After weeks, it seemed, of cutting tiny triangles and laboriously sewing them together -- 144 star points, 192 blue background triangles, and 96 blue rectangles that would get a cream square stitched to one end thereby becoming a triangle -- weeks, I kid you not, weeks -- I arrived this week at the stage of piecing the actual quilt blocks. These come together gratifyingly quickly, with some judicious pins (to keep track of what goes where) and about an hour of chain-piecing in stages, even allowing time for a cup of tea in the middle.
I am fairly pleased with the fabrics, though to be honest they don't have quite the "starry night" effect I had pictured in my mind, being more of a Los-Angeles-sky grey, and the risk I took in selecting a Kona Cotton solid online wasn't entirely successful either, but there it is. This is mostly outweighed by my relief that my amateur cutting and piecing is not too much of a liability, not after an onslaught by the steam iron anyway. Twelve of these big blocks to put together, then comes arranging them and adding the borders.
And in "Quaker Virtues" news, page nine is completed -- this is from "MONY" down to the corner, again with some inroads into the adjoining page to orient myself, since there is no overlap on the chart. I confess to having done just a bit of tweaking here and there, spacing some of the smaller motifs and letters more evenly, though I had to admit defeat on that X-shaped star next to the small J, which I suppose will haunt me the rest of my days but would not be moved. Quite a lot of blue in my life these days --
The star quilt looks impressive to me. I'm sure Laura will appreciate it and treasure it.
Posted by: Berva Smith | March 11, 2021 at 06:22 PM
You have made a great start to your quilt, it looks lovely.The cross-stitch looks really good too. All blue is fine for me.
Posted by: dawninnl | March 12, 2021 at 01:27 PM