Today was dark, cold, and gloomy here in central Oklahoma. So, what’s a girl to do, except make some Aunt Bill’s Brown Candy? I always forget how much stirring is involved, but it sure is tasty!
I put the pecans on top because I don’t like them mixed in. I also only do half the pan for those who don’t like them at all. A 9x13 pan makes a ton of 1” squares of candy!
And, of course, I made some stars too!
Probably a year ago I saw an episode of Sewing with Nancy that featured a quilt author named Lynn Harris. She was making quilts from all manner of scraps, and a quilt filled with teeny tiny 3”(!) stars was one of them. I knew I needed to make that quilt!
I bought the book Every Last Piece and hit the scrap pile. It takes 434 3” stars and a background fabric. The centers of the stars are scraps of printed fabrics, and their points are all solids.
Here are a few I finished today.
And a few more I finished at an all day Open Sewing event with my Guild. It was nice to be focused just on the stars and not have pets or chores for distractions.
**The pattern is Stardust from Every Last Piece by Lynn Harris.
So, I’ve begun to wonder about the Quilted in QuiltedPig. Honestly it’s because I have not been having a nice time with my quilting machine.
So every day there is a new excuse:
The list goes on, but the point of the story is that it must stop. I saw something on Pinterest last week that really hit the nail on the head for me.
I make quilts and quilt tops others have made. I work in a hand-guided, artistic fashion in order to enhance the piecing of the tops.
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