Another setting for the star blocks

I saw this on Lisa Coulombe's Facebook page, and loved the starry sashing. I might consider something like this (in jewel tones) for setting our shared star blocks.

Perspective

March meeting

As always fun to come together for inspiration.

Jeralynn shared with us what she learned on using perspective in a quilt. Below is a sample of one of her quilts.

Star blocks inspiration?

Ladies: I saw this image of a quilt on The Quilt Show's email this morning, and it made me think of our star blocks project. Maybe this will provide inspiration/ideas for how to set our blocks:

February Quilt Meeting

Remember ladies that we will be meeting at Debbie Fort's on Thursday, February 25th to work on pillowcases for charity. You will need 7/8 yard fabric for the main body, 1/3 yard for the border, and 1/8 yard for the accent strip. If your fabric for the main body is directional, you may need 1 1/4 yards. Look through your stash and see what you can put together. A few of us will need to bring sewing machines. I'll bring mine, Debbie will have hers, and the first two to email me can bring theirs. It will be a lot of fun. We'll start at 7:00.

Background Fabric for our Star Blocks

So I went to Bits and Pieces Saturday and got the neutral background fabric for our star block project. (Bottom picture on the right.)

It seems to have a gold undertone and I think it has a nice texture. The middle picture gives a comparison of it to the three neutral fabrics that we picked from Thursday's meeting. Pretty close, I think.

The number of choices was actually somewhat limited since we needed 12 1/2 yards. So the woman who helped me and I could only look for very "fat bolts" because bolts in general only have 14-15 yards on them (interesting fact to know).

FYI, at the top is a picture with the "color wheel" of jewel tones.

If I bought the full (rest of the) bolt, Bits and Pieces gave a 25% discount. The bolt had 13 1/2 yards, so I went ahead and got the whole thing to get the discount. So I do have extra fabric for anyone who wants more than a yard and a half. (Laura already has dibs on 2 yards.) I have not done the math yet to determine individual cost, but will do so soon. Just wanted to get these pictures up quickly. Call me if you want me to cut you a piece and get started!

November Meeting

At our last meeting we shared some sample jewel tone fabrics that we thought would work well with for next group project. Below is a sample of a gold background fabric and some Jewel tones that we could use for our "Valley of the Sun Stars" Or should I say our Jeweled Star Quilt. Some of us chose our star pattern from the Quilted Cache Website http://quilterscache.com/QuiltBlocksGalore58.html. So take a look and choose your star. See you at our next group meeting!