North Star

I wanted to use up some of the green fabric left over from my nephew's wedding quilt.  I combined the greens with a blue, green and purple batik jelly roll.  North Star is a Missouri Star pattern, but mine is 4 x 6 blocks instead of 6 x 6 because I ran out of the light green fabric.    I also left off the border that the pattern calls for.    I've had it cut out since last fall and am just now getting it sewn up. 

 I am not entirely happy with this quilt.  To begin with, I don't really like the color combination.  I am glad to find this out now because I've been planning a quilt in similar colors in my head.  Time to rethink that!  My workmanship is not my best.  There are a bunch of stitch and flip corner triangles in this quilt, which is not my favorite technique.

North Star is not a pattern with nice nesting intersections.  You could make it that way, but it would require a whole lot of forethought when pressing.  I wasn't willing to put forth the effort, so a lot of my intersections are bulky, and my points are far from perfect.  I just wanted to get it  finished.

I will probably donate this top and get it out of my life!  It is a good size for a charity quilt, and I think the colors work well for a boy.  It is  43 1/2" x 64".


I've also been working on my Wild and Goosey blocks.  So far I have 60.

I need about 200 before I can start thinking of a layout.  I like to make these over a long period of time because I get a wider variety of scraps that way.

Stash Report:                                                                                                                      

Used this week: 2 yards (North Star)

Used YTD: 25.75 yards

Added this week: 0 yards  

Added YTD: 37.0 yards

Net:  +11.25 yards