Tag: Lone Star

Lone Star Sampler- Mc Calls Quilting

Rarely does the sun and the moon align just right that 2 of my quilts are featured in different magazines the same month. So February 2014 must be lucky for me.
Check out McCall’s Quilting January/February 2014 
issue to
see my Lone Star Sampler quilt.

I am not much of a wine drinker and I am not a huge 
fan of the color purple, but as soon as I saw the 
Vin Du Jour by 3 sisters,
 I couldn’t resist.

 I set forth to see what I could do with a Jelly roll. 
This collection has the perfect balance of lights and darks. 
Almost exactly half darks and half mediums/lights making the combinations of values endless.
 I  started playing with a lone star block to see how many
 different color studies I could do using the 
light and darks to determine the the pattern.

 Strip piecing the sections and reversing some of the strips makes this quilt look more difficult that it really is.
Which is your favorite star block?
 I am torn between
 block 1, row 1
and block 3, row 2 or
possibly block 1, row 3.

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By the time I had finished the stars I had fallen in love with the grape tonal all over and
had to use it for some of the backgrounds.

Lone Star Sampler: 2 1/2" Precut Jelly Roll™ Strip-Pieced Quilt Pattern
image provided by McCalls Magazine

To read more about this issue, click here. I hope you enjoy this quilt as much as I did making it.

Cabbage and Roses Lone Star

This has been one of my favorite quilts ever ever. The collection was chocolat by 3 sisters.
Yummy, rich fabrics that were good enough to eat. Get it the name of the group-Chocolat
The quilt pattern was named, Truffles.
Debbi Duckworth made the quilt and no picture can do it justice. 
I got to thinking
about this quilt
 and this fabric.

This line has yummy linen/cotton solids in it. I wish blogs would let you touch the fabric but until then you will just have to believe me.So I set forth to use the denim linen as my background. I love how it turned out!
Did I tell you that I don’t do the “A” word? Applique.
So here is my version of the quilt above.

I have included a link to the chocolat pattern if you want to give this project a try.

Northcote Range by Cabbages and Roses will be in stores September.