Here we go again. 😉 I went to Quilt Camp in the Pines in July, 2005, and took classes, as usual. One of them was Jan Krentz’s Hunter’s Star. I chose a slightly different layout than the one featured in the class, with the border that “finished” the stars at the edges of the main portion. The quilt was made from Jan’s strip piecing method. Her book and sample showed 8″ blocks, but I chose to make 4″ blocks and a 3″ border, so my project, finished in August, 2005, measures approximately 30″ x 38″. I laid this quilt out in Quilt Pro software.
I used oriental-style prints in indigos, blues and purples; some of the fabrics had been in my stash for years. <G> The quilt is machine pieced and machine quilted, using navy silk thread in the body of the quilt and a blue/purple variegated thread in the outer border. There is a corded piping between the outer border and the binding; it is in the same fabric as the inner border. Here is a detail where you may be able to see the quilting a bit better:
Update: In March, 2006, this quilt won third place in its category at our local quilt show! Here it is at the show with its white ribbon:
