lone star

Here's what I did ALL day yesterday...

or so it felt like.

I quilted...

and quilted...

and quilted.

The top has been done now for a few months

But, the quilting wasn't.

I had this quilt top waiting in the wings,

waiting for me to come up with some GREAT

quilting technique...

but it never happened.

I was never inspired.

Soooo I finally went ahead and just quilted it all over with

some swirls.

No marking for me!

I like the binding.

Thought I would be using RED,

but when I looked at the red it just wasn't right.

This is how I made this quilt.

I used newspaper!

Cut my star points.

Every star began with a white center that I

tacked down with a little glue stick.

(I wouldn't recommend this because the

ink from the paper got on some of my whites.)

Maybe plain newsprint would work better!

Then I just added strips of red, white and blue

any size......

all the way across those star points.

You can see here the center of the starts all have a white strip.

The rest of the strips ALL came from

my scraps!

I know.....too many scraps at my house.

I still have more! oh no!

After all the star points were done...

I DID have to rip off all that paper on the back!

I enjoyed getting this off my to do list.

I love this quilt.
And I enjoyed the process.

Here's the beginning of a new quilt.
Same process.
Different sized shapes.





The backs of those pieces.
You can see how I sewed right through the paper.
For those NON quilters out there.
That's called Paper piecing....
ON THE CHEAP.

If you're a real detective, you can figure out
what month it was when I started these by
checking out the movie ads on the back there. :)