I’ve gotten the first Star Wars quilt sandwiched, but it’s rather uninteresting to see a lump of basted quilt, so instead here’s a shot of what’s on my machine for a small distraction before going to town quilting an Artoo unit.  I also got all the last bits assembled for the second top with the exception of the applique. Once that’s in place, that top should come together quickly.

And by “small”, I mean 2″ squares, not small in quantity, because this is the 2nd group of these shapes I’m sewing for a total of 288 total. This is a new scrappy quilt that I’m working on that will remain a bit of a mystery until I get the kinks worked out in the design.

The Helper Cats have rallied a bit this week, so we are enjoying our time together. Zoom insists on sitting right next to or on top of what I am sewing on the machine, which is lovely if I was trying to hold it down, but not so great for actual sewing.

Having cut out the big squares for the border, the next piece of business for the Star Wars quilts is the applique design in the centers.  My parents requested an R2D2 for theirs, so I’ve been searching out line art or color pages, and lucked out thanks to the internet.  Because the centers will measure about 27×40.5″, I need a pretty big Artoo unit, although I may add some smaller elements or quilting detail once I see how this works out.  To make it big, I used the “poster print out” option on my printer to blow up a regular 8.5×11″ picture by 300%.  Here I am getting some helpering to tape it together: