So among the mess atop my sewing table was this bundle of 9 1/2" Friendship Star blocks, which I had apparently won from the Orange Grove Quilter Guild... at least six years ago.
Seventeen blocks doth not a quilt make. And even after I made three more red stars, I was still going to have one extra blue. Oh well, put it in the corner, no one will ever notice that the last diagonal stripe is blue not red.
Ramen has taken to his role as the household's new quilt inspector quite well.
I had a nearly-a-yard remnant of red from Joann's Fabrics that I had intended for some other purpose, now forgotten. It made the sashing. Plus I'd picked up a couple yards of red and blue stars on white print from St. Vincent De Paul for a mere $.65, which was probably the impetus for finally working on these blocks. That fabric became cornerstones and, eventually, the outermost border.
I dug through my blues to find one which looked good for the middle border. You can't really see it, but unlike the red, it is hella pieced. Very weirdly shaped scrap! But it's mostly used up now.
And finally I did math to figure out how wide to make the outer border to use up as much of that stars fabric as I could. It looks kind of dingy in this shot; it's better in person. The final measurement is 69 1/2" x 59 1/2". It's currently folded and hung up in the closet, waiting its turn to be quilted.
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