Glowing Lone Star #2

Friday, July 5, 2019

I'm so excited to be able to share my second Glowing Lone Star quilt with you!


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

The first one was made with blues and greens and is available on Bluprint as a kit here. (UPDATE: Bluprint has closed. You can buy the pattern for the Glowing Lone Star quilt HERE.)


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

This quilt is exactly the same design, except it has completely different fabric colors! I absolutely love seeing the same quilt made out of different fabrics!! This one is so striking in both the warm and cool colorways!



Boundless Collage fabrics by Bluprint

Strip piecing makes this quilt quick to put together.


Strip pieced lone star quilt
Strip pieced lone star quilt

This is one of those quilts that looks WAY more complicated than it is!


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint
Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

If you remember from my post about the first quilt, it was the primary reason I decided to buy a longarm!


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

When it came time to quilt this one, I knew exactly how I wanted to quilt it!


Aurifil thread for my Glowing Lone Star Quilt

I loaded the quilt on my longarm (a 1989 Gammill) with Warm & Natural batting and chose four coordinating 50wt Aurifil threads: #2783 Medium Delft Blue, #1154 Dusty Orange, #2455 Medium Carmine Red, and #1240 Very Dark Eggplant.


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

I used the Eggplant to quilt swirls in the background, and I used the Carmine Red to quilt figure eights in the sashing.


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

I used Dorie Hruska's One Start One Stop method to quilt the center star using the Blue and Orange threads.


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint


I really enjoyed quilting this one!


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

There were several months (and many quilts!) in-between the first and second Glowing Lone Star quilts, so I felt much more confident in my machine and my quilting abilities too.


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

Bluprint took some really great photos of the quilt!


Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint
Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint
Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

Kits are no longer available, but you can get the pattern HERE.



Glowing Lone Star quilt for Bluprint

Let me know if you make one! I'd love to cheer you on!!


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7 comments:

  1. The stars really do glow! Beautiful, both of them. Happy Stitching!!

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  2. Ooooh...so pretty. I love a lone star. The colours are so amazing. Well done.

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  3. Both of your star quilts are beautiful! I also love how you used your longarm frame to organize your strips... :-). Do you know whether this type of star is considered a Star of Bethlehem or a Lone Star, or are those names interchangeable? I've always been smitten by these giant star quilts, since I first saw them in quilting magazines when I was still struggling to sew two strips together straight. Would love to make one someday!

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  4. This version really glows! That purple background is amazing and your quilting looks great :)

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  5. Wow! That star positively glows! I think it is the gradual variation of the centre that does this!

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  6. Wow, that quilt really packs a punch! Love the quilting!

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