New quilt for a new year!

This was a planned new quilt with a friend and my mom.  Mine is going to be burgundy and sand colour.  My friend and my mom will both being doing theirs in blues.  We were all going to start this quilt in Jan/2026, when we get together monthly to sew.  I started a block between Christmas and New Years, as the sized of the units were bothering me.  

I needed to know for sure it was going to work, before the other two went ahead and started making units.  I am glad that I did, as the nine patch units would have all been too big for the rest of the units.  And as the nine patch unit has to be divisible by three, I had to reconsider the sizes of all the other units, to avoid having to cut ridiculous sizes. 

Above is the main block.  An eight point star, with an hourglass unit for the centre, diagonal strings for the corners and straight strings between the star points.  The background in this case will be the burgundy with highlights of sand/beige.

Then we have the second alternating block.  This also has an hourglass unit for the centre, nine patches for the corners, and straight strings for the rest of the units.

I first posted about this quilt on August 9th, called Burgundy scrap quilt, if you want to read more about it.  In that post, I have a picture of the full quilt that I printed up using EQ.  I'm hoping this quilt will make a dent in my burgundy and sand scraps.  Two colours that I don't often use.

Take care everyone.  Hope you all had a great time celebrating and bringing in the New Year!!