![Photo of a bed with a dark grey head board. On the bed is a coverlet in eggshell white with a large star design in blue colours.](https://www.carinascraftblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/star-quilt01-1440x1859.jpg)
We were in Denmark recently to celebrate both of my parents turning 70. And I was finally able to take pictures of their present from us, a coverlet with a giant starflower patchwork block. I gave them the coverlet when they visited us in July but I hadn’t been able to take a decent picture of it because their bed is larger than ours and so the coverlet looks odd on our smaller bed…
![Close view of star shaped giant patchwork in blue fabrics.](https://www.carinascraftblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/star-quilt03-1440x1105.jpg)
The background fabric is BOMULL, unbleached cotton from IKEA. It is cheap which is useful for such a large coverlet! But it is also soft and the colour goes perfectly with the rest of the fabrics. I really like that BOMULL fabric but sadly it looks like it has been discontinued. :-(
The rest of the fabrics are from various collections by Janet Clare. I really like these fabrics but I had had them for several years without finding a fitting project for them. But they would go very well in my parents’ bedroom. I deliberately chose the giant starflower block to really show the fabrics.
![Photo of a small eight point star patchwork block in blue colours on an eggshell white background.](https://www.carinascraftblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/star-quilt02-1440x1465.jpg)
In the four corners, where the coverlet drops to the floor, I added much smaller starflower blocks. Just to break up the sea of creamy whiteness. I’m very happy with the effect of that. I wanted the giant starflower to be the focus but the four corner blocks add just a bit of variation to the rest. The binding is made up of strips of varying lengths of the same Janet Clare fabrics.
This was supposed to be a quilt (i.e. with a layer of wadding between front and back) but it would have been much too bulky to wrangle the quilting on my sewing machine. The two layers turned out to be a challenge too, even with the very simple straight line quilting. It is pretty wonky but I choose to see that as charm. :-D
Speaking of charm, the IKEA fabric has the perfect amount of crinkle now that the coverlet has been quilted and washed. :-)
I think you can see the crinkle effect in the photo below. It almost makes it feel like there is a third layer in the coverlet.
![Overhead photo of a bed with a dark grey head board. On the bed is a coverlet in eggshell white with a large star design in blue colours.](https://www.carinascraftblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/star-quilt04-1440x1678.jpg)