Thread: Someday I will learn to read the pattern! Maybe

I am working on a star block quilt. The instructions are not well done, there is no placement diagram, and the picture is of the quilt on a table and taken from an angle - you see the borders well, but the top - not so much. BUT even given that if I had REALLY looked hard I would NOT have made the stars scrappy. When I really look at it I see the stars are all the same print and the gingham borders around them are the same, too. Like --- a red star with a yellow sashing. But not mine. Nope - mine are scrappy, scrappy. Since I plan to keep this and use it as a table cloth on my kitchen table - no big deal, but SOMEDAY I will REALLY read the pattern. Maybe.

The first pick is my biggest excuse - I'm currently working on a different star block project which IS scrappy.

Originally Posted by Handcraftsbyjen

I like it!

he he...you aren't alone...I am not a very patient person I usually just read enough to get me going.....I love your star and I really like the colors if the second pic.

Since it's what I THOUGHT it was supposed to be I'm okay with it. I'm NOT going to even think about whether I would have preferred it the other way. But ... I keep doing this... read enough to get started - maybe even glance all the way through then ... Hannah, bar the door - I'm on my way. Full speed ahead. Then too often ... whoops - there it is! Something that's not quite how I thought it was and I have to spend time adjusting what I thought was there to what's really there. Sigh. Someday, someday, someday!

I'm not usually a fan of gingham but I like this, I like it a lot! Maybe it's because you made it scrappy!

okay, okay ... I am by nature and rearing a follower of rules. Quilting has brought out both an ADD and an OCD that I wasn't aware I had. Here's what I'm going to do ... the pattern calls for 30 blocks - 1 becomes an orphan, 4 are cornerstones and the other 25 make up the top. SO ... the 5 I've made scrappy - one will be the orphan, 4 will be the cornerstones (since it to be a table cover those will hang over the sides). I'll make the rest to match cause ... I really like it better. There! I said it - AND I don't have to rip.

The dark star blocks I'm making are made of 30 different fabrics. These little ones are just 10 fabrics. I think that's what bothered me the most - not enough scrappy to be truly scrappy. So the new ones will look like this:

I prefer your first pic...the scrappy one. The yellow star here gets kinda lost in the print...would be great with a smaller print...or solid red or blue instead of the apple print. I'm just a big fan of scrappy!

I like the scrappy blocks best. I think the dark stars stand out better.

Now that I see it, I do like it better although the scrappy was pretty too!