I saw it on a you tube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwMy8dE8Rog
and fell in love with the apparent simplicity.
It is easy! Though I did have to take it apart when I put 2 strips in the wrong place!.
I thought I'd go with simple colouring for my first attempt, but having attempted it I'm confident I could add more colours.
I bought a stash of kona fat quarters to do some playing, I fancy trying out lots of new things - like above.
So now I had a lovely star. Do I just quilt it as a simple mini. (if you said yes then I'm afraid you need to get to know me a little better XD ) I've been pondering while I quilted the Hunter's star what to do with it. It reminded me of American Indian designs so I decided to add some arrows.
Similar colouring but I added some oranges to warm it up and some greys to stop it looking too paintboxy. The tip is the new flamingo colour http://www.plushaddict.co.uk/cotton-fabric/kona-cotton-solids/kona-pink-flamingo.html
and that is the colour that links all the elements.
I took 1 inch strips of the colours and cut them in half. I arranged the two sets of strips in different orders and each strip was 1cm above/ below the next one so that the finished edge was sloping. This meant I didn't waste much. I made sure the slopes were in different directions so that they would form an arrow tail. Measuring up I cut two 2 1/2 inch strips. I starched them ( I need to practice this step) and you can see I used white to lengthen them to the same length as the arrow stem. (this is just the width of my fat quarter) Finally the arrow tip is like a flying geese but I made the white bit longer. Then I used the rest of the white strip to join the two together.
Flying geese! I loved this video! so simple and very well explained. So I decided that this was what I needed next.
I started with 3 flamingo pink squares ( I didn't have a plan I just wanted to try them out ) and I made 12. Playing with them on the ironing board I came up with a pattern I liked so I sewed them together.
Three lovely items. Is that enough? Hmmm well I didn't think there was enough colour about so I wanted a little more purple.
I loved this block and I thought I'd try this in purple to end the flying geese line. I made them slightly larger at 5 inches. (there will be a lot of white strips to join all these together!
So where am I up to?
I'm using white paper behind to see what it will look like on my floor.
Can you see the little cut offs in the top right? This is what I'm thinking about right now. Does my quilt need a corner border th link some orange over there? Hmm Should I try tiny half square triangles? What about lozenge rectangles like beads to make a corner? Too much and better without?
I'm going to have coffee and trawl pinterest to see if I can find some inspiration!
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