Pieceful Playtime

Late this past summer I decided to take all of the leftover low volume fabric scraps from the two Chicken Soup quilts I was making for my children for Christmas and, following the Star Flower tutorial over at A Crafty Fox's blog, cut them into sixty degree diamonds. I needed three hundred diamonds to make fifty star flowers, as luck would have it, because I didn't know when to stop collecting fabrics, that wasn't a problem at all!  The stars themselves went together as easy as could be.
I was fearful of setting the stars into rows though, I worried about setting in the hexagon shapes and getting all those star points to line up. As it turned out the worry was for nothing.

The first two rows went together without a hitch this weekend. It took some time, careful attention was paid to pinning and to pressing, but as you can see it went together smoothly. This project isn't one for the "Quilt In A Day" crowd; not at all! This is one quilt that will grow and develop over the next few months. I will work on it when I have long, free afternoons and evenings...on those rare occasions when I can take my time and really enjoy the piecing process. I absolutley love what is unfolding here; all from those Chicken Soup leftovers. Can't you just imagine this one quilted? I can...

Life is Good!