Star Crazy was my One Monthly Goal for August; and it is disheartening that, for a second month, I couldn't get this project finished. I sewed on the next two rounds of borders, and you can see how badly rippled the outer white border is. I should have measured the quilt top before I added the last green border, but I took it on faith that my quilt dimensions matched the directions for cutting that border. Wrong! And I know better!! 
There was no way that was going to quilt out, so I rrrrripped them back off. Put it in the corner and haven't touched it since. I'll continue to work on it, but my One Monthly Goal for the month of September will be a refreshing change. It's a pattern called Heat Wave by Karen Stone, copyright 1995, so it's an oldie but goodie.
I hand dyed a gradation of colors plus the background for this quilt, a long, loooong time ago. I spent much of my time at camp this summer working on paper piecing the blocks, and I finally finished all of the component parts. I did run out of the hand dyed yellow right at the very end, found another piece of it, and will finish up the last couple blocks. Then it's time to put it all together.
Paper plates work very well to organize all the parts. I took a class with Michelle Renee Hiatt last summer at the Maine Quilts show, and that was a suggestion from her. It works great, and I've been organizing my sewing that way ever since. You can stack 'em up and keep everything separate. Sometimes I write cutting instructions right on the plate.
My One Monthly Goal for the month of September is to finish the top for the Heat Wave quilt. It's doable.You can see what others are doing this month here.
5 comments:
What a stunning block. Thanks for linking up with Elm Street Quilts One Monthly Goal and good luck with your project.
Your colour choice is fabulously effective. Sure glad I got to see it.
I thought that the picture of the block was the entire quilt ... but oh wow! There will be many like this one. It will be a stunner of a quilt. Can't wait to see more of it.
I use foam plates for the same task. I love that I can pin cut little pieces right on the plate, especially when working with 365 Challenge blocks. Enjoy! ;^)
Great to see your post as well as your beautiful projects!
Star Crazy - I finally completed this quilt show BOM in September and had it longarmed It will be a raffle quilt for Region 2 of the Quilters' Guild here in the UK. One of the border measurements in my pattern print out was 1/2" wrong so the struggle may not have been your fault. Yours turned out beautifully in the end.
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