half of a lone star---into a quilt?
 

On a recent trip to local thrift store I bought a bag of fabric. Inside was a fully pieced HALF of a lone star! It measures over 48" from point to point. My question is this--has anyone ever appliqued a HALF of a lone star onto background fabric and made a quilt?

I have never seen one before. Can you post a picture of the fabric?? Maybe someone one on the board would have that fabric stored in their stash.

I think it would look pretty great to applique it to a piece of fabric with the straight edge of the star against the straight edge of the background and the star going out toward the middle, with maybe 1/3 of background showing. Hope this makes sense.

I guess maniac and I were posting at the same time ;)

How about a bed runner?

If you appliqué it with the points toward the top of the quilt, it would look like a sunrise. Just build the rest of the quilt around it. It could also be part of a modern quilt with lots of empty space in the quilt. Make a couple smaller half lone stars and distribute them randomly. Modern is a twist on an old standard; it would certainly be that.

There are such good ideas here. The creativity on this board helps all of us. A couple of other places the half could go is as a curtain valance, or on a mantle above a fireplace or a sofa table cover. I like the idea of the bed runner too. Modern sounds good. Could you post a picture for us to see the colors you will be working with?

Here is one I had saved on Pinterest. It is a tutorial for making one but you can see what half a lone star looks like

http://betteroffthread.com/2012/08/1...torial-part-1/

You could also applique 1/4 of the star into opposite corners of the background, with the points facing each other. I, too, would love to see a photo of what you have.

Auntpiggylpn posted a great idea. But I was wondering how this half Lonestar would look as a sun rise (possibly out of an art type quilt) Question--would this have been an 8 point or a 6 point Lonestar?

You could make it into a half circle quilt with the star points pointing up.
Mounted to a piece of foam insulation board it could hang over a sofa or a bed for a modern piece of art.

Can't wait to see what you finally do!

Jan in VA

The sunrise look is a great idea. I was thinking of taking two quarters of the lone star, having the two center parts of the lone star pointing toward each other, so that the lone star points point to the top of the quilt and the bottom of the quilt. This would make a quilt longer than it is wide, unless you do something to make it more square. Alternatively you could have two quilts with one quarter of the lone star in the center.

Thanks for all the input. The lone star is made of colored Christmas prints. I have no sofa table or fireplace so was thinking of bed size quilt. I do like the idea of splitting the star. Thanks for the link to 'better off thread' this looks like the way I might go.

I think you could make a beautiful quilt with half of a lone-star!

I would probably applique it, rather than try to piece it to a larger quilt.

I too had printed off the link that auntPiggyLpn had provided some time ago for the Lone Star that I was interested in making. I think that would be an incredible use of your find! Can you show us a pic of what you got?

I thought depending on how many points you have you can diassemble them and space them out having either the background fabric or replace with solid coordinated pieces. Does that make sense?

I have seen seen one half of a Lone Star on a solid gray background in a modern quilt book/show.