Another scrappy quilt!

Hello sisters!

This quilt has a designer! Unlike many of my recent quilts.  Of course I am changing it.  

I am modifying a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Kismet.  Her leader and ender project last year was the cats cradle block.  She called it fish school and I can see why.  You can see it in her free patterns tab at Quiltville.com.

This year she used those blocks in her quilt Kismet

The Fish School block

The fish blocks were so much fun for me that I was looking in all my premade scraps for half square triangles.  Bonnies were quite small but I made my fish to finish at 6" so I could use them as block exchange blocks for Treadle-On Toga block exchanges.  So my half square triangles were 3.5 unfinished.

I used quite a few HST's from my friend Esther Bring who has passed on.  It is fun to see them finally being used.  Friends have commented that the colors do not look my normal very bright colors.  Blame Esther!

This is the first toss up on the design wall.

I had both the scrappy crumb blocks and the large light HST's leftover from another project so I decided to use them instead of the string blocks Bonnie used                       

Next I decided the dark crumbs blocks made everything too dark.

I had a few light crumb blocks leftover from the same quilt that I snuck the other blocks from so I put them in place. You might notice that one of the light blocks in this picture is just a plain square.  I only had three crumb blocks on hand. I really liked that look better so I had to make some more light crumb blocks.  They are too much fun to make.  But messy in the quilt room!  LOL.

And now I had to make a lot more fish!

As you can see I prefer to make my half square triangles eight at a time! It is so fast that way!

    Here is a pile of fish blocks cut out and ready to sew!

Still working on the design.

                                       

More fish up on the wall.

Lots more fish. 

                                                       About this time I decided to turn the large light half square triangles so the lighter fabric was in the middle.  I like that better.  It seemed to make the stars show up better. Next I had to move everything on the design wall so I could see the star blocks better.  This allowed me to place all but the two right columns on the wall.                    Now I can see the 5 star blocks and 4 on point blocks between them.  I think this will be the center of the top.  Since that will only be a 60" square I might have to figure out a border.                                                                      I was still thinking something was not quite right. I decided to see if I could make each star block more or less the same color.

I could!

I think color coordinating the stars makes them more visible.  I like to see the stars! Anyone who knows me knows that stars are high on my list of the things that make me happy. 

Obviously I will now have to make more fish!  I will be adding more reddish/orange and purple fish.  Also some more greens because I am not sure I like all the choices I already have.   I have to go shopping in my stash!

So stay tuned!  More to come!

Hugs,

Nancy