Tag: Broken Star Log Cabin

My long weekend did not go as I had planned (I took Friday off as a vacation day), but I still managed to get that first set of light strips on the third round. My optometrist worked me in for a check on my right eye Thursday afternoon – I suspected that I’d experienced a… Continue reading Ready for next strips

Thanks to the keen eyes of my dear friend Phyllis, I now have four more neutral squares. I had forgotten to count the ones in the corners of the quilt. Luckily she alerted me to the missing blocks so I could go ahead and make them before forging ahead with the rest of the regular… Continue reading 4 more!

I was already two rounds into the blue versions of this block when I started working on them in earnest. So I went ahead and added the remaining two rounds, which took pretty much an entire day to complete – 16 beauties. Now to make 112 neutral and blue combined blocks, which are already partly… Continue reading Blue blocks

For the broken star log cabin design to work, you have to make some blocks that are a single color all the way around – they aren’t half-light and half-dark. There are 32 (I think) in my broken star mockup/design – 16 using the neutrals and 16 using the blues. So I worked on making… Continue reading 16 neutral blocks

I made my brother a quilt a long, long time ago, almost 20 years ago now (wow!). I hand-quilted it (when I was hand-quilting most of my quilts), so it took a while to make, start-to-finish. I drafted out the ship blocks after watching an episode of Quilting from the Heartland with Sharlene Jorgenson. But… Continue reading Slow cut strips