Tag: Sunshine and Shadow Starburst

This one seems like a Valentine’s Day block with all of the red. I really like it, and it came together very quickly without much of the hemming and hawing that I sometimes have when picking out coordinating fabrics.

I found the little homespun plaid in this block at a quilting retreat I went on last year. So I pulled some fabrics that I thought would coordinate, and set to making another Sunshine and Shadow Starburst block. I don’t think I have too many more of these to make before I can lay them… Continue reading A little cheer

I’ve had three sets of shades of green homespun plaid strips cut and waiting to be made into new blocks, so I got the first of the three done this weekend. It might be a little hard to tell, but the olive plaid has a stripe of navy running through it, which made me want… Continue reading Olive and blue starburst

I was pulling out more homespun woven plaid fabrics to make my trees when I spotted the one I used in this block. It seemed to want to coordinate with a red, so I picked that one out pretty quickly. There is some green in this fabric too, but since I just did a block… Continue reading Red and brown starburst

Sometimes I think one set of fabrics will work together, and once I get them cut out and ready to sew, they just really don’t. That was the case with this block. When I saw the original fabrics laid out, the block just fell flat, so it was back to the drawing board. For some… Continue reading Not the original concept