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quiltsmart lone star

Hello everyone.

Things have been HECTIC around here lately! I am working too many hours. Will be on call for the next 65 hours (yes I know, it's ridiculous!), locked up here in the health care center. Thankfully, it is currently raining, so that will hopefully mean few people. What with work and caring for DH, helping him recover from his cervical surgery last month, I have barely had any time to breathe, never mind doing anything involving a needle (other than suturing, but that does NOT count!). DH was not allowed to drive for a month so that involved a lot of extra driving. Yesterday he finally drove and things went really well.

But, if nothing else the many miles through the Spanish countryside do provide for creative thinking. Inspiration comes easily to me (sometimes!) while I going from rural area to even more rural area.

So, the latest peak of cerebral activity (they are few and far between) is a lone star quilt. I bought a 4-color quiltsmart kit (waiting for the mail to bring it to me) and I'm toying with either shades of pink, shades of yellow/orange or shades of beige/brown.

Does anyone have experience with the quiltsmart method? Does it work? Is it really as easy as they make it out to be? Any particular pitfalls I should be aware of? Any other tips/hints or comments?

I'd love to hear.

And, if andwhen I ever get anything done, I promise to post pics!

Claudia

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claudia
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I did a small quiltsmart lone star. You can see it in my webshots folder under Kathy's Quilts. I thought it went pretty easy. I wish I had put the one ring of red in such a way that it was a "ring" -- but other than that.... was a fun and relatively "easy" project!

Have fun with it!!!

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Kate G.

Claudia, I made one (well the top anyway, haven't quilted it yet) It went together really easily in spite of the fact that I wanted to use more fabrics than recommended to make it scrappier looking. My only warning is to plan your colors very carefully.

Mine is here:

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if you want to take a peek.

Have fun with it:-)

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claudia wrote:

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Rose in CA

Piggybacking here. I'm getting thoroughly disgusted with earthlink's failure to provide me with what I'm paying for. Okay -- end of mini-rant. ;)

Claudia, I've never done the quiltsmart method and don't even know what it is! But I have done two lone star quilt variations (shown here: ) and really enjoyed both of them. Best of luck with yours! We're counting on those pics!

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Sandy

Don't plan to hand quilt it.

Julia in MN

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Julia in MN

The Lone Star I grew up with was nearly a study in warm colored prints. From deep blood red to orange to pale yellow. The cooler colors were burgundy and dark violet, and the little bits of cool colors in the various prints.

Debra in VA See my quilts at

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Debra

looks like quite a good method, if you like that kind of thing, I'm very happy with foundation piecing, so it's definitely tempting to do it that way when I come to do a lone star, I don't think I'd buy this particular tool, partly because it's only one size and only 4 diamonds - I think I want to do 6 or 7, but also because I'd be a bit paranoid about pressing and it sticking, I mean most of the time I press ok, but on the odd occasion it doesn't go well, I want to flip it back, reset the seam and go again, you can't do that with fusible interfacing.

Cheers Anne

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Anne Rogers

Gosh, Sandy, I don't think I've ever seen a Lone Star with 16 points before. It looks very complicated. It's also very pretty! . In message , Sandy writes

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Patti

Thanks, Pat! It was all strip-pieced and not nearly as difficult as you might think. What was complicated was the quilting, since "someone" seemed to want me not to be able to do it. A herniated disk in my back and a broken tailbone were both conspiring against me. LOL!

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Sandy

Anne, Mine is eight diamonds and the larger size. If your LQS doesn't carry it you can get the quiltsmart on line. The have a mariners compass that I haven't tried but might -- also a dahlia and I think a tumbling block. It really takes the tedious part out of these harder quilts and lets you concentrate on color and fabric and such. NAYY

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Rose in CA

ahh, when I first googled it, I only came up with the smaller version! The larger version seems pretty pricey, but I can see that it would be very useful. I'm actually planning a large mariners compass right now, problem is, there are so many variations, that the one I was thinking of is nothing like the quiltsmart one. I've been designing it at a quarter size and worked out that I only have to draw an 8th of it full size accurately to be able to produce the foundations.

Cheers Anne

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Anne Rogers

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