I've been working on a lot of things lately. Mainly trying to get all of my required blocks done for each week. That has been my priority. This star appliqué block was the last block to be done for the month and just in the nick of time.....lol. This is part of the Welcome to the North Pole quilt. You'll notice that the stars are a bit organic....I don't know how else to describe it. The shapes are not intended to be perfect. The whole quilt is a bit on the organic side....lol. Something I am going to have to get used to.
As the theme of this post started with stars, I thought I would throw this quilt in here too. This was part of the show and share from one of the ladies in our monthly Saturday sew day. She made stars. This quilt is a gift to her friend who is retiring. The quilt is lap size. The maker knew that her friend liked things that are more on the feminine side, which is how she selected the fabrics. I don't think there was an actual pattern for this quilt, or I wasn't told what it was, if there was one.
It's interesting how it has the background pattern that creates radiating diamonds from the centre star block all the way out to the perimeter of the quilt. It adds movement. The play of light and medium fabric colours to make this subtle effect. Then the maker added in a burgundy flange before adding the last two borders. Very pretty.
Take care everyone.
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