Lone Star using HSTs

I can't help but if you ever find out or a source for a pattern could you let us know to please Kathy ?

Kathy,

Are you sure they were HST's and not pieced 45 degree diamonds?

Lone Star quilts are traditionally made from small diamonds pieced into large diamond shapes. At a quick glance, if the smaller diamond pieces were made up of 2 different fabrics, it might look like HST's.

The diamond could be made up of 2 ***help me out here** isoscoles (?) triangles

- that's where 2 sides are the same.

(wow - my head hurts from dredging up that info. it was buried pretty deep and hadn't been accessed in about 2.5 decades.)

To see the difference, cut a 2" x 12" strip and then crosscut it at a 45 degree angle every 2 inches. You'll see that that diamonds cannot equally be cut into 2 right triangles (HST).

Hope that helps. I don't know how else to explain it.

Anyway, Jan Krentz's book "Lone Star & Beyond" is fabulous and I highly recommend it. NAYY

-Michele (who just finished 2 Lone Star quilts)

No they were HSTs not triangles and the women actually said they were HSTs. I actually figured out an 8 pt star on graph paper using the HSTs and those HSTs of course could be any size but I would also like to be able to add more levels with more colors. I am not experienced enough to do A Lone Star the traditional way as yet. Eventually I'll get it in HSTs 'cause I'm determined :)

Before I attempt to do it the traditional way I NEED a class in it.

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

Fons and Porter's book "Quilter's Complete Guide" has a chapter on

8-pointed stars and strip-piecing large diamonds for a lone star wall quilt. I have made several Christmas tree skirts using a similar method

Julia > No they were HSTs not triangles and the women actually said they were HSTs.

I explained to a co-worked abt the 8 pt star and HSTs and she feels it may be matematically impossible to create a large Lone Star look-alike with HSTs. So I may have to be satisfied with the one-level star until I have a chance to practise and master the traditional way of strip-piecing a Lone Star. I will see if I can find that book at the library though.

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

Kathy,

LOL!! After your reply to mine, I went back to EQ5 and have spent the better part of an hour trying to figure it out. I've also cut a bit of fabric too attempting to replicate. I;ve not been very successful.

Now it's bugging me, so I'll give it another shot when I get back tonight.

I know the key is with the rhombus!

-Michele

Yes it is a puzzlement! I've been trying since Monday with graph paper and colored pensils :)

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

Umm, {{shyly rubbing foot in the dirt and looking up from under eyelashes}} you don't actually need a class. I did a traditional lone star for my 2nd "proper" quilt and they were all hand cut hand pieced diamonds and it really wasn't hard once you figured out which way to sew the diamonds. Turned out pretty good too, iff'n I say so myself. There's a picture on my webpage if you want to see.

Very nice! thanks for sharing that pic with me. The diamond and inset pieces sort of scare me off right now but if you say so maybe I will "try" to do a small one tradtional way :)

-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:

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AW nuts, I have been watching this thread hoping that there was an "easier way" to to a Lone Star, because I just LOVE them. Someday I'll do one. Someday.

Ann

P.S. I th> I explained to a co-worked abt the 8 pt star and HSTs and she feels it may

Well, since I've never made a lone star quilt, and this doesn't use 45 degree diamonds, I guess you'd call it a lone star "like" pattern. I can draw an expanded 8 point star on 1/4 inch grid using HSTs. The colors would lay differently than in a lone star diamond, and if I were doing it I'd have to have a colored pattern in front of my face or it would get all messed up :) The pattern I drew on the 1/4 graph paper measured 3 inches sq. and I was able to use 4 colors. Has anyone else come up with this? Bonnie

There was a pattern published several years ago for a Lone star- like quilt, I have a copy of the picture if that would help. Also for those who want to make a lone star QNM published instructions inMay of '93 for any size Star you want.