Musings of a Menopausal Melon...mmmquilts: Celestial Déjà Vu

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Celestial Déjà Vu

Déjà vu indeed. If you are having that kind of moment when you see this quilt, your memory is correct! I one very close to this earlier this year for a Project Quilting challenge. I called the first one Circadian Rhythm. I liked it so much, and I had enough of the Celestial fabric, that I planned to make another.

Besides, I had cut too many triangles for the first one!

When I was making the first one, I couldn’t decide which fabric to use for the corner triangles that frame the sun and moon fabric.

For that first quilt I went with both which meant that I had another set cut, and only needed eight more for the other two blocks. I love the background that I used for this second quilt: cream with gold sparkles. It’s been in my stack of whites and creams yardage for (cough) a while. Perfect for this quilt.

The date on the above photo tells me I started putting these blocks together at the beginning of April. They were done as leader/ender blocks as well as those moments of, “I don’t know what to sew right now, but this is mindless and all cut.”

Here is the flimsy.

Finding the perfect border was interesting. I had no more of the blue/violet star points fabric, but this royal blue picked up nicely on the blue frames. It’s the same manufacturer as the blue/violet, Shadow Blush by Benartex Designer Fabrics. Did you notice there are two blue frame fabrics in this quilt? I did not have enough of the silver dot fabric, barely enough to make the trapezoid shapes for two blocks, so another dig brought up the blue and silver stars fabric which is another ‘vintage’ one from the stash. This quilt has a bit wider sashing too, my mistake in not looking back for what I did in the first one--½” finished; this one is 1” finished.

The perfect yellow for the back, but not quite enough, is this Debbie Mumm oldie but goodie. I extended it with the blue stripe (that makes my eyes go nuts). I fully intended to use it as well for binding, even though I’d have had to cut it lengthwise on the grain, but I didn’t like the effect when I pinned it onto the design wall to check.

I did a similar quilting motif as on the first quilt: swirls. I did throw in some fat pebbles and floppy feathers. Straight lines went in the border.

Sneak peek of another finish beneath this one staying flat on the design wall—pattern release coming soon!

Back into the stash of stripes I went, looking for a better binding fabric (I used to pick them up from time to time on sale for future quilts...do I love past Sandra) and found this absolute perfection by Ricky Tims. All it has on the selvedge is Rhapsody so I’m not sure if that is the name or was it some kind of rhapsody? Bohemian?