The key to the lonestar, in my humble and humiliated opinion, is to make sure you measure 100 times before cutting, and make sure very very very sure that if you're using the stripped piecing method that you cut the angles accurately. I didn't and ended up with a mess.
Search the boards for "lone star gone wrong" and you can follow my headache.
Of interest (at least to me) is that I set this aside AGAIN for weeks/months, and am just now working on some applique roses on it RIGHT NOW. Getting sick of looking at it sitting around over the quilt frame.
Poor little girl is going to be 21 before she ever gets this (she just turned 8).
-- Jillaine