Excavating

I don't know if this can be considered ancient but Saturday and Sunday I dug my feathered star blocks from a back drawer and sewed them together. I have no idea when I made my first block but I know that I was already working on hand piecing them before I entered the blogging world! So some of these blocks have been around since before the fall of 2006!

Mrs. Furui and Mrs. Harada and I were goint to make feathered star quilts together and Mrs. Harada finished her one star wall hanging. Mrs. Furui is still in the cutting/piecing stage (she is going to be upset to know I'm working on this again!)

My original goal was to piece a block a month but after making 12 blocks I put them away in a drawer where they stagnated. I got involved with other things for awhile and then brought it back out in April 2008 in order to put in the lattice. BUT... when it was mostly sewn and laid out I decided that I didn't like the fabrics I'd chosen!!! Too bright and the lattice overpowered the blocks! So the quilt got taken apart again and has been fossilizing in the drawer ever since.

Last summer I bought a lot of light colored blue fabric in the States but didn't get around to thinking about this quilt until Saturday morning. So those fabrics have been buried in a box for 7 months too. But once I get on a roll I really get with it and for the past two days I've lived upstairs with Velvet and have been cutting and ironing and sewing. I have used up almost all of the very lightest fabric. I think I need to put one more narrow strip to even out the corner blocks but I'm not sure I even have enough fabric for that... I don't know what I'm going to do about borders or quilting except that I plan to hand quilt this. I guess this is going to be another 4 year quilt...