Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Oh My Stars! Quilt Along

I had this past week off and it was very productive quilt-wise.  One of the projects I worked on was a quilt along that I found accidently while blog hopping.  It's from the thought & found blog, and the tutorials for the blocks are very well done.  I especially love the tutorial on how to make quick Flying Geese blocks for the Sawtooth Star block.


I'm loving the Sawtooth Star blocks that I'm making.  Although I really like the layout of the quilt along, my quilt will be different because I'm incorporating different star blocks and will be using only 8" and 4" blocks.   I think that the 12" blocks are too big. 

Instead of my usual black and white fabrics for the background, I'm using a Kona solid in dark gray, which contrasts very nicely with the vintagey fabrics that I'm using.  They're pretty, aren't they?

6 comments:

  1. Oh wow. These are fabulous! Just what I need...yet another QAL. Still...this is extremely tempting ;). I'm loving your butterfly fabric in the top left corner.

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  2. Cool! I love that you will only be using 2 sized stars and am looking forward to seeing how your final quilt top turns out!

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  3. The dark grey background is perfect and I love how you used it in that one block.

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  4. Your stars are looking great, and I'm so pleased that you're reinterpreting the pattern to suit your needs. I'm all about reworking patterns to make them my own!

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