One week ago I took the Seven Sisters Workshop with Don Beld (quilt maker, historian, antique quilt collector, and founder of the Home of the Brave quilt project) at Citrus Belt Quilters. I especially like his rule that in hand-piecing there are no rules. Everyone was pleased to be able to finish one impeccably accurate star unit. I finished the pink on black star in class and have been working on the others since then.
When I started out I meant to use a lot of black fabric in the background, but I quickly tired of the feeling of sewing blind that I get even in good light when working with black fabric. Usually I just ignore it and pretend that I can actually see what I’m doing, but I want to take this quilt in a different direction instead and mix it up with some taupe and beige.
Above are a bunch of the diamonds that I’ve cut out in preparation for making more stars. I’m going to just keep making stars until I decide that I’ve made enough stars or maybe just plain had enough, whichever comes first.