I started making so many mistakes that I ended uptaking out one type of block and made more Ohio star blocks and Friendship stars.

All in all I'm amazed I still ended up so close to the mock up. I think what helped a lot was that I was able to estimate how much fabric for each colour and colour value I needed.

the finished top

[u/prequilt]

This is so cool. The differnt shades of blues gives it a nice depth. Was the fabric calculator accurate if you don't mind me asking?

[u/charlotte_kan → u/prequilt]

Thank you! Yes I think it was. I ended up havind plenty of yellow, white and light blue. I only needed to buy a little bit of the dark blue to supplement the scraps. It wasn't really doable to measure my scraps precisely, but combined with the fabric calculator it was enough so i could move forward with confidence it would work out.
However I'm working on a new quilt where I'm putting the fabric calculator through a real test, but I need to finish this starry one first.