Three or four years ago (in our very early quilting days), my mom came across a pattern somewhere for a "wannabe" lone star wall-hanging made of half-square triangles. Instead of having diamonds, the lone star is made up of little parallelograms which are much easier to piece and approximate diamonds from afar.
We had a lot of fun laying out the half square triangles on the top bunk-bed at my mom's house- It was tricky to make sure we were sewing the right sides together-one wrong seam and the pattern was totally awry. I've always loved that pinwheel print in the quilt border, I wish I had some more of it; alas all that's left is a few tiny pieces in the scrap bin. Anyway, the main lesson I learned from this quilt was to watch my print choices; the wretchedness of those mis-matched center stripes still gives me a headache. Alas, making the easy version didn't assuage my desire to make a real lone star. This quilt hangs now in my quilting room where it mainly serves as a pin-board on which I hang other works-in-progress.
Sorry for the work gloves and pile of fabric in the picture. I'd take a new photo, but three other projects are currently pinned haphazardly on top of this one. As an aside, the blog name "I'm working on a project" is, as Professor Dumbledore once said, "optimistic to the point of foolishness." I've never worked a single project in my whole life and in common with most quilters, the UFOs in my quilting room outnumber the finished work.
Back on the subject, in 2009 I decided to make a quilt for Mike; when I asked him what kind of quilt he wanted he pointed at the wannabe lone star and said he wanted one like this one. I figured it would be the perfect occasion to try out the real thing. So- tomorrow, the real lone star.
