New Lone Star

I made a lone star quilt ages ago in a workshop with Irene Carrig. Mine was in blue, yellow, red, with applique in the corners. A few weeks ago I ran a Big Star Day with Penny, and one of the quilts we did was a lone star. I got intrigued with this quilt all over again, but was thinking of using 8 fabrics instead of 6, and not attempted to blend them at all.

 I chose these 8 fabrics, at randon sort of, just that they looked good together, and there was light and dark.  All sliced up into strips of 2 1/2"

 You then have to sew 4 sets of strips, with 8 fabrics in each,   This is set 1

Set 2

 Set 3

Set 4

you then have to cut them up, 16 of each set, at 45degree angle.  this is the tricky part - keeping then straight.

I find they are more stable if turned face down.  Use the cutting board and ruler angle to get them right.

Here I have one piece layed out to sew

All sewn together, and pressed.  Pretty eh?

Half of the quilt is completed and I am really happy how it looks.  See, random is ok!!

Now, I have to decide what to put in the corners.  Do I do some excellent applique?  Or stunning hand quilting?  The squares will be about 23", so a lot of space to fill in.  First I have to work out what fabric to use, and I was kind of thinking of a toile, or a tone on tone, then I could do either the applique or quilting, depends on how I feel about it once completed.