One of My Favorite Quilts
So what is your favorite quilt? The one you've created and you love the most? I saw a vintage 6-point star quilt draped over a sofa in a magazine ad years ago. I loved it. I drafted the star shapes (thank you, high school geometry teacher!) and pieced this together on my Singer Featherweight one year when we were spending a month in warmer clime. This was my first quilt where the seams extended only to the point of the piece, and not into the seam allowance. To get the vintage look I chose 1930s reproduction fabrics and also used some genuine vintage fabrics my DD found for me at a yard sale. The yellow was very difficult to find...quilt shops had not yet begun carrying large selections of solid colors. Finished this one by hand quilting.
3 Comments:
At November 13, 2007 at 8:25 PM , Flossysmom said...
I like your quilt .Could you tell me how I can make it for myself . What shapes did you use for the star ?
At January 17, 2012 at 6:17 PM , Stephanie T said...
The Nov/Dec 1986 Quilters Newsletter Mag. has this pattern in it. They call it Tea Box.
At June 28, 2014 at 6:01 PM , Unknown said...
It has been TOOOOOO many years since high school geometry!! Please tell me how you drafted the triangles between the stars.
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