Saturday Sampler Christmas flimsy

 This must be the week of working with monster size quilts.  I'm binding one of them, and finished the quilt top for another one.  It's about 78" x 94".  

Midnight Stars is the name of this Saturday Sampler pattern by Amber Plemones at Sew Simple.  I chose to make 3 very different versions of this quilt, mainly because the blocks were so fast and easy to make.  But the pieced sashing is only going on ONE of them because it was quite time consuming.  Worth it in the end, but definitely time consuming.  

I deviated from the original with my borders as well as the triangles  next to each block.  I chose not to make the triangles in a different color, instead using the grey snowflake background.  And the pattern called for a wide 10" outer border using the background.  I added a narrow background border to make those squares float, and then added an 6" outer border of a Christmas print.   I didn't want this Christmas-y quilt to have quite so much grey.  I'm very satisfied with the result. 

Next steps - make the other 2 versions of the final block.