Mary's quilt

Here's Mary's Maverick star quilt, complete! Thanks so much, to each and every one of you, for making such gorgeous blocks for this quilt. I gave the quilt to my friend for her birthday (only 11 days late!) and she loved it. She told me to thank all of you for your contributions, too!

You can read my complete blog post about it here, if you care to. :)

A Star for Amanda

In spite of all my whining about the asterisk block, it really was fun to do, and I'm having an absolute blast with this bee. For one thing, I've been able to keep up, so that's a plus for me. For another, it's making me try things I normally wouldn't or never have before. Thanks, Tara and Amanda -- I can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with!

This maverick star is another thing I've only seen and thought about trying, but never have. Now I know why . . . they're ADDICTIVE! I made this one for Amanda . . . and now I want to make an entire quilt full of them. Ack!

There will never be enough time for me to make all the quilts I want to make . . .

I don't make a very good maverick

August is my month for the Bee! I just mailed out my packages today. At 5 pm. Just before the P.O. closed!

With the blocks from my month, I hope to make a quilt for my friend and neighbor, Mary. She loves the color scheme in this quilt.

She loves the maverick star pattern, like in these quilts.

I'd like to combine the two into a quilt for her. Her birthday is in the beginning of October, so I hope to have it finished for her then.

What I would like each of you to make this month is a maverick star block. There is a tutorial here. Please make 12 1/2" blocks. (So when I sew them all together they will finish at 12".)

This is my block. I had a few (ahem) issues making it. I chopped a block too short (right side, middle block), so I added on a bit. Some of the fabrics aren't quite randomly placed, but I'm leaving it! It's all ok in the end! Despite my few issues, it really is an easy and fun block to make. I hope you have fun with it.

In each package that I sent, I included one colored square 4 1/2" for the center of the block and one strip of white kona cotton 4 1/2" x wof for the background.

If you would be so kind as to use fabric for the star points from your own fabric scraps/stash, using red and aqua fabrics, I would appreciate it. This will add more color/fabric variety to my quilt! (If you need additional fabric, just let me know and I can pop some in the mail.)

Any questions?

Thanks so much for helping me make my quilt!