the old star quilt.....

Yesterday morning I sent a text to Crispy asking for a picture of the old quilt with the new binding. This photo came back. 

It took me a minute to figure out what I was looking at. 

Oh geez, he is still in bed, and this isn't exactly what I was thinking for a photo.

He tried again when he got up.

I think they are 12 inch HST's forming the star. The blue and red checks at the top and bottom are 4 inches.

where did September go?

WAY back in August the Blue Earth Valley Quilters had their quilt show. Friday night was a Jelly Roll Derby. Those participating brought a jelly roll to use, along with 2 1/2 inch squares for inserting between strips. I finished somewhere in the middle. 

Karen finished first! 

I bought mine from Connecting Threads. It contained 27 strips, so I bought two. For the derby I used 40 of them. I wondered what to do with the rest of them. I could make this or that....

In the end I just made another long strip with them and added it to the top, then the bottom to use it all up. And now this is ready for the quilter!

This is as big as my Celtic Solstice is going to get. I started hating my colors, and I wanted these cleared out before the next Bonnie Hunter Mystery.

Using what I had, I started putting things together in different ways, just to use them up.

This one used up a lot of the border sections. They are in the sashing instead. Another future baby quilt or tablecloth. And then there were still left over sections....

Table toppers or dresser scarves. 

Now I am ready to THINK about doing another mystery.

When Crispy was packing for school, this quilt was on the pile. I asked why he wanted to take that ratty old thing. 

"It's my favorite!" 

Really?? 

Uck. Let me fix it first.

 I chopped off the old binding and added the new darker blue that is in the picture. There are some weak spot in the top, but this should give it new life for a while.

It was made back in the 90's.

I don't have a picture of what it looks like. It is a County Threads pattern of a big star. I didn't have the pattern, but I was able to figure out the math and put it together one snowy afternoon.

I'll work on getting a picture.