A year or so ago, I won a layer cake called Harper's Garden from Green Fairy Quilts on the Terrific Tuesday Giveaway on Melissa's blog. I couldn't decide what to do with it.
Recently, while perusing blogs in a linky party, I came across Susie's Scraps which has great patterns for scrappy quilts. One of the patterns was the Arrowhead Block which uses 10" squares. I really should have been working on another project but I followed the directions and made 2 blocks.
To stretch the cake fabrics, I'm pairing them with Kona fabrics from the solids tub. These two blocks were made with the spring green fabric left from the string X quilt. This is in keeping with my determination to try to use more interesting background fabrics.
This year I decided to subscribe to Block magazine from the Missouri Star Quilt Co. The first issue came February 20th, the same day I was leaving for Phoenix. I stuck it in my bag so I could peruse it while I was on my vacation.
I selected several patterns I wanted to make with some of the precuts I had on hand. When I told someone I was going to make some quilts from this magazine, they told me they didn't like MSQ patterns, they weren't challenging enough.
I wasn't looking for challenging patterns, I've made several quilts that took years from start to finish. I wanted fast and easy.
The first quilt to be made from Volume 1, 2020 of Block is Summer Stars. MSQ has the pattern for sale but you can watch the tutorial for free. Just click it and watch.
This really is a fast and easy pattern. I cut the pieces last Friday afternoon and started sewing Saturday. I finished on Monday. That's a record for me! It even finished at the same size the pattern said it would, that's another record!
Edited - I forgot to say that I didn't use the special ruler they called for. I used the 45* line on my regular long ruler. Worked just fine!
This is the first time I've ever made wonky stars and some of those stars are really weird but they're pieced.
I used a 30's jelly roll, I knew I wanted to make this quilt so I purchased the border fabric before the 'official' isolation started.
For now it's waiting in the 'to be quilted closet'.
As usual there was a breeze while I was trying to photograph the quilt on the clothesline.
These heifers were recently turned into this pasture, they've never experienced a quilt photo shoot so I took a picture of them by theirselves.
Linking to To Do Tuesday, Clever Chameleon, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put Your Foot Down, Needle & Thread Thursday
