Fiber pirates baggo 2008

I belong to a Yahoo group known as Fiber Pirates. We had a Baggo challenge. For those who aren't familiar with baggo's, the rules are as follows: You fill a gallon zip lock bag with an assortment of fabrics, trims, embellishments, etc that you would like in a quilt & mail it to a coordinator. The coordinator sends you back one from someone else, you make a quilt using as much as you want from the baggo, adding to it if necessary, post pictures & when the sender of the baggo claims it, you send them the finished piece. It's a great way to get someone else's artwork made with fabrics that you love. Here's what I started out with: I started out by making 3 pieced rings & then I realized that one of them didn't go with the others, so I decided to make 2 quilts. I named the first one "Red star & Planets".

Ashley helped me to quilt the second one. She loves the BSR on my Bernina. Take note of her perfect control of the quilt! Machine quilting can be exhausting!
After it was quilted, I added embellishments by hand. I love to work outside at our camp.

Here's the second quilt. Charlie came up with the name-"A Galaxy Far Far Away." Here's a closeup of one of the pieced stars:
Now I get to see who to send them to.