quiltsmart lone star

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!!!

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:

Have fun with it:-)

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claudia wrote:

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!

Don't plan to hand quilt it.

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

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

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

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!

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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Anne Rogers wrote:

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