Barb Vlack
Star Bright
I wanted to make a blue and white quilt with an irregular edge. The five-pointed star blocks are set on Layer 2 over a 10-point star block set on Layer 1.
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St. Charles, Illinois, USA
Barb Vlack
Twisted Ribbons and Stars
Block is drawn as a square and then skewed to a 60-degree diamond with the Baby Blocks layout.
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St. Charles, Illinois, USA
Claudia Chang
Broken Star
Used Star #42 Layout.
Taiwan
Alexis Dunstan
Christmas Star
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Alexis Dunstan
Stars Fell on Alabama
Design taken from
state flag and
state stone "Star Blue Quartz"
Saskatchewan, Canada
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Anna Scott
Diamonds and Stars
My own layout with Drunkards path used for
the middle star. Then the outside blocks are my own design. Reminds
me of Stars and ribbons wrapped thru sort of.
Wynne, Arkansas
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Anna Scott
Diamonds and Stars 2
Again my own layout with my own block design used for
the middle star instead of Drunkards path. Makes for a different sort
of Star.
Wynne, Arkansas
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Bev Adcock
Plaid Stars 1
This uses the block Quarter Star in a Star in a Baby
Blocks setting. It would be easier to piece than it looks!
Nashville, TN
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Bev Adcock
Plaid Stars 2
Same Baby Blocks
setting, but with the stars black and the plaids moved to the background.
Nashville, TN
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Carien V.
Summerstar
Carien V.
Winterstar
Cheryl B.
Bright Blue Stars
I love how blue and yellow-orange look together. Looking forward to making this one.
Carole Casadonte
Star 1
Used Barb Vlack's
instructions from her book EQ5 Quilt Design. This setting makes it look
dimensional.
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Carole Casadonte
Star 2
This one is more like the tree skirt.
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C.A. Schultz
Cold Winter Nights
Floating on point- 1
Tucson, AZ
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C.A. Schultz
Stars in the Winter Night in Tucson
Tucson, AZ
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Charlotte
Kleiner
Across the Milky Way
I used EQ's Vertical Strip Quilt layout and the Half Drop Dbl Diamonds strip style for this quilt. I changed the width of each Vertical strip but kept the number of diamonds in each strip the same. I first placed the Eight-Pointed star into all the blocks and then created the pattern by replacing some of them with plain blocks.
Fabrics used are:
Celestial Polos Collection
Designed by Princess Mirah Designs
Copyright Bali Fabrics and
Celestials
Designed by Hoffman
Copyright Hoffman California-International Fabrics
Quilt Design © Charlotte Kleiner
Winnipeg, MB Canada
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Carola Forsberg
Vision of Stars
Carola Forsberg
TULIP STAR
This is the "Lone Star" Layout from Karen Stones great CD, but here I created some tulips in the star to make a beautiful wallhanging of it.
Dahn Casselman
Tree of Stars
This is a hodge podge of techniques and stars directly pulled from the libraries. I imported a neat tree stock and scattered stars across the background. If some of the stars were placed on point, it would be interesting as well. Enjoy!
Yukon, Canada
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Daphne Stewart
"Star Ship Four, Ready for Docking"
There is no real reason for this quilt to remind me of some kind of space port but it does, hence the name. It's possible that if you need to explain the name, it's not a good one anyway...
I started with the block "Diamond" and added lines. I'm thinking of paper=piecing the star portion (without the background) to applique on a vest or a tote.
Sunnyside, Washington
Daphne Stewart
Feeling Patriotic
The center star is a variation of an earlier one that won a $25 first prize in a local store's block contest. I then entered the same block in EQ's anniversary contest and was an also-ran, still winning an EQ book of my choice. Is it any wonder I have a fondness for this star?
The simplified border
stars are easy to paper-piece. The center one is neat to paper-piece
in a small size but for this quilt it's 19 inches and would be easier
to sew with templates.
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Dorothy Atkinson
We Three Kings of Orient Are Bearing Gifts
Blocks are from EQ Block Library.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all of my dear fellow EQers.
Thankyou to the Staff of EQ and Users who are so willing to help and
share their ideas.
From snowy Georgian
Bay, ON. Canada
Dorothy Atkinson
T'was The Night Before Christmas
Blocks are from EQ Library.
From snowy Georgian Bay, ON.
Canada
E.G. Schooley
Shooting stars
E.G. Schooley
Star web
Elin Gudjonsdottir
Northern Lights
Iceland
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Eyglo
My Christmas Star Tree Quilt
This is in the begining a pattern I made for a class I was having and it was made in many different fabricks by the ladys in my class, but I liked it so much that I just had to make one for myself, and this one is with most of the fabricks I used for my quilt.
The tree blocks are paper pieced and the ornaments are
sewed on by a fancy gold thread. And then a machine quilted it.
I just loved how it turned out.
Iceland
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Faith Bluma
Garden Star
Custer, Wisconsin
Faith Bluma
Scrappy Center Stars
Custer, Wisconsin
Forest Jane
Vincent's Starry Night
When I saw the theme for this challenge, I started singing Don McLean's song, 'Starry, Starry Night' and went to Google to look at the painting. I got interested in the history, how Van Gogh painted this from the window of an asylum, how research has shown these are the actual positions of the stars he would have seen... he died at 37, a few months after finishing this painting.
This is the type of project that I'll never do in fabric, but I'd been lurking on the message boards, reading about importing fonts as bitmap images and tracing them, so I decided to try importing Van Gogh's painting. I learned a LOT!
Memphis, TN
Forest Jane
Blue Spiral Star
This one I might actually try in fabric.
It was a lot of fun to color... swapping out the beige with pink or red made the spiral jump, doing it in aquas and greens gave a watery whirlpool effect, making the background orange lent it a southwestern flair.
If I strip piece
the diamonds, adding an extra strip... then cut it in half, shifting
the right side up a block, it should be quick and easy to piece too!
Memphis, TN