The Time has come. Oh boy, Oh Boy! I just, and I do mean just, finished piecing the 8th and final diamond in my Lone Star Quilt. Now for anyone keeping track (aka me!) there are 512 diamonds in this lovely star.
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| Lone Star Diamonds All Pieced |
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| Lone Star Center Detail |
I will not be putting this together just yet as I'm going to wait until I have all my background pieces ready. I've bounced around more than a few ideas about the rays that will come off of this star and my current idea is to use a New York Beauty Paper pieced block. Wont that be a new challenge! For now I'm looking for three colors to make up that block. Two different colors for the rays and the background fabric color. Any suggestions? One thought I had was that perhaps one color for the straight background blocks and a different one for the on point background blocks. But I'm not sure. I'm currently thinking teal, a lighter brighter fuchsia, brown and cream.
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| Lone Star Layout Plans |
Here is the layout I plan to use. This layout will bring my quilt up to about 100" square. I think if I make this a bed sized quilt my husband will never let it come off of the bed much less go and live with someone else. I would have never thought that he cared where my quilts go to live, but there have been one or two that I've theorized about giving away and he's gotten sort of a stony gargoyle expression. I'll have to try to remember that the next time he tells me a quilt looks "good".
8 comments:
OMG, that is so beautiful! This is on my to do in the future list. You have done such a great job! Tell the gargoyle not to let that one leave the house, unless of course you're ready to make another. :)
WOW that looks so impressive and I'm sure that in person it must be breath taking. I wish I could be there to see it.
I love this quilt too. It could only go to someone that deserved lots of love. I can't sell quilts and generally just give to people I consider special. The exception is charity quilts and those are done because I am so blessed that I have to share a little at least.
That is going to be fabulous!
Your quilt looks fabulous already. I can quite see your DH's point about it staying with you.
My fabrics have, at last, arrived, so I may be able to get started this week.
I say "OH BOY" too...looks fantastic!!!
Beautiful! How long has it taken to get to this point? Some day . . .
I think it's wonderful! The design is amazing but I was most happy to read what you said about Rob at the end. I can tell that he truly treasures the work that you put in to your quilts!
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