A stellar evening

Well last night I sewed stars and got one wrong but tonight I unpicked and resewed and this time I did it right!  AND I LOVE the way these stars look together!

I think I need to make another few and I will have enough for a quilt.  I only want to make a small one so that I can get it quilted and laundered as I am dying to see how the cream recycled curtain fabric washes up.  I have so much of it to use.  

Till next time......happy stitching!

It is curtains for me!

I managed to get one more tumbler panel sewn into rows today and then have laid out the fourth.  I am really loving these colours.

I have a whole underbed storage tub full of old cream cotton curtains.   These are my cafe curtains from when we lived in Darien CT.  The entire downstairs windows had these curtains and we took them with us when we moved.  It is obvious that we will never use them again and I had forgotten all about them until earlier this week when my hubby and I were cleaning out the garage.

Now I am slowly cutting them up.  I might look at the bigger curtains for lining laundry bags.  I need to wash one panel first to see what it is like without all the starch  it current contains but the valances are too small for that.  Those I am cutting up to 3 1/2"   and 2 1/2" squares.  I am combining them with my scrappy squares in two ways and then I plan to put them all together in two ways - a coloured star with cream background

And coloured background with cream points.  

I am not quite committed to using both types of stars together.  I may make two quilts.  I will decide once I get lots more stars completed.  This will be a project I pick up when I just need a break and want to do something simple.

Till next time............happy stitching!