I really really planned to blog weekly. When you read this blog though, you get what comes. Plans change.
Last December, I joined a Christmas quilt block exchange. Make 14 Christmas quilt blocks, trade them with 14 of your friends, and end up with a 14 block quilt. Sounds simple, doesn't it. Except that the first three or four blocks I received (they are not really due until September, but most folks apparently are getting them done early), anyway the first three or four were trees, which was MY IDEA. Oh well.
I discarded a Santa, a candle, and went with my next idea: a star. See, I have had in mind to do a star, a five-pointed star, using 10 fabrics. I thought of this about 2008, and got the fabric then. So for the exchange, I made a couple of test blocks, then I cut the fabric and made the blocks. Well, amazingly, they came out pretty cute.
My original idea called for 6 Christmas fabrics, one for the middle, and five points. But after I got done testing, and tweaking, I ended up with five Christmas fabrics in each star. And another set of stars with the star in the background fabric, and the Christmas fabrics around the edges. Each set of six fabrics plus background made 12 blocks. Since I needed 14, I simply made two sets, and got 24 stars. So after I give 14 away, I will have 10 left, plus my two test blocks, enough to make myself a star quilt top also. Bonus!
If I ever find my camera again, I will post pictures. Hope you can find things more easily than I can at this point.
