Best Lone Star directions?

Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very quickly!!!
just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing
touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt or
just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

So, did you do the printing on the interfacing or did you buy it
pre-printed? One day I'm gonna make me one of these (I've done the
indi-diamond thing) and naturally I am curious.....

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)

"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very
quickly!!!
just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing
touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt
or
just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

Trying to remember who wrote the book "Lone Star Quilts and Beyond"
(???) It has good instructions and I remember someone on here mentioning
it. I am working on a similar quilt, but 6 pointed stars, and they are
not that large.... strip pieced and such. But you are supposed to make
9 of them, plus some parts for around.......... Not sure I will ever
finish all of it and may change it. BG Especially since I started it
a few years ago. I want to get it finished.

I have seen several versions that are strip pieced. It isn't difficult
to do. Just be careful of the bias cuts. Starch can be your friend if
you start out with starched fabric. The most difficult of the one I am
doing is that the instructions called for pressing seams open........
and pressing that many quarter inch seams open is a pain.... literally.


Have fun.

Pati, in Phx

Johanna Gibson wrote:

Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

I got a pattern called Lone Star Basics from
www.claudiasquiltshoppe.com
It has 5 amd 6 row layouts. It has 6or 8 different sizes
that you can make your quilt in the directions. Hope
this will help.
dreamboat
"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

Kelli, that is really pretty--love your colors!! One day I will get brave
and try something like that!

--
Donna in NE La.
"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very
quickly!!! just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in
finishing touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt
or just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

twas pre printed ... went very quickly as long as i paid attn to which color
went next

--
-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm
"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
u...
So, did you do the printing on the interfacing or did you buy it
pre-printed? One day I'm gonna make me one of these (I've done the
indi-diamond thing) and naturally I am curious.....

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)

"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very
quickly!!!
just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing
touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt
or
just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

oh... and it had instructions to make the setting squares a way i didn't
like (with a seam in the middle) so i did that part the "old fashioned"
way.

--
-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Sharon Harper" wrote in message
u...
So, did you do the printing on the interfacing or did you buy it
pre-printed? One day I'm gonna make me one of these (I've done the
indi-diamond thing) and naturally I am curious.....

--
Sharon from Melbourne Australia (Queen of Down Under)
http://www.geocities.com/shazrules/craft.html (takes a while to load)
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/shazrules/my_photos (same as website but
quicker)

"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very
quickly!!!
just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing
touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt
or
just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

thank you!~ the only reason i did it was i was talked into taking a class.
And the pattern went very easily once you figured out the rythm .

would like someday to do another, bigger one. But for now i need to
complete this top and work on all the other WIPs and UFOs that are piling
up!!!

--
-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Donna" wrote in message
...
Kelli, that is really pretty--love your colors!! One day I will get brave
and try something like that!

--
Donna in NE La.
"Kellie J. Berger" wrote in message
m...
http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very
quickly!!! just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in
finishing touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all)
everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your
strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row...
http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg
here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole
square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt
or just hang on the wall.

-- Kellie
kjbeanne at yahoo dot com
www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm

"Johanna Gibson" wrote in message
...
Hello,
My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a
Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose
directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of
hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on
top of the bed, not hang over the sides.
Any suggestions or advice?



-- Jo in Scotland

In article . net,
Pati Cook wrote:

Trying to remember who wrote the book "Lone Star Quilts and Beyond"
(???) It has good instructions and I remember someone on here mentioning
it.

Pati, that would be Jan Krentz's book. Her instructions for strip
piecing this kind of quilt are excellent! I've made two Lone Star
quilts, and the one I did with her instructions was much easier than the
first one. Both of them are pictured he
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1/lonestarquilts.html; it's the
second one down that came from Jan's book. HTH
--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education