When I first got into quilting, I pointed at a pattern and said, "this will be my very first bed-sized quilt!" And then I proceeded to make 4 other quilts, none of which remotely resembled that first pattern. Well the times are a changin' because I've started working on my first broken star quilt! I got some really nice batiks in my favorite colors and spent the weekend cutting, sewing, and avoiding ironing. Because of the color combinations I could make it an untraditional broken star:
Or very traditional:
I'm leaning toward the untraditional version with the bursting wheel in the traditional format. I really love how the dark blue emphasizes the multi-pink/purple in the center of the star and sends it shooting to the far reaches of the quilt. Still a lot more work to be done here and I definitely need to get a better cream color for the background. But that comes after I finish piecing the diamonds on the bias!
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