November Block Lotto

This month we have a star.  I know there have been many stars before, but this is a new one, and with no measuring it is fast, easy, and visually effective.  Sounds good, right?

Rising Star, Improvised

Terri Torke did a lovely symmetrical version of the rising star here, but this one is not symmetrical; for visual interest, and “more fun, less measuring and stressing about perfect”.

Fabrics you will need:

-four 6.5″ square pieces of Kona silver fabric, also Painter’s Palette pale silver. ( You can pick up a fat quarter of the Kona at the guild meeting for cheap).  If you can find another light grey/silver solid that matches, that’s ok too.

-4 strips of yellow print fabric, approx. 2.5″ x 7″

-4 strips of purple print fabric, approx. 3″ x 7″

Please try to use prints that only have the desired colour, in variation( tone on tone), or a bit of black or white.

Now do the same with the purple strip

Isn’t that easy? and looks pretty sharp too!
Now do the other 3 block, paying attention to which way you add your colours, so that they all match up the same. ( I failed on 1 of mine and had to start all over again. oops!)

Four 6.5″ blocks

Great.  Now put them all together, and you have a pretty cool star, with lovely sharp points.  Trim to 12.5″ square.

I fell in love with this block, and started playing with colour variations, which is leaning towards another quilt started. Crap, I don’t need more starts.  Ah, well. Have fun with this one.

Due to the December social, this block is due at the January meeting.

The Missouri quilt company has a free tutorial here for a traditional Rising Star block.  Good for getting the concept, but don’t follow it exactly as we want these blocks to be ” imperfect”.

Have fun.

As always, one block = one ticket.  So make one, make two, make a whole bunch!