Welcome to the 5th round of the Stay at Home Round Robin! This week it was Wendy from Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life's turn to pick, and she picked stars. Well, she actually picked wonky stars, but I am not a wonky gal. I planned non-wonky stars pretty much from the start, though I did mention that to Wendy at some point. She assured me that non-wonky stars are perfectly fine, so choose the type of star that works for you!
I went with classic saw tooth stars. I still had some of the fabulous tree print from Glacier View after using most of it on the back of my Whimsical Woods placemats and I thought the trees would be an excellent focal print for the center of my stars. I did not have enough of any one print for the points or backgrounds so they are intentionally scrappy. You can see that I did not fill in the corners, those will be a future round.
If you are sewing along, be sure to link up with Wendy. Here is the complete schedule for the Round Robin. Have more questions? Gail has lots of answers that you can find here.
- January 11: Center Blocks: Gail @ Quilting Gail
- January 18: 1st Round: Chris @ Chrisknitssews
- January 25: 2nd Round: Emily @ The Darling Dogwood --That's me!
- February 1: 3rd Round: Anja @ Anja Quilts
- February 8: 4th Round: Roseanne & Sue @ Home Sewn by Us
- February 15: 5th Round: Wendy @ Pieceful Thoughts of My Quilting Life
- February 22: 6th Round: Susan @ Quilt Fabrication
- February 28: 7th Round Gail @ Quilting Gail
Your stars look great! The dark and light together gives the effect of twinkling, I think! This is just turning out fantastic!
ReplyDeleteSo glad I wasn't the only non-wonky gal! Love the intentional scrappy! The tree centers are perfect.
ReplyDeleteLove your rendition of the SAHRR. It will be a fantastic quilt.
ReplyDeleteLove, love, LOVE it!!
ReplyDeleteLOVE the Stars that you chose to use, Emily!!
ReplyDeleteThe trees in your centers of the stars really looks nice.
ReplyDeleteI totally get the not so wonky feeling, but I love what you did with your stars. Now, to concentrate on stars for the mariner's compass!
ReplyDeleteHi Emily! You just can't go wrong with stars of any kind, and the Sawtooth version is my absolute favorite. It looks great as you've got it placed so far - can't wait to see what you're going to do in those corners! ~smile~ Roseanne
ReplyDeleteLove the trees in the centre of your stars! The colours are wonderful!!!
ReplyDeleteYour stars look great - love the tree fabric in the center.
ReplyDeleteEmily your stars are the perfect twinkly round even if they aren’t wonky. This little quilt is perfect for a Canadian Winter Wonderland like we are having this year. I’m looking forward to seeing what you do with those empty corners. I have a guess but will wait patiently until next week to see what the clue is. 😉 Carol
ReplyDeleteBeautiful. The fussy cut trees in the center work well - have to say I love the wintery feel of this project. Certainly appropriate for the weather that is happening all around the country!!
ReplyDeleteWow Emily this is coming along just so... so utterly cool! Ha couldn’t resist. Seriously it is really a beauty. I’m rather partial to migrating geese so that round I particularly love. I am also a stars lover though like you, not particularly wonky, so I do like what you did.
ReplyDeleteYour SAHRR is really coming together. Those cool blues just play together so well. Looking forward to seeing what you've planned for the next step.
ReplyDeleteLove that you chose to do non wonky stars! It looks great!
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