Prairie Star Quilt and Pillow for Accuquilt and Advent Calendar Dec 8th

Did you see the newest Prairie star die Accuquilt released?

I designed a quilt pattern for them too and used solids from Connecting Threads.

(Sorry my bee got added, these are Accuquilt’s photos)

The die made it so easy to put together and I had fun making this swirly design! It’s the same block, just turned 90 degrees on the quilt.

Here’s my pictures- first the pile of solids from Connecting threads

Then I cut out all the pieces and layered the shapes in piles of 4 in this star flower shape and with an ombre effect

Then I kept adding pieces following the same color order

Then once the “wedges” were done I added the background pieces, it IS Y seams, but not hard, I’d grab a white piece and a “wedge” and only sew one seam, then press and lay it out again then add more seams, it was kind of like a puzzle I guess.

here’s the top all done

I think the quilting design is called Hot Cocoa

The pattern for this quilt is called “Aloha stars” and it’s on Accuquilt’s website

I got to play MORE with the die and also made this pillow for Accuquilt, called Cascading Star, here the fabrics got provided by Riley Blake!

For the star I made it more of the “traditional” way of making the star with 3 colors and they are all the same and then a small border and 2 1/2″ squares to make the pillow 20″, I quilted a basic wavy design allover it.

Again get the die here and check out the patterns to go with it.

Here’s a clue for Dec 8th

“It’s the name for those Asian/Japanese little lunch boxes”

It’s a baby quilt pattern

Go to the quilt pattern page

and you can then “search” for the clues