Lucky Stars QA (Quilt Story) Quilt Top Complete

Here's my Lucky Stars QA quilt top.  I'll need to research civil war quilt backs next.  I'm not sure what I will do for the backing fabric(s).  This is my first MODA quilt.  These fabrics were bought by a friend of mine who loves garage sale deals.  She bought them for me and didn't even know what a jelly roll was.  The jelly roll was called Civil War Crossings.  There were also a few coordinating fat quarters.  Perfect for the fabric requirements for this quilt.  I paired it up with the blue print Village Green Thimbleberries fabric that I bought a while back when a local quilt shop went out of business.  I think it turned out nice and dark.  I'm almost positive that I will straight line quilt it.  We'll see how straight it is once I load it onto the longarm.  This was my first QA at Quilt Story.

 

Check it out!!!  http://quiltstory.blogspot.com/2013/06/lucky-stars-qal-join-us.html

 

 

 

With this quilt top complete there's nothing holding me back from starting another.  I am joining in with Melissa at Happy Quilting.  I'm doing this the Star Surround QA just a little lazy differently than the rest of the group.  I used my Accuquilt GO! Baby dies and let them do all the cutting for me.  I'm going with a 3 x 3 layout.  The squares should be 3" finished making it about 72" x 72" without borders.  With this method not only will my cutting be nice and accurate, there will be little/no trimming and NO LINE DRAWING for the HST!  Whohoo!  I went with just a background and a print.  Here's a few HST and my big pile to put together.  Can't wait to just chain piece!  LOVE chain piecing!!!

 

Check out what everybody else did this week at:

http://happyquiltingmelissa.blogspot.com/2013/07/star-surround-quilt-long-half-square.html

 

For the record, this quilt was made by using Accuquilt dies 55006 Square 3.5", and 55009 Half Square - 3" Fin. Triangle.

 

HST Print 324

HST Solid 324

Square Print 144

Square Solid 108

 

Because I am using 3" squares for the center of the block I decided not to make the four center pieces with HST.  Had I gone scrappy with the stars instead of two colors it would have been:

 

HST Print 396

HST Solid 324

Square Print 108

Square Solid 108

 

I think I started out with about 3 3/4 yard of print, but I'm not sure on that.  I only have a 3.5" piece left!  Whew... that was close!