What fun! Love the scrappy and she'll be a princess in pink.

Nice! I just love scrappies and that one is really great.

Sharon, it is beautiful! That will be one lucky baby!
Sue

Lovely quilt!
Scrappies are the best!!
TFS.

~Geraldine

Oh cute. You created your own fabric. When you said scrappy that's not what I expected.

I love it Sharon! Very nice.
Linda OH

Thank you, ladies.......I saw this concept on FB that a friend had taken a picture of hanging on the wall in her LQS but she couldn't find the pattern. I wondered why in the world she would need a pattern for it as she's a very experienced quilter. I had some 6 1/2" blocks of 1" squares already made up (UFO blocks), so thought they would work. Don't really know what size the original ones are, but I'm fine with the size of this one. The tricky part came when cutting a HST from the 6 1/2" blocks of squares. What I did was to place my ruler corner to corner, move it 1/4" then cut and actually sewing corner to corner with the pink. So, now I have 8 leftover triangles of 1" squares. :-) I think the border with the 9-patch corners helps to soften the brash colors of the star more suitable for a baby quilt. The white has pink polka dots on it and I have a 1 1/2" square left of the pink! I'm using up the stash, but you'd never know it!!

SharonG/FL

Sharon, what a neat idea! You can sew solids to those leftover scrappy triangles then use a solid or print for the center square, and have a second quilt!

Donna

That's darling. What a good use for those squares. I'd have had trouble turning them into a star, too. How will you quilt it?

What a sweet little quilt, Sharon. And how creative! Great use of tiny scraps.

Donna, You are nothing short of an enabler! You won't believe what I've come up with.....really garish using already made blocks for the center plus the leftover triangles...this is a true flying by the seat of my pants project! LOL

Linda/TG, I don't have a clue how to quilt it since all I have done is straight lines. I thought about doing a grid within the star just through the white squares, but not sure if that would look ok or not. Maybe a heart in the open places?

SharonG/FL

Sharon, Very nice ...love the design!
V.

Love scraps...you did a great job using up what you have. Love the concept. I think a grid would be great for the star center. How about a varitiey of different sized stars in the open areas to carry our the theme??
Nice job. TFS

Jayne, great idea for stars in the open areas....I like it!

Thanks, V.

Finished a square using the rest of the triangles.....it's very orange!

SharonG/FL

When I first looked at this quilt I thought "how in the world did she do that" then I saw the HSTs. Very cute and colorful!

I love it! Perfect for a Baby Girl and great use of colorful squares.

You always have such wonderful ideas!

Great idea, Sharon! Love the giant star! It seems that a lot of quilters on this forum, including myself, are really intent right now on quilting from their stash. In addition, I am not allowing myself to buy any fabric for awhile. I have found many patterns and ideas for scrap quilts on Pinterest. Now just need to get at some of them. Anxious to see how that second quilt turns out!

I very rarely have an original quilting idea but when I see a picture of a block or quilt I really like, I like to tear it apart in my mind to see how I would make it. For this one, I just happened to already have the blocks of little squares made....and a few more I didn't use. :-)

What I made with the left over little square triangles will more than likely be used as a medallion for a quilt for which I haven't been inspired.....yet. Picture is coming.....(this is one of the things DH has to do for me til my eye can see better)

SharonG/FL

Sharon you are so creative! It's perfect for a baby quilt. Kids love bright colors, and for some reason when I was growing up everything for a baby was pastel.

I helped a young lady pic out fabric for a baby gift and she bought a red oriental print. She told me that was what the mother had requested.
Rosa

Rosa, Red oriental print for a baby quilt.....I think that will be exquisite!

Here are the leftovers...again from my stash the 9-patches in the center I already had (from another project I didn't get very far on) and it's about 22" square at this point. I had to add a strip down the center and took another one apart for the corners. The orange fabric with the scrappy square HSTs is now all gone! Pretty bright, eh?

SharonG/FL