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Stella’s Star

Published 11 December 2014

Stella’s Star is a 4-color, 5-fabric quilt in an on-point setting. It measures approximately 70 x 70 inches. This quilt uses two different 10 inch blocks. When they are set on point it is hard to tell where one block ends and the other begins. I like that it has almost a plaid look to it.

This design uses the Inklingo Half Square Triangle [HST] 00B and Inklingo Quarter Square Triangle [QST] 00B Collections. I colored the blocks in EQ7 with fabrics from Toscana by Northcott.

Stella F Williamson is my great aunt. She was born in July 1872 in Rochester, New York. I don’t know much about her other than she is the oldest child of Georgianna (DeLong) Williamson, was married twice and had a least one child. I like the name Stella so that is why I chose to feature her.

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Stella’s Star 70 x 70 inches
9020-10 Toscana White Picket Fence			9020-51 Toscana Buttercup		9020-40 Toscana Morning Mist
9020-444 Toscana Got the Blues				9020-720 Toscana Granny Smith

Purchase and download:
Inklingo HST 00B Collection [You can also use the 6” Storm at Sea Collection to print both the 2” Squares and 2” HST]		Inklingo QST 00B Collection		The Inklingo Handbook		Cheat Sheet (Download from website or print from collection)
For more information about Inklingo, click here.

Copy the information below to a printed Cheat Sheet. I don’t have a copy of the Quarter Square Triangle 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[s].
Fabric	Yardage		Shape	# of Shapes	Cut & Print		Page # in shape collection
Fabric 1 White			2” Square	180	2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection		6″ Storm at Sea:
			2″ Half Square Triangles		12] 6.25 x 12″ & 1] 6.25 x 12″ Cut and pair with Light Blue fabric and sew for 200 HST units – No need to print.		HST 00B: 42 & 43
			2″ Quarter Square Triangle	40			QST 00B:
Fabric 2 Yellow			2″ Square	116	2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection		6″ Storm at Sea:
			2″ Quarter Square Triangle	20			QST 00B:
Fabric 3 Light Blue			2” Square	125	2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection.		6″ Storm at Sea:
			2″ Half Square Triangle	200	12] 6.25 x 12″ & 1] 6.25 x 6.5″ Print and pair with White fabric for 200 HST units.		HST 00B: 42 & 43
			2″ Half Square Triangle	400	25] 6.25 x 12″ Print and pair with Medium Blue fabric for 400 HST units.		HST 00B: 42 & 43
Fabric 4 Medium Blue			2″ Half Square Triangle	400	25] 6.25 x 12″ Cut and pair with Light Blue fabric and sew for 400 HST – No need to print.		HST 00B: 42 & 43
			Binding Strips	8 strips
Fabric 5 Green			2″ Square	180	2.5″ squares cut from 2.5″ strips OR Print and cut using the 6″ Storm at Sea Collection.		6″ Storm at Sea:
			2″ Quarter Square Triangle	40			QST 00B:
Want to check my math? The Stella’s Star Math PDF is here. Quilt blocks are pictured on the Math PDF. Linda’s Triangle Tips PDF You can also use the information above to make this quilt using the Easy Angle and Companion Angle Rulers. Check the Store tab in my blog header under Rulers for both rulers.

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Streak of Lightning Finishes

Published 10 December 2014

The two quilts I am featuring in this post are based on an antique quilt I found in this quilt book years ago.

This is the Electric Quilt layout based on the antique quilt. You may have seen other quilting bloggers making this same quilt.

A photo of the finished quilt top that I took with my phone shortly after I finished the quilt at the end of October. (Excuse the quality of the photo. The design wall was cluttered up with quilting projects that didn’t belong to me. I didn’t want to remove them so my photo is less than stellar. Plus the quilt top wasn’t ironed yet.) The Half Square Triangle [HST] units are 3 inches square. I printed the light fabric using the Inklingo Half Square Triangle Collection, paired it with a plaid fabric, sewed on the dotted lines, and cut on the solid lines. Perfect HST units with no papers to remove and no squaring up of the units.

Linda’s video explaining the process.

I made a smaller version using this pink fabric with floral scraps to make the HST units. Featured in the photo is my former quilting buddy lying down on the job.

The floral streak of lightning version uses 2.5 inch Half Square Triangle units. Some of my floral scraps were too small to layer with the printed 2.5 inch HSTs. I used the Easy Angle Ruler to cut Half Square Triangles from the smaller floral scraps and paired them with the Half Square Triangles printed with Inklingo and chain pieced them.

They went together beautifully.

Another less than stellar photo of my unironed floral streak of lightning quilt top hung on the same design wall in October. In the last 2 months, I have finished 4 quilt tops that have been languishing for years. One more to go to meet my goal of 5 finished tops before year end.

The easiest way to make Half Square Triangle Units!

Inklingo Half Square Triangle 00B Collection

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A Scrappy Log Cabin

Published 6 December 2014

A scrappy log cabin has been on my Quilting To Do List forever. I love log cabin quilts. Especially those in a barn raising layout. My first attempt to sew a quilt was with an Eleanor Burns “Quilt-in-a-Day – Log Cabin” book.

It didn’t go so well but I was not deterred. Fast forward a number of years and I am machine quilting this scrappy log cabin for a quilter friend.

Oh, my scrappy goodness!

I wanted to keep it for myself!

Just recently I have begun using the Inklingo .75 inch Log Cabin Collection to print scraps of log cabin strips for a quilt project I plan to start in the new year. The quilt blocks are going to have an extra .75 inch red square running through the middle separating the light and dark fabrics similar to the EQ7 block below.

With the extra squares, the log cabin blocks finish at 8.25 inches. I am planning a 12 x 12 block layout [144 blocks total] in a barn raising pattern. That means I need to print 144 light strip sets, 144 dark strip sets and 1584 small red squares. There is a Combo printing option in the log cabin collection I am using that allows me to print a complete set of strips on a 6.75 x 10 inch piece of fabric.

This is a non-scrappy rendition of my planned quilt layout in EQ7.

As long as I color every strip in the block with a different color or fabric in Electric Quilt, I can use the Fabric Yardage Chart to tell me the number of shapes I need. This is how I figured out how many small red squares I need to print. (The yellow fabric in the chart above.) You can find the Fabric Yardage Chart in EQ7 under File > Print > Fabric Yardage.

My stash is woefully lacking in lights and neutrals and I didn’t have enough different fabrics to print 144 sets of log cabin strips. During Thanksgiving week I was house sitting for another quilter friend who lets me comb through her scraps and use whatever I want. She has her scraps sorted by color in a dozen or more baskets. You can see 2 of the baskets in the top righthand corner of the photo above. Thanks to her generosity, I was able to add enough fabric to my light and dark scraps to print out all the strips I need to finish my quilt. Note the plastic bag with stacks of log cabin strips already printed and cut. I am almost done with the printing. There are a little over 50 dark fabrics left to print and cut. I need to find the perfect red fabric for my small squares and then I am ready to start sewing my scrappy log cabin in 2015!