. . . seeing stars . . .

. . . it seems like this is turning into a quilt blog . . .

. . . what can i say? . . .

. . . i stay home a lot . . .

. . . anywhoooo . . .

. . . you know picasso? . . .

. . . his paintings are such a mess . . .

. . . which is how i feel about this quilt . . .

. . . whoa . . . 

. . . what in the world happened here? . . .

. . . hodgepodge city . . .

. . . let me back up a bit . . .

. . . in that class i took a couple of years ago . . .

. . . this was the third quilt we tackled . . .

. . . alex anderson's friendship star . . .

. . . first step . . .

. . . i chose a focus fabric . . .

. . . loved this sort of "boho" paisley . . .

. . . selected twelve prints to coordinate with it . . .

. . . purchased yardage recommended . . .

. . . went to town making the sixteen star blocks . . .

. . . and that's when things started going downhill . . .

. . . this quilt measures 34 1/2 inches x 36 1/2 inches as shown . . .

. . . i wanted it a little bigger . . .

. . . so instead of sixteen stars {four blocks x four blocks} . . .

. . . i made twenty-five {five x five} . . .

. . . plenty of fabric for that . . .

. . . then i wanted sashing and cornerstones between all the blocks . . .

. . . so far, so good . . .

. . . then a couple of extra pieced borders . . .

. . . still going strong . . . 

. . . my quilt ended up 55 1/2 inches square . . .

. . . about twenty inches larger than i bought fabric for . . . 

. . . which was all fine and well . . . 

. . . except i still needed a back for it . . . 

. . . which was originally supposed to be 

a nice smooth seamfree piece of paisley . . . 

. . . but it turned into requiring the use 

of every teeny scrap to make it large enough . . .

. . . which reminds me of pablo . . .

{it still needs to be quilted and bound - stay tuned}