Playing With My Star 60 Tool

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I was at a quilt retreat this weekend with my quilting buddies. I brought plenty of projects to work on, but a local quilt shop had a sale going on so I bought some beautiful fabric.

Shadow Play by Maywood fabrics had a nice light, medium, dark and a great green for a backgound, everyting I needed for Hollow Cube 60’s. I had an idea and wanted to see if it would work.

I love my Star 60 tool by Deb Tucker and I love Hollow Cubes using the Hollow Cube 60 Technique Sheet. I wanted to see if I could fit a circle of 6 – 6″ hollow cubes inside a cirlcle of 6 – 18″ hollow cubes and it worked. I love the look! I bought the fabric on Thursday and made the quilt on Friday! The quilt measures 60″ x 60″.

Next up was a challenge to make a 36″ finished quilt with the main focus using 7 fat quarters of 30’s reproduction fabric.

I decided to use Deb Tucker’s Star 60 Log Cabin Technique Sheet and of course my Star 60 Tool. I chose to add 6 rounds of 1/2″ finished logs for a 27″ finished log cabin star. I added Half Rectangle Triangles using the Star 60 tool instructions to make the hexagon into a rectangle. I added 2″ strips to make it square and added a 2″ border to make it 36″. I love my Star 60 Tool! All together a very productive weekend.

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6 thoughts on “Playing With My Star 60 Tool”

  1. Verna Wheeler

    i took a class from you at Lake Havasu many years ago and loved it. But, another class I wanted to take came up, so I never finished my one-block-wonder. Recently, I moved to an assisted living facility (I have a bad back, etc.) I kept all of my unfinished quilts and yesterday found my one-block-wonder quilt. So I am still putting together rows, but I had them all pinned and the rows numbered. I am so excited to see my project again. It is going to be as beautiful as I remembered. Just wanted to let you know, that you are being remembered as a great teacher!!

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      1. Verna Wheeler

        I would love to share my quilt with you. It is all Hawaiian fabric…..very bright. It is going to be beautiful. What a joy to work on.

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