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I'm making a wedding quilt for my DGS and his new bride. They picked this quilt pattern but want their quilt to be lighter in color so I'm making the quilt with lighter batiks in the middle and the darker batiks on the outer points of the stars. The next layers will be lighter triangles and squares. After that, I'll do the dark points and outer border to square it all up just like the picture shows. The pattern is An Unusual Lone Star by Karen Stone and will be 62" x 62".

So that's the problem. I need to add to the pattern to make a quilt large enough for a queen bed. Do any of you have any suggestions about how you might do that?

I have all the 128 blocks done for the lone star and have lined things up on the kitchen floor. The second picture is how the lone star will look.

Thanks for looking. Thanks for your suggestions.

Your color combination is lovely -

That's going to be beautiful. I would enlarge it with borders. I've seen so many very pretty quilts that have numerous borders around them which accent the center block. I don't know if there is a certain name for that (quilts with lots of borders) but they make striking quilts).

Medallion quilts. If you search "medallion quilts" on Pinterest or Google images, you will get a lot of great ideas for adding multiple borders.

Lovely quilt! Lucky couple!

Your quilt is going to be amazing! Love the color selections!

I looked up "lone star quilt" images in google to see how different people finished theirs. There were a number of different suggestions but I really liked the simplicity of taking your square lone star, turning it on point and adding rows of borders as seen in Annie's Quilt link here: https://www.anniesquiltingden.com/lone-star.

How to change a square into a rectangle is always a challenge. I agree to look at Medallion quilts or even just "lone star quilt settings".

One of the techniques I've used is for bands of three top and bottom, and then just the center on the sides, if that makes sense. Because of the layout of the lone star, often three smaller stars are put in the middle/in bars to lengthen.

It is going to be lovely.
I made one of those quilts years ago- it took me years to quilt it- after piecing it. I’ve told myself I will make another one some day- someday hasn’t happened- yours inspires me though. 🤗

That's going to be lovely! you could always add extra layers of diamonds to make the star larger. I try to avoid adding borders just for the sake of sizing. it should be more of a design choice. perhaps you could make smaller stars to put as cornerstones for an outer "border" where the actual border fabric is the same as the background fabric, so it flows in together well. Can't wait to see it when you are done!

You could make the star larger by adding more light colored diamonds to the centre.
Or the following link shows another way.

http://www.durhamorangequilters.org/raffle-quilt/

I made a rectangular quilt with a central focus that was wider than tall. I added borders, adding an inch to top and bottom pieces. ie: 3 inches wide on top and bottom pieces and 2 inches wide for left and right sides. In first pic, you can see that I added a final piece on top and bottom only.

That is going to be so beautiful. Maybe if you had some borders and make the lone star the center focus. I also like some of the ideas that you are getting from other members here.

Thank you, everyone for such great suggestions. I'm going to take pen to paper this morning and do some sketches so I can figure this out. I bought fabric for the star but decided to wait to buy fabric for the borders and whatever else I'll need for the top. I'm going to have to make up my mind about this in the next week because I'm in the UP where quilt shops are few and far apart. I'll be taking a trip back downstate where lots of quilts shops give me tons of choices on the batiks to use. Not everyone has a great selection of batiks.

So, keep giving me ideas and I'll follow up with my sketches when I figure some things out.

This is going to be beautiful! I would add borders as well.

That is going to be one spectacular quilt. Don't forget to post the finished product.

How about making a couple more lone star blocks and put them down the middle then add borgers?

I almost spit my drink out, I thought this said "then add boogers". https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/hunf.png

Sigh. I'm the only woman in a house full of men and it shows. 🤣

Oh, I don't want boogers all around the quilt.

I've been cutting, pasteing and sketching. Which idea do you like the best? I'd love your opinions.

Picture 1- half stars... they don't fit perfectly nor do I think I could make them fit right.

Picture 2- spear points... should I turn them the other way, put them all the way across the 15" border? Ideas, please.

Picture 3- twisted ribbons... Is this too plain for the busy center?

I like the middle one. It brings in more components of the star.

It is beautiful. I would go with the extra borders. Make sure and ask Them some questions: do they use a dust ruffle and if so, how far from the top of the mattress top to the top of the dust ruffle, then add several inches oneach side. If no dust ruffle, how tall from the floor to the top of the mattress top. Queen size can vary so depending on the thickness of the mattress. Good luck. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

Just saw your samples. I like the half star outer border best but the inner half star borderS, To make it rectangular, takes away from the center star IMHO.

Okay. Thank you all for those thoughts. I sent the pictures to the bride and groom and they don't like the half star border at all (design #1). They think that's too busy. Since those really don't fit right at the corners and there's just no way to 'make them fit', that's probably a good thing. They like the spear points or the ribbons. I decided to draw in some quilting ideas to the ribbons design and this is what I've come up with so far.

Yes, I know that I will have to lay the star out on the bed and see where these added elements fall. And, finding out about a dust ruffle, etc., would be good, too.

I might throw out all 3 designs and start fresh. Who knows? This designing stuff is hard.