Oh My Stars

When I stumbled across a Pat Sloan runner pattern called Oh My Stars I knew that I'd be making one for the Holly Bazaar. The pattern is free and works up very quickly, so if you are keen to knock of a Christmas runner before St. Nick arrives this would be a great way to do it.

It's a variation on a quilt that she designed by the same name and it integrates one of my go-to star blocks with lots of scrappy goodness. Just love making these stars!

I needed three squares from the same fabric for the star centres and (pardon the pun) the star aligned. I found three, and only three in my box of remnants.

Most of the squares that I used came from that remnant box as well, so it didn't take much additional cutting.

Once everything was laid out assembly was a piece of cake.

I've seen this block sewn three or four in a row and it makes for a very nice runner, but I really love the way that these stars jut out into the border - so much more interesting. The borders called for straight runs of fabric in areas that weren't part of a star, but that was going to look a little odd given the text print that I was using so I opted to construct the borders from squares instead, which allowed me to mix up the orientation of each, and I like the look.

As it turns out, I couldn't bring myself to give this one away, so it's not yet quilted. But some day it will be, and it will be for me....M