4 Star Progress on the Byrum Family Quilt & MORE!

So happy to be linking this post to Whoop my progress up with Sarah today 🙂  Check out her post here 🙂  She has lots of eye candy today … and lots of links to look at too!!

Today I have 4 great stars to share with you…
I made 2 of each star in the same colorways…

<<<< This is "Star on Star" pattern from Patchwork Square website..
And this cutie >>>> is called “Swamp Angel” pattern also found at Patchwork Square.

Before we move forward to see the other 2 stars I want to share that Patchwork Square website tells you to cut a large square and then sub cut via diagonal slices your pieces down to the needed hst and qst unit sizes … all that said… I drafted my own patterns with my friend Wendy’s help and used rulers not subcutting squares to get my hst’s and qst’s with precise points….

 <<<<< This star is called "Bear Tracks" pattern by Patchwork Square…
>>>>> This star is my fave block of the star blocks for some reason.. it is just very happy and fun!  It is called “Evening Star” but I think the orange looks like butterflies going in for nectar from a flower 🙂  Silly me!  Pattern also from Patchwork Square.

Patchwork square is similar to quilter’s cache if you have visited there but not as uber organized… however>>> they have PICS!  I do better with a picture instead of just a name of a block… so I went HERE to get all these block ideas 🙂  WHOOP!

Also I struggled but finally won with a perfectly measured school house block!  It is part traditional piecing and part paper piecing….

I am super stoked about this block… see my pattern is not yet updated but here is my layout .. with this post maybe you can understand some of it 🙂
I make notes on my patterns for future reference… the “center” is on another piece of paper and the backing I will piece next is on yet another piece of paper! lol

So next up are those little 4″ blocks that I call “square in a square”.  I have my fabrics chosen… and with this final block sets done I will be ready to assemble this section of the quilt over the weekend I think!  WHOOP!!!!

I still have Wendy’s beautiful artwork she sent for this quilt to border and add the year to…
I will put this years date on it as when she made it in 2004 she dated it as well!  What a special piece this is to add to this quilt 🙂  Here is my friend Wendy…  you can see her work on her blog here 🙂

Wendy has been instrumental in helping me accomplish unrealistic goals I had set and make them happen!  I am amazed at what I have created with these blocks I have shared today!

So between the front and the back I will actually use ALL of the “special fabrics” I had purchased for this quilt… Amazing I think that I collected over a year or this and now am using all I collected to some extent somewhere in the quilt!  AMAZING how God works things out I think 🙂

Now that this quilt is mainly together I am excited to ask you a question about this post!

Would you like the chance to win a fun fat quarter… just pick a fave block of the 5 I have shared… and pin it to your Pinterest page please… Once you have shared it leave me a comment that you shared and which one was YOUR fave… and if you are a NO REPLY BLOGGER… leave your email addy pls otherwise your entry will be forfeited and another name drawn!  Drawing is SUNDAY August 10 🙂 & open to anyone anywhere that would love a FUN FAT QUARTER! I will contact the lucky commenter and let them have a CHOICE of fat quarters available from the quilt I have been working on 🙂

Anyone up for a little giveaway??  WHOOP!

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