Many years ago I made this spiraling lone-star quilt. It hung over our kitchen table for a couple of years and I never took a single picture of it. Then a couple of years ago, I got to meet my college friend Poonam in New York City. Poonam had gone though some difficult times and I wanted to give her a quilt. I didn’t have time to make one for her at that time, so I decided to give her this bright quilt to cheer her up. My friend Indu took this picture in a hotel room in NYC with no natural light. It looks a lot better in person.
Digging through my old pictures from 2013, I found a few pictures I took when I was making the quilt (and not a single one after it was complete)! I’m still looking for that piece of paper in the first picture with calculations using the Pythagoras theorem. Then again, wouldn’t this be a good math assignment for my 8th grader?
All fabric from my stash – mostly batik, except the red and the fuchsia. The background is also a lovely batik with cream, tan and a bit of grey. Very simple quilting with a walking foot – this is from my pre-free motion days. I can’t even remember what I used for the backing.
This is my Throwback Thursday blog entry. Thank you Sandra , for the encouragement. I’m officially bitten by the spiral lone-star bug and I feel an inexplicable urge to make one using a Kona cotton jelly roll I got recently. This is therefore also my One monthly goal for May – to recreate the spiral lone star.
Looks cool! Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and good luck with your project!
I’ve never seen a lone star like this one. Very cool! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, Joanne, for visiting my blog and for your comment.I hope to make more like this!
I like it. It’s very unusual to see a spiraling Lone Star. I’m sure your friend loved and appreciated the gift of the original one.
Thank you for your comment, DeAnna. Yes, my friend loved it.
Thank you for linking this up!! It is a beauty, and you need to write to Poonam and get her to photograph it outside…hmm, in Central Park I’m thinking?! Or by the waterfront of one of the rivers… I have never seen or heard of a spiralling Lone Star and I just LOVE it! I do hope you may write a tutorial or a pattern because I won a gift certificate many years ago for entering into a quilt show, bought all the fabric to make a lone star with the gc (and spent a tad more than the gc of course…), and … ya…it’s a UFO. Not even cut into, so I could totally make it this way! Love the story, so generous of you, don’t think I could’ve done that!
Thank you for your comment, Sandra. Yes, I should ask Poonam for a picture!I hope to make one again and document the process and use the pictures to write a tutorial. Lone-star is such a versatile pattern.
Hi. I love your lone star quilt. It’s one of my favourite quilt design. I made one as one of my first quilts – before I knew how complex they are – oh to be so innocent again 🙂
Andree, Thank you for visiting my blog and thank you for the comment. I’ve made a few lonestar quilts and I always had to tug and pin and fudge to make the points match. I jumped into quilting after seeing a very complicated double wedding ring quilt. I’m glad I didn’t start that one as a beginner :-)Vasudha
Wow, this is gorgeous. Even though you don’t have your own picture of the finish, your in-progress pictures show the vibrant colors well. I’m glad you still have them. And the photo in the hotel room makes for a sweet memory. A Kona version will be super, too!
Thank you for visiting my blog and your lovely comment. Working on another bright version of this!
Gorgeous pattern, can’t wait to see this one done.
Thank you. I’m still working on it 🙂
This took my breath away. Love love love the way you combined the bright colors of a Kanjeevaram saree into the lone star quilt pattern. That is why I love fusion!!! And I love Sandra – she is one of the best!!!
Thank you very much, Preeti. What can I say? The Kanjeevaram colors are part of my DNA 🙂
Vasudha
I’ve never seen a spiraling lone star – very cool!
Thanks you, Jan.
What a beauty! I wish I had some pre-blogging quilts…but I didn’t know how to quilt before blogs..jajaja.
Zafira,
Thank you for visiting my blog and for your comment. There may have been blogging when I started quilting but I sure was late to the blog universe 🙂
Vasudha
This is an awesome version, I have never seen it with the spinning look created by fabric, beautiful!
Cheryl,Thank you for visiting my blog and for your lovely comment. Vasudha