Back in 2017, Deanna at the Wedding Dress Blue Blog, started a quiltalong called the Irish Star Quiltalong As soon as I saw it I knew I had to make the quilt. What could be better than a quilt full of scrappy stars and 25 patch blocks made of 2″ squares? Yes I’m crazy, but she also had an option of 1.5″ squares. I resisted the urge as that was too small even for me. My crazy has some limits. Well, that and I don’t keep 1.5″ squares of scrap fabric.
Here is one of my first blocks:
I just love that purple fabric.
I sewed and sewed and in the end made 159 blocks blocks in total – nearly enough for a queen sized quilt.
In April 2018 I attended a quilting retreat and started to sew the blocks together. While doing that I realised I’d prefer a throw/lap quilt rather than a bed quilt.
This top used 63 of the blocks and resides in my box of flimsies ready to be quilted. I don’t know why I’m aging it before quilting it.
Last year I realised I still had Irish Star Quiltalong blocks sitting in a project box. I decided to sew 25 of them into a square baby quilt.
That still left me with plenty of blocks to do something with. Rather than make a larger quilt with the remaining blocks I sewed them into two more quilt tops!
I had one alternate block left after making these for 4 quilt tops. I tossed it into the trash so I wouldn’t get any ideas about making any more of these quilts. Enough already!.
Now to find backings and get these four Irish Star Quiltalong quilts, quilted, bound, finished and 3 of them gifted.
Linking with Quilting Patchwork Applique