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Hunter’s Star Part One

Posted on September 16, 2013 | 5 comments

I caught kaleidoscope fever, and I’ve wanted to create a Hunter’s Star for quite a while now. Why not combine the two?

I purchased the Inklingo Hunter’s Star 9 Inch collection sometime ago. I also received a wonderful design book for free!

I used both Inklingo and Electric Quilt to design my quilt. It isn’t vital to use either one of these programs, but I do love my quilt toys! You can certainly use graph paper and colored pencils.

This paisley is the fabric that I chose for my stars. The white lines are chalk marks…I forgot to take a picture before I started marking fabric repeats.

I’ve cut squares of fabric that I iron onto freezer paper and, using Inklingo, and my printer, will yield lots of diamonds to stitch.

Printed diamond shapes (very little waste here).

All of the fabric printed and ready to rotary cut and sew.

More shapes printed onto fabric that is backed with freezer paper.

Printed, cut and sorted. I’m ready to sew!

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Anvil Quilt Block Part 2

Posted on September 13, 2013 | 9 comments

Last week, I shared a few quilt designs using the Anvil quilt block in straight set designs.

This week, I played with the Anvil quilt block on point.

It is a bit boring to me when placed side by side as in the above design.

How about adding one more color and rotating some of the blocks:

That’s better.

Moving color around reveals a couple of odd shaped stars. Do you see them?

I love the arrows in the next design, but I’m not a big fan of those floating pink triangles around the outside edges.

Again, moving color around, rotating some blocks, and adding plain blocks to create a sense of space:

I like the stars in the center, and I like the way the design is framed.

I like it without the stars in the center too:

Last…but not least:

Amazing what one can do with one simple block.

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Anvil Quilt Block

Posted on September 6, 2013 | 10 comments

I’ve been playing with the Anvil Quilt Block.

I drew it with a 4 x 4 grid.

If you have BlockBase, it is #2645, but it is not difficult to draw, and is good practice.

Here is what the Anvil quilt block looks like set side by side in a straight set:

Still side by side in a straight set, but the colors have been changed up. Some of the blocks are rotated as well:

Still using only the Anvil block, the next design looks like arrows:

I like it!

Adding sashing strips does make the quilt larger (a popular technique), but I don’t find it very exciting:

I have added a plain block, and a variation drawn from the Anvil quilt block, to the next design. I find this a lot more interesting:

Two more designs:

Which is your favorite? Why? Which is your least favorite? Why?

We’ll see what playing with the Anvil quilt block on point turns up next week.

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