Hubby FINALLY finished the ductwork yesterday, and today he finished "redoing" the shelves (that are now significantly smaller), so tomorrow (hopefully, if I get home from work in time) I will move all my stash back onto those shelves.
While I waited for my shelves to return (somewhat) to normal, I was frogging the Lone Star, and planning the stitching I'll be doing on the Dresden Plate. But with the fixing-the-ducts chaos, I couldn't really QUILT (and I can only stand frogging for so long), so I started another quilt. Hopefully, it won't become a UFO.
I pulled out a pattern from my binders, and used it as inspiration.
The original pattern used yardage, no pre-cuts at all. And the main block is just a star - sometimes called "Morning Star", sometimes called "Evening Star". But since I'm using pre-cuts, and not going along with the original pattern... and it's a "traditional" block... I may be able to self-publish. I'll think about it. Anyway, I'm using two layer cakes (Civil War repro's) along with some cream tone-on-tone yardage. And using Eleanor Burns' no-waste method of making flying geese.
The blocks finish out at 12", so they stitch up pretty fast, but I'm pondering what I want to do between the squares - either some kind of alternate block or some kind of setting squares or sashing. This should use up the somewhat large chunks left over from the layer cakes. But the whole quilt needs to be something other than just the star blocks. Just the stars would be
boring!
But I think it will look very authentic to the era of the repro fabrics. And this should finish up into at least a flimsy very quickly, so it shouldn't become a UFO. So, now I don't have to find space for this fabric on my (smaller) shelves.
Stash usage!!