My Latest QFS Quilt

And here is the yellow Quilts for Survivors star quilt that we just took off the quilt frames at the church.

It's based on Pat Sloan's Oh My Charming Stars pattern, with a few modifications. You will recognize it because it seems to be a frequent visitor to my TO DO list, sometimes as a quilt and other times as table runners. 

It's such an easy pattern and it always produces a lovely result. And I never seem to tire of making those stars.

It also proved to be a great excuse to try out my new Folded Corner Clipper ruler (say that fast three times!). Initially, I wasn't convinced that I had actually needed to buy it, but once I got into it I was very happy that I had. 

You simply place your large and small blocks right sides together, as usual, line up the block size that you want to cut - in this case 3.5" - and trim the corner; then you sew your seam. Easy, peasy.

And you still end up with a beautiful pile of HST made from the trimmings (sometimes I just eyeball my trimming with scissors so my seam allowances can vary a bit). It makes for very, very little trimming to get them squared up to use in another project.

My quilt is slightly larger than the pattern so I just laid squares out on the design wall and then played around with where I wanted my white stars to go.

I didn't know what I was going to do for borders so you can see with the top star that I opted not to run my stars into the first border, as suggested in the pattern, though I do like that look.

In the end, my first border became a narrow white and blue stripe and then I finished it off with a large yellow floral. Love that fabric. There are now only a few scraps of it left. The butterscotch check made for a nice backing....M