I’m so excited to share the Stars issue from Curated Quilts. Several months ago I entered Wild Stardust in their mini quilt challenge. To my delight they accepted my quilt. This is the second challenge I have participated in but my first quilt published.

Curated Quilts is published quarterly. Each issue has a theme and a mini quilt challenge. Guidelines are posted on the website and Instagram. Colors are given but they are left open to interpretation. Size is restricted to a 16 1/2 inch squars. My interpretation of the project evolved into wonky stars with the denim color as the main background and improve center blocks. Wild Stardust was born. You can learn more about my process here.

My favorite part of Curated Quilts Star issue was learning more about Gwen Marston and her Liberated Quiltmaking. I just love that name. It encompasses my take on quilting, which has always been very brave. Basically take any quilt style and make it your own. By changing size, fabric, color, scale anyone can create something new and different. Maybe that’s what draws me to quilting. Each quilt is an individual artistic expression. Karen Lewis touches on this in her article titled Integrity where she talks about how there aren’t original ideas in quilting but the whole composition becomes original in the way it is interpreted by the sewist. A great example of this is reflected in all the challenge quilts every month. We are asked to use a certain theme and color palette but beyond that there are no rules other than the size limitation. All is open for reinterpretation except the size.

As Gwen Martson would say, “Make the quilts you want to make and make them the way you want to make them.” Words to quilt by!

~Diana