This is for child #3, my older son, who loves all shades green.

Beautiful quilt Kara. I love it! Was there a stripe fabric in the border or did you just make a bunch of borders? Thank you for sharing with us!!!

Beautiful job!

Thats lovely :D

Great quilt - love the colors. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

Ohhhhh thats really pretty....uh, handsome. I like it!

I love your quilt.

Wow.. the quilt is beautiful. Thank you for sharing and the inspiration!!!

Good job Kara, i really like that

What a cool quilt. I LOVE IT

I really like that!!! Very pretty!!!

Wow! You're very good!

I like this. Alot!

This is gorgeous!

Wow, I don't even like green but this is one GORGEOUS quilt!! Awesome job! You made green look wonderful!!! :thumbup:

I love this. I love green also!!

Kyia

Wow, ive never seen this star with a chain, it looks soooo nice, beautiful quilt! :)

Sure is purtiy!!

So simple but so effective. I love it.

Wow that is a beautiful.

Thank you to all who commented. Some answers to some questions:

The borders are 5 strips put together cut on the straight of grain with mitered corners (which I LOVE).

The pattern is an original design. I've been obsessed with the whole chain effect lately and am working on a log cabin design with similar effect for my younger son.

Beautiful quilt! I love your color combo!

ooooh I like! That shade of green is very lush

Very very pretty. Love the color.

As soon as the picture came up I said... "oooohhhhhhhhhhhh I like it." Love the colors love the design.

i like green too. When can I expect mine? :lol: :lol: :thumbup:

what a pretty quilt...:)

Beautiful...Love the friendship star.....and the colors.

I love the quilt. You did a great job. The colors look so calming, could be a good thing for a son I'm guessing.

I noticed you just joined the group.... welcome from Illinois.

What a beauty! Lucky son who gets this quilt. It's "manly" and VERY attractive. Good job!!

I've made the star. Very clever how you mixed in the chain. Really like it alot and the colors are great! Lucky son #3!

Very pretty combo. Great job, post pics when you get the next one done, love your chain pattern

Welcome to this wonderful site. Your quilt is very pretty. I love greens.

I like it very nice.

That is really lovely! I have a pile of friendship blocks, but wanted to do something more with them because the corners are so plain... I guess it would take re-making the entire thing to add the nine-patch center and the corner blocks, oh never mind. I will just enjoy looking at yours. what size are your blocks? Is this a published pattern?

oh, I just looked through the previous messages and saw that this is an original design. I love mitered borders, too, and nothing thrills me more than finding a pattern that creates a secondary design when you place the blocks together. What other chain effect blocks are you trying?

What you could do is use colored "cornerstones" and put triangle on the ends of your sashing so that when sashing and cornerstones come together they for another Friendship star. This way, they won't be lined up in tidy little rows. They'd be a little different. You could even use skinny sashing, so the stars around the corner stones would be smaller than your blocks. Just a thought....

It's beautiful! I love the colors!

Thanks for your ideas! Turning sashing into another star... time to get busy!