This is more or less the final arrangement I settled upon. I moved around some of the green and orange blocks within their color groups. I almost wish I had six more blocks to make the grid 6x8, but I may just be overthinking it.
I'm still considering what to do for borders. I would like to use this on our queen size bed, but as it stands now, these blocks will come out to only 54x63. That's quite a bit of area to make up to cover a mattress that's 60x80, not even counting overhang. I was thinking of a plain 2"-3" border, then another intricate pieced border, maybe just of the star points, followed by another plain border. And maybe the pieced border only has star pieces grouped intermittently throughout the border. I haven't decided. Let me know if you have any expanding ideas that would help me get the finished quilt to somewhere around 90x106, or whatever the recommended queen quilt size is.
Love love love it. Thanks for sharing!
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Thank you, Lissa!
DeleteIt is gorgeous! I love your layout! May you tell me your easy/cheat way to do Hunter's Star?
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm looking for a link to the easy pattern. In the mean time, the basic idea is that you use three matching 5" charm packs. You match 3 dark squares of the same fabric/pattern with 3 light squares of another fabric/pattern (hence the reason why you need 3 charm packs). Set one dark and one light square aside. With the other two pairs of light/dark, put each pair RST and sew around the edges, then cut from corner to corner, twice. This yields 4 half square triangles (HST) from each pair of squares. Now with your 8 HST and your 3rd pair of blocks set aside, you assemble the block.
DeleteStill looking for the pattern. I'll post the link when I find it!
Here it is! http://www.cascadequilts.com/2011/02/hunter-star-tutorial.html
DeleteI forgot the part where you need to trim the HST down to 2 3/4". That's kind of important. :)
I used 6 charm packs, which yields 42 9" blocks. 3 charm packs will yield 21 9" blocks, which will make for a nice block placement of 4x5, and a good size lap quilt. Enjoy!