The block is one from the Civil War block of the Week series, Right Hand of Friendship, which was week 43, late October last year. When I made the block for Roger and Laurie's quilt, I commented it would make a great scrappy quilt. So I'm making a scrappy quilt with it now, though I'm going to use the same background swirly green and white print for all 9 star blocks to unify them. And I'm making it at 9 inches so the cutting math is far more standard than when we made all the blocks at 8 inches for that series.
I have a plan to use a block I've never made before for the alternates in my on-point setting. Accidentally and on purpose, I managed to collect a lot of these themed prints over the years I've been quilting. I made one quilt probably 10 years ago that is too simple a design for my current taste and abilities. And then, while working on these stars, I chose several prints from my collection that are not "Christmas" prints - so it's not going to make much room in the fabric drawer for anything new. I'll still have enough Christmas prints when I'm done to make a king sized quilt I think.
The Christmas fabrics obviously have some aging on them. The current Christmas prints all seem to use a yellow green that I'm not crazy about. I prefer my muted blue-greens and sage greens so it's just as well I bought them when I did.
2 comments:
I can't even get through "book characters" yet, so Christmas quilts, usually thought of at this time of year, won't be forthcoming this year.
I like this design, and remember when you did it for the Civil War quilt.
I am especially drawn to your unifying fabric choice.
A new project is always energising. Is each fabric going to appear only in one block? I wish you much (Christmas)joy in making this and emptying the drawer just a little. The stars are looking lovely.
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