Lone Star Quilt

Antique Lone Star with soft peach tones and printed fabrics.

Antique quilts feature one large central star with radiating rings or bands of color, from the center to the tips.

Spiral Lone Star

Star variations are also popular, as seen in the Broken Star quilt. Traditional quilts were bold, graphic and dynamic.

Feathered Lone Star--the central star features a row of split diamonds and printed floral fabrics.

Today's tools and construction methods allow quilters to sew series of strips together, and to cut pieced rows of 45-degree diamonds to form the diamond units.

Dragonfly Pond--effective use of border printed fabrics.

The process of designing and constructing a Lone Star quilt is challenging. It demands accuracy and precision from the quiltmaker in the following areas:

Guest Jan Krentz demonstrated the Summer Salsa Lone Star pattern.

Summer Salsa Lone Star

Steps:

1. Design the paste-up or mock-up using quilter's design mirrors.

2. Assemble the strip sets. The fabric strip sets should be lightly starched with the seams pressed open.

3. Make secondary cuts on the 45-degree angle.

4. Lay out the diamond rows.

5. Pin sew the diamond rows.

6. Make and use a blocking cloth.

7. Set the quilt together with Y-seam construction methods.