Udela’s Star is a 2-color, 2-fabric quilt in a horizontal layout. The quilt measures 72 x 72 inches. This quilt is another design that is a simple one to print with only 2 fabrics and to machine piece with all straight lines. The Hunters Star Design Book has a simple sewing guide that you can print and place next to your machine when piecing.
This design uses the Inklingo 12″ Hunters Star Collection. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Stonehenge by Northcott.
There aren’t any women in my family tree whose name begins with the letter U. I picked Udela from a short list of female names. It is English in origin.
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(Download from website or print from collection) |
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For more information about Inklingo, click here. |
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Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of this collection so I couldn’t finish filling in the chart below but you can use the information from the collection to figure the sizes to cut and print. To figure fabric yardage, see the section “Planning a Quilt” in the Inklingo collection. |
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Fabric |
Yardage |
Shape |
# of Shapes |
Cut & Print |
Page # in shape collection |
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Fabric 1 Cream |
[There may be a Combo set for printing] | 144 HST 144 Trapezoid 288 Diamond |
12” Hunters Star: | ||||
Fabric 2 Dark Blue |
[There may be a Combo set for printing] | 144 HST 144 Trapezoid 288 Diamond |
12” Hunters Star: | ||||
Binding Strips | 8 strips | // | |||||
Want to check my math? The Udela’s Star Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. In the Hunters Star Design Book, Linda has included worksheets for 24 Hunters Star layouts as well as resources for finding more variations. |
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Additional Layouts |
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This is another scrappy project I have been printing shapes for. This project uses the Inklingo 3 inch Basket Collection. There are 360 basket blocks in my design. This is the third project I want to work on in 2015. (If you have been keeping track of my new starts. Hahaha) There is one more—the Ocean Waves quilt seen here. I have changed the color scheme on that one and am almost finished drawing the applique border. I’ll share details about it later.
The background shapes are printed on scraps approximately 8 x 12 or smaller. Printing Combo1 on an 8.25 x 11.75 piece of fabric gives me 6 sets of background shapes. On a smaller piece of fabric, I just print as many background sets as I can. I have about 250 background sets printed so far.
The basket shapes will be printed with my stash of Stonehenge and Marblehead fabrics. I have more than 60 different ones and I am always adding to them. If I print Combo6 on a 6 x 11.75 inch piece of fabric, I will have 6 sets of basket shapes to mix and match with my scrappy backgrounds. I am going to machine piece the blocks.
There is a basket combo set [Combo7] in the 3 inch Basket Collection that includes a back-basted heart applique. I am thinking of doing 20 or 40 blocks with the heart applique.
I brought a half dozen of these with me to work on. After setting off the smoke detector while pressing other blocks with the only iron I could find here, I decided not to work on anything that would need pressing during the sewing process. (Too scary!) That included my way of prepping the handle shape for appliqueing so I set the basket blocks aside until I get home. I’ll post a few of the finished blocks then.
It’s a misty, rainy, dreary day. A rarity in the desert southwest. (I am not looking forward to trekking through the mud to the chicken coop for eggs here shortly.) This is the kind of day that makes me feel like curling up with a good book by a fire. Unfortunately I’m not sure the fireplace here has ever been used. There’s no wood either. I decided instead to sew while listening to a good book. The only choice now is sewing by hand or machine? Machine, I think.
While members of the DA fight off the Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries, I am sewing with Aunt Flo and enjoying some hot tea. Still working on finishing up a few more long-standing projects before the end of the year. I’m hoping to get 2 more tops done before I leave here on Monday.