The Blue Star goes home

    Despite all the goings on here, I was able to get the Big Chevron Star to its home. My daughter's roomate from college has a little girl that has big medical issues from birth, especially heart problems. She has been back and forth to Boston, MA from Rochester, NY too many times. She was scheduled to go again, and I thought of her older sister who was going to stay with grandma and grandma again while the little one was in the hospital. I asked her mom what big sister liked and she said anything and the color blue, so I wrestled through the Big Chevron Star which had languished in uncertainty and finished it up.
    Quilting it was fun. I tried to vary the scale of motifs and make them fun in the fabrics. The kit had a wonderful fabric for the binding which I used. I made a big pocket for a bag for the quilt and mailed it to her grandparents' house while her sister was in the hospital. She was greatly surprised. She sent me a cute thank you via her grandparents. So glad I could brighten her day and give her some comfort. Aren't quilts just the best?

The star finally shines

      A project that had sat too long and needed to be met head on is a kit that I bought (rarely ever buy kits, but the price was so cheap for Hoffman digital fabric) for the Big Chevron Star. The pattern was confusing and I needed to make freezer paper pattern pieces in order to get the star points to sew and work properly. I can't just measure with rulers and get pieces to come out on diagonals reliably, but hey, that is probably just me.
     The part where I got stuck and the whole thing ended up in bag was when I started to add the background. It was floppy and not meeting up and it looked like a disaster.
      Recently, one of my good and knowledgeable friends and I met up and I brought the offending bag and asked for help. When we laid it out, it became apparent that I had not goofed, but the layout was goofy and needed some unusual trimming to work out. I got my head wrapped around that and worked on the background for each blade and assembled the whole thing into kind of a awkward looking top, but then was able to carefully trim and the top emerged. I added the top and bottom borders and now it looks great. Nice size comfort quilt.

See the wonky looking sections trying to come together?