Textile Time Travels: December 2022

Tuesday, December 20, 2022

December - Lone Star Blog Hop - Island Batik Ambassador Challenge

This month's Island Batik Ambassador assignment was definitely a true challenge - designing and making a Lone Star Quilt.

A classic traditional pattern and one that requires precise piecing. Sewing lots of 45 degree diamonds even with strip piecing is not for the faint of heart but ... it does reward the brave quilter with an amazing quilt.

And it really helps if you have beautiful fabric to sew with like the Modern Opulence Collection designed by Deb Tucker of Studio 180 Design. Such an elegant palette with lovely flowers and triangles and diamonds in rich indigos, oranges, yellows, and reds!

Look at how beautiful these fabrics are! I created 4 different sets of star points

Set One

Set Two

Set Three

Set Four

TA DA!!!! The FINAL QUILT Design **I used all 22 fabrics in the collection

OPULENT LONE STAR

66" x 66"

Traditional and Original Design

Sandra Starley

December 2022

Fabrics: Modern Opulence Collection - every fabric (22 pieces)

Backing: Island Batik Linen (Naturally Neutrals)

Batting: Hobbs Premium 80/20 Bleached Cotton Batting and

Piecing Thread: Aurifil #50 weight

Quilting Thread: Aurifil #50 weight

75/11 Chrome Needle: Schmetz Quilting Needles

Pieced and quilted by Sandra Starley

***Fabrics provided by Island Batik, batting by Hobbs, thread by Aurifil, needles by Schmetz, Strip cutter and Go Cutting Machine by Accuquilt, ***

A bit of the design process.
I first started off strip piecing a 4 x 4 diamond segment star which was pretty but not fabulous

So I decided to turn the 8 completed segments into a 6 x 6 segment star. This was pretty tricky to do and not the recommended way to make a Lone Star.

There are soooooo many different ways to arrange the 8 large diamonds. Here was a funky option.

And should the star be framed? Have extra piecing?

Once, I got those 8 new and improved segments done, I decided to frame them with a golden border. I think it gave it a striking finish. Hope you agree. ***Have you ever made a Lone Star? Jump in and give it a try!

Island Batik Ambassador - Lone Star Blog Hop

It is already Week 3 of the Challenge so you will absolutely want to check back with the already posted Lone Star Quilts by my fellow Ambassadors! I am floored at the creativity, variety, and sheer beauty of all the quilts. And don't forget to catch the last few days of the Blog Hop and enter the Giveaway @IslandBatik's blog.

WEEK 3
December 19