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Stars and Scopes
2008
Bed Quilt: Machine pieced, hand quilted
Pattern: 6 triangle hexagon on a paper pieced hexagon back
Milky Way from Quilters Newsletter Magazine jan/feb 1998

This is the second quilt I have made using this block combo. I fussy cut the 6 kaleidoscope triangles and then sewed them into hexagon blocks. The Milky-way blocks were paper pieced. (When I first read about paper piecing I got the impression this was a good way to use up scrap material – not so!) The blocks were then machine joined together into a rough center piece rectangle. The rectangle was then hand appliqued to the border frame. The gold lame bias tape was then hand sewn around each block. Spider web hexagons were hand quilted onto the border frame. Each of the star blocks is outline quilted and the kaleidoscope blocks are quilted following the design on each block. It makes for a very spectacular bed display. My husband uses the first one of these as his bed quilt when he goes to run the kitchen at summer camp for the Girl Scouts on Cape Cod each year.