The Quilting Continues: Christmas Star

After the fun day of rediscovering quilting I pulled out the Christmas bundle and decided to take on a much more adventurous project.

 

Christmas stash!

  

I picked out a quilt pattern from an old Better Homes and Garden quilting book.

 

Followed directions for cutting templates.

 

Used the template to cut out diamond shaped pieces with 1/4 seem allowance.

 

I used my NEW (!) rotary cutter to cut the pieces, it is so much faster than scissors. I also layered the fabrics and cut just once to save time. I reccomend this only if you have a very steady hand since the fabric can slip.

 

This is the color scheme I came up with. I also picked up 2 yrds of brown for a filler.

 

Close up!

 

Basket on my sewing table for all the scraps (on to make a scrap quilt!)

More to come as the project progresses!