2025 Shop Challenge Quilt
from Dark Star Fabrics

From Our Window, Dark Star Fabrics 2025 Shop Challenge Quilt

From Our Window
© 2025 Dark Star Fabrics

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Dark Star Fabrics’ 2025 Shop Challenge Quilt is From Our Window, now on display in our store.

Deb Black and Rachelle Knight of Dark Star Fabrics custom designed, pieced and quilted this diamond shaped art quilt (no, the center is not a panel) using the limited-edition featured fabrics designed exclusively for the 2025 Maine Quilt Shop Hop by Maine Designer Ericka O’Rourke.

The quilt is Deb and Rachelle’s most personal quilt ever:

  • The moose in the center replicates the moose who watched Deb leave for work one day.
  • The mountains, with an eagle soaring among them, replicate Mt. Blue and Tumbledown Mountain as Deb and Rachelle each see them from their dining rooms windows.
  • The water in the foreground replicates the Sandy River flowing through Phillips less than 100 yards from Dark Star Fabrics.

The quilt really does show what Deb and Rachelle see from their windows here in Maine’s Western Mountains, with a border displaying some of the featured fabrics’ colors and patterns.

If you are a Shop Hopper who visits 5 or more shops, you can vote for your favorite Shop Challenge Quilt when you send in your passport. We invite your vote.

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From Our Window
© 2025 Dark Star Fabrics

Past Dark Star Fabrics Challenge Quilts

In 2024, Deb and Rachelle created and quilted A Ribbon Runs Through It using the featured fabric line, Moda’s Honeybloom by 3 Sisters. The quilt won the top prize in the 2024 Shop Challenge.

In 2023, Deb and Rachelle created and quilted Flying Around Town using the featured fabric line, Benartex Fabrics’ Chalk Garden and Dancing Flowers florals and Chalk Texture blenders. The quilt earned 2nd place in the 2023 Shop Challenge.

In 2022, Deb and Rachelle, in collaboration with Janice White, designed, pieced, appliquéd and quilted What’s Up Buttercup? using the featured fabric lines, Wildflowers by House of Turnowsky and Rapture Coordinate Blenders by QT fabrics. The quilt earned 2nd place in the 2022 Shop Challenge.

In 2021, Deb created and quilted Barred Owl in Moonlight. This art quilt used only the Stardust featured fabric line by Banyan Batiks. The quilt won the top prize in the 2021 Shop Challenge.

In 2020, Rachelle and Deb created and quilted Under the Big Top, using the Birds and Berries of Maine featured fabric line. The quilt won the top prize in the 2020 Shop Challenge plus the Chauffeur’s Choice award.

In 2019, Dark Star Fabrics’ submission to the Shop Hop Challenge was Wildflower Fantasy, using the Wildflowers of Maine featured fabric line. The quilt earned 3rd place in the 2019 Shop Challenge.