The first blocks for Radiant Blues are finished! These stars finish at 16". All of the stars are going to have a flower center.
There is a glow to the center fabric that doesn't show in the pictures. The gold vine gives the fabric a brown tint in the picture. It's not that way in real life. The fabric around the center is a light gray but it looks white in real life also.
I took these pictures outside but they have a dark tint to them. Hopefully the next photos will show their brilliance.
It takes me two days to piece one block. Feathered stars are slow blocks to piece.
The pattern for Radiant Blue(s) is found in the January/February 2007 issue of Fons & Porter's Love of Quilting magazine and is designed by Marsha McCloskey. I'm not using Marsha's directions to piece the stars, I'm foundation paper piecing them using the 16" pattern found here from Threaded Quilting Studio.
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