There were three Lone Stars in my Grandmother's suitcase of orphan blocks. I saw a picture of a Lone Star table topper on Pinterest and thought it was so cute and decided to do table toppers with these three Lone Stars. I think Yiayia would like the idea.
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| This is the first one completed. It is a quiet little riot of Federal blues, reds and pinks. And perfectly imperfect with one of the star points 'out of pattern' and a little piece of make-do tan fabric. |
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| The other two Lone Stars are indigo and white. One is completed, the third one is a work in process. |
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| I'm hand quilting the stars and finishing the edges with a traditional knife or butt edge binding. To try to keep the star points from getting too wonky, the center pieces are all quilted first leaving the edge pieces un-quilted when I do the knife edge bind. Pippa Ross at her Welsh Quilt blog has a wonderful tutorial on how to do a traditional knife edge binding. http://welshquilts.blogspot.com/2011/07/how-to-sew-traditional-or-knife-edge.html |
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| Once the interior pieces are quilted, excess batting and backing are trimmed away, the edges are folder under and pinned together. It takes forever plus two and a half hours to do the trimming and pinning, repinning and repinning to get the star points just right. I knew those little applique pins would come in handy one day. |
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| The second star done. |
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| With all my Grandmother's quilty things, I am always prone to pondering whose shirt or dress did that fabric used to be? |
