Morning star FQ quilt

Have any of you tried the morning star die from Accuquilt?

So this is basically it in EQ, I then found out the yardage

Then added random colors and there’s an option to see FQs instead of yardage in EQ

I had an old FQ bundle from Connecting threads and figured I’d use it and split it up into light and dark

I don’t remember how many now, but I think it was 24- 12 light and 12 dark, it might have been less, I tried to just maximize the cutting on the die and figure it out as I went.

AHA! as I see this picture from June I see my little notebook and found it and I wrote down 8:1 ratio that I needed 40 dark and light triangles, then the triangles I needed 320 of light and dark

I was able to get 24 triangle and 8 corner triangles from each FQ so that equalled 18 FQs!

(good thing for notes!!)

 

I got a system going after a while, that after I folded the FQ and cut out all the triangles, the leftover piece I moved over to the side triangle spot then added a new FQ for the main triangles, this way I cut them all quickly!

Here’s all of them cut

sewing them together was fun, I tried to NOT do the same sets as much as possible.

then added more pieces

and soon I had 20 of these, so depending on if I used dark or light corner triangles, I just turned the block so the light would touch dark triangles or visa versa

10 of each!

and planned the layout on the design wall- notice I did the same corners for each block, so two blocks had the same corners since I cut out 8 of each color.

The blocks are 12″ finished so the top ended up 48″ x 60″

Then it sat in the closet for a while until I ordered fabric for the backing but then I didn’t think about binding either and waited for the right fabric to come along too.

I quilted a design in QCT5 called popcorn or popcorn flowers in light pink thread

and the binding is solid pink

I have it listed on Etsy here