I went to my quilting club last month and one of the gals gave a demo of an easy way to make a Lone Star. I had never made one, but it did look easy! So....I went home and picked some colors from my stash, cut my strips and followed all the directions on the handout. Low and behold, out comes this Lone Star! Very bright, too! I need to quilt it, but I can't decide how or what color thread I should use! I need some suggestions. Here's the culprit:

Beautiful!!

Beautiful star! Black thread?

Thought about black, but I'm also wondering whether I should just do SID or try to do a design. Black would really show up, so I wouldn't want to do SID with black. I got lazy and just appliqued the star to the background and used a light green for that. I'm considering using it for the SID.

Varigated on the star and black on the background?
They also have a varigated with blacks and greys :D:D:D

green would work for SID. Then just do straight lines in black on the black, if you're not comfortable with stippling or the like, which I am not. I do straight lines, or something easy.

Very Beautiful!

WOW that is gorgeous!!

I'm a rebel..I would use a yellow..

This is beautiful. I am getting ready to start one in black, grays and white. I hope mine turns out as good as yours.

So beautiful!!

Good job!

If I were hand quilting it, for sure I would stick with black. If machine quilting, go with an ALMOST black... deep, deep grey so you can slightly see it. Variegated green or the same dark grey for the star would work. If it were mine, I would do more than SID.

I agree. Variegated on the star would look pretty.

Black! Love the quilt. Been wanting to start one of those myself.

Gorgeous!

I'm no expert, but I remember someone doing straight lines from a star to the edge of the top and it looked like "rays" from the star. Maybe use a shiny black thread, like embroidery thread, and just continue the "stitch in the ditch" but from the edge of the star, change to black. That way, when people look at it from the back, the lines would start in the center and radiate out to the edge. Just my two cents worth!

Please post a picture when you have it quilted, would love to see what you decided - I'm sure, no matter what you decide, it will be beautiful.

Good idea on appliqueing the star to the background!

Is there an easy way?! If so I want to know, pleeeeeseeee!!

Beautiful job!!. I would use a dark grey thread rather than black, but you have to be comfortable with the colour choice. And I agree with some of the other opinions , that more than stitch in the ditch would look great and set the star off, front and back.

Pretty! I'd use black thread~

Beautiful!

Wow, that is beautiful. I would stipple the corners and SID the lonestar.

The directions I used were from an older book (I ordered it on Amazon) called CUT-NO-DIAMONDS! I ordered the book used and a few notes were made in it and the cut off edges of the lady's fabric choices were pinned to one of the pages! Thought that was sort of neat. Basically, you sew strip together, cut one end at a 45* angle then sew the strips together into tubes. These are cut into mini-tubes that you sew together to make the diamonds. It really went together pretty fast.

I would use black on the black and a pale yellow on the rest. The quilt is gorgeous! :D :thumbup:

Beautiful

if you're hand quilting then all black and sid. be sure to use black on the back side as well on the front. if you're machine quilting, then on the star i would use the same color on the backing as the front for no show-through. everything shows up on black. i would use a neutral there.

Me too!
This is lovely!!

Wow what a gem you have there,well done.

Wow, I need that instruction sheet.

Would you be willing to share the new technique you used? I found one somewhere on line and I lost it. I would really appreciate it.

If you would like to try this, check Amazon for the book listed in my last post about halfway up this page. Because of copyright laws, I can't just give you explicit directions. It's a paperback and pretty cheap. I just bought a used one. I started this with the scant directions the gal gave that was doing the demonstration, but I was sure glad I ordered the book as I got further along.

Today I was looking at the new Star Quilts book I had purchased and it gives the directions for the way you were talking about.