I've been working up quilt ideas for my friend Stephanie who is having a baby girl in October. Lone star quilts are popping up all over quilting blogs these days and I've been wanting to work with diamond pieces again since making the Argyle quilt last year, so I thought this would be a good opportunity. I also had the right number of different fabrics (left over from Libby's quilt), and they were the right length the pattern called for, so it was perfect. Oh, and I also have to learn a new skill -- Y Seams -- to make this quilt, so another plus to chalk up on the board. With all of that going for it, I jumped in and put this together in about 3 hours last night. Once I put in the background pieces, it will be about 32 inches square. I'm hoping I have enough fabric to make another 1/2 lone star and then I'll offset the two and have a good size baby quilt. I should mention this looks much more complicated than it is, here's the tutorial I followed:
http://betteroffthread.com/2012/08/19/scrappy-lone-star-tutorial-part-1/
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