Hello everyone! Welcome to my stop on the My Favorite Quilt Block Blog Hop hosted by Carla at
Creatin' In the Sticks. Thank you so much Carla for letting me participate in this hop! I hope you all will be sure to visit Carla's blog to enter the drawing she has going after you have visited and commented on the blogs today!
I have had a lot of fun checking out everyone's favorite blocks the past couple days, and no surprise, there have been a lot of star blocks. I am here to share even more with you!
I am highly attracted to all the star blocks, but really love Lonestar quilts. I looked the block up in Barbara Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns (1993) and it says the name Lone Star first appeared in the Ladies Art Company catalog sometime between 1028 and 1934, as well as in patterns from Ruby McKim and Carlie Sexton in that same time period. It's quite fun to look through this book and see that the Lone Star name was used for 8 blocks that all look very different from what I associate lonestar with!
It is no joke when I say I am very attracted to this block. I even use it as part of my business logo! (For those of you who are new to me, I am a longarm quilter in Walla Walla, WA.)
The logo was inspired by the first lonestar I made, which was for the Picnic Blog Hop a number of years ago. John (my husband) said he felt I had truely become a quilter after I finished that quilt, and thus felt it is a good representation of me and my business. Isn't that sweet? Here is my patriotic lonestar with a denim star backing:
I made a flannel baby quilt for a family friend a few years ago:
This is closer to a Lemoyne Star but it's so similar that I am including it; a tree skirt that I made for my Aunt Carolyn:
Just last year I made this beach quilt:
I recently finished this denim backing for my sister's quilt, only to realize I made the top entirely too small! So, borders will be happening soon... lol!
The Christmas runner is one I began last year, it's a work in progress. The tiny blue and white star will become the centernof a spool block for a spool quilt that I have in progress, it's so cute! The diamonds are about 1/2" big. And the pretty block behind them all is the barn quilt I painted this summer! I hosted a class for my guild and we had a lot of fun painting our favorite blocks to hang on our houses. I believe one even was hung on a barn!
In case anyone is wondering, yes, I y-seam all those corners. It was one of the first techniques I mastered when I started quilting about 7 years ago, and I have since realized I prefer less seams if at all possible. We will see how long that lasts!
Thank you so much for visiting today, I hope you will visit my fellow bloggers today and please be sure to leave some comment love! I would like to know, have you made a lonestar quilt? If so, what colors? I am always on the lookout for more star goodness in my life!
Thursday, September 12th
Websterquilt
Cynthia's Creating Ark
Nutz 4 Redwork
Quiltsbyjoanne
Ms P Designs USA
Pampered Pettit
Hill Valley Quilter
Have a wonderful day!
~Brandy
Thomas helped me get our newest addition to the sewing machine family in place this last weekend. This is my great-great-grandmother's machine, a White treadle that I was told was used to make my great-grandma's diapers. Seems likely, as the patents listed on the machine range from 1877-1890 and Great-Grandma turned 95 this year... I feel quite fortunate that Grandma said I was welcome to have it as I was the only one to recognize what it was!
