Star Light Star Bright46” x 46”Designed and made by Heidi PridemoreQuilted by Monica Croom
This month’s project was made using the GO! Hunter Star 6” Finished (55166) and Cat’s Cradle collection from Michael Miller Fabrics. The Hunter Star die creates such an elegant block, The challenge was finding a group of fabrics that would reflect this elegance. The Cat’s Cradle collection was perfect for this project. The fabrics all have pretty little metallic stars printed all over the fabrics. The Hunter Star die makes this project so easy to make. It cuts each piece accurately so piecing the project is a breeze.
I always love quilts that
only use a few fabrics. Don’t get me wrong, I love scrappy quilts too, but for
me they always require extra brain power mixing all the colors in the quilt
top. So every once and I while I like to make a quilt that only uses a couple
fabrics. This one uses seven fabrics. Each one plays a part in the design. You
will need two contrasting colors for each block, a fabric for the centerpiece
and borders. The sweet cat print was perfect for the centerpiece. I used a
mixture of pinks with a cream and gray for the blocks and added the mint green
to add a pop to the quilt.
The pattern for this
month’s project is free from The Whimsical Workshop. You can download the free
pattern at www.TheWhimsicalWorkshop.com along with our past free patterns.
On to the assembly….
Once you have die cut all the pieces,
It is best to layout the blocks to make sure you have the correct pieced
together. This block can be confusing when sewing the pieces together.
First
step is to sew one small diamond on one end for the trapazoid. When you place
the diamond on top of the trapazoid, the edge of the diamond top should be
flush with the top of the trapazoid. If it is not. Just turn the diamond around
to the other end and it should line up perfectly.
Repeat Step one with the
other end of the trapezoid and another
diamond.
Next sew the large triangle to the top
of the sewn unit. This will make one half of the Hunter Star block. The other half the Hunter Star Block
is assembled the same way with the colors of the pieces reversed.
To make the star block, you need to make
four matching Hunter Star blocks and sew them together to make one star block.
For my quilt I
made four Cream/Dark Pink blocks and four Gray/Light Pink Blocks.
Once the blocks are all sewn, it is
time to lay out the blocks. I kept the layout nice a simple. Again when you are
working with a complex and elegant block such as this one, it is always a good
ideas to keep things simple so the block can shine.
We asked Monica our quilter to quilt
the top and she did an amazing job! She created a feeling of movement over the
quilt by quilting Wandering stars. Hope you have as much fun with this easy
project to use up some of your pre-cut packs. As always please send along your projects to
us at info@thewhimsicalworkshop.com
and we can add you to our bragging rights page on our website.
Make
sure to visit my blog each month where I will share with you some tips and
tricks on cutting and assembling of the project of the month along with posting
the free pattern on our website The
Whimsical Workshop You can also see
our pattern and post at www.accuquilt.com
Until next time…..
Heidi
