Stars in Their Eyes

He's been working at the school for about a decade; she's been with us a shorter time. A couple of years back, they discovered each other and watching their relationship grow was fun.

In September, she returned to school wearing a ring. Both of them were radiant. With stars in their eyes.

It turned out that the date they have chosen for their wedding is Joe's and my forty-fifth anniversary. This calls for a quilt.

I had the feeling that they might like William Morris and I was right. So I ordered the FQ pack of Morris and Company. By gum, it is gorgeous stuff. Okay, so I'd gotten that far along. But what quilt to make stymied me. For a long time. And then dear Thelma posted a picture of a quilt she was going to make (and has since completed!) and I knew that was the one for Brian and Erin. I studied the directions for "Starry Eyed" on the Moda Bake Shop site and decided that I didn't want my star points to be wonky, so I drafted a pattern for how to make them non-wonky.

One evening this week I cut the ten centers for the star blocks, and yesterday cut and matched up the points pieces and began putting them together. I'm loving it. I'm hoping to finish the main part of the star blocks this afternoon and begin getting the outer part on them. But I've got a whole lot of cuttin' to do -- Am going to need about a bazillion 2-1/2" squares!

Elijah Boo, This One's For You

Weeks ago, I unearthed a collection of 6" HSTs in CW colors. I had no idea what I had planned to do with them at the time that I made them. I waited a little while and when no remembrance came, I started putting them together and liked what I was seeing.

My youngest grandson takes a nap at "school" during the afternoon, and I asked my dear DIL if he needed a quilt for those naps. With her affirmative response, I added a couple of carefully chosen borders and took the quilt off to Mary Ellen to machine for me.

It came home on Wednesday and the next night I made and machined on the binding. The past two nights while watching "West Wing" on Netflix, I got the hand-stitching finished. 

This is a photo of the back; if you click to make it larger, you can see the beautiful leaves motif that Mary Ellen quilted. I don't think Eli will care. But I do.