Sharon’s Bali Wedding Star
Posted on November 24, 2025 by prairiemoonquilts in Longarm QuiltingI recently quilted a Bali Wedding Star quilt for a customer, Sharon, from New Jersey. This quilt is a Judy Niemeyer Quiltworx pattern, paper foundation pieced, and it’s an undertaking!
Sharon’s quilt was all batiks for the colored bits, and various cream fabrics for the background. Totally scrappy, totally works. This was as good a photo as I could get of the entire thing when I was finished. You kinda have to tilt your head sideways — haha!
Also, it was very difficult to get any good photos of this while I was quilting. I tried several different angles at various times of day, but below are some closeups so you can see the quilting.
Sharon chose a bunch of designs from Pinterest that she liked, and then I mixed and matched and adapted and combined those to come up with the designs I used on her quilt.
The repetition killed me! I had to play lots of games with myself to keep going. And it was very difficult to get those little circles in the middle perfectly round, since I had to go around the star points while making them!
I quilted the arcs very simply, and put little leaves in all the corner posts.
The quilt is 80″ x 80″, and I used wool batting in it to give it some great texture. I quilted it with Superior Threads OMNI Cream #3004. I think this is my favorite photo of it:
Here are the rulers I used: QP Curve #15 and BFF (the green ones) by Linda Hrcka of The Quilted Pineapple. The 9″ Slim ruler from Kelly Cline Quilting. And the 2.5″ circle ruler from my set of nested circle templates. All non-computerized quilting on my INNOVA M24.
Sharon has it back, and says she loves it, so to me, in the end, that’s all that matters . . . a happy customer!
Shelly you knocked it out of the park on this one. Great job!!!!!!!
WOW for the piecing, color choices and out of the park for your quilting.
You just are getting better and better.
Oh my goodness that is beautiful. Those little circles look perfect to me! Awesome quilting work!
Stunning! I get the process boredom, though.
Wow! Beautiful! So much work there in the piecing and quilting!
Gorgeous quilt! Both the piecing and the quilting are awesome!!
Sharon’s quilt is gorgeous, and you rocked the quilting! I can’t imagine stitching all those little circles!! Nice finish!
Beautifully done by both of you!
It is spectacular! Not only the piecing, but the quilting also. Congratulations!!
What an amazing quilting job you completed !! It is beautiful. Thank you for sharing it.
Your art work on this quilt is wonderful Shelly!
Shelly, you knocked it out of the park with this one. You totally amaze me. It’s by soooooo beautiful. Congrats 👏👏❤️
Beautiful work!
Oh, Shelly, your work is magnificent!!!
absolutely beautiful!
What a beautiful quilt between the fabrics, piecing and gorgeous quilting. The wool batting really adds dimension. Thank you for sharing such eye candy.