At the beginning of May, my guild (Tarheel Quilter’s Guild) hosted a workshop by Jane Godshall on how to do a “Rapid Fire” Hunter’s Star. I don’t get to attend classes near as often as I would like, so I jumped on the opportunity!
My travel machine is my trusty Featherweight.
The rapid fire method to make these blocks isn’t very intuitive, but it does produce an accurate block that is pretty easy to assemble and chain piece.
These aren’t my normal colors, but this quilt is intended to be a gift. Can I finish by Christmas? We’ll find out!
One of the fun things she had us do was to layout our blocks in different variations other than a traditional Hunter’s Star.
It was interesting to see how different you could make these blocks look!
This was a demo quilt brought by the teacher. I like the layout, and am thinking about doing this for my quilt. I just need to decide what fabric I want to use as my light.
One of my friends from the guild is much further along on her work – Aby from Aby Quilts. She is combining the Hunter’s Star with a LeMoyne Star and it’s looking really good!
Thanks Tarheel Quilters Guild for a fun day! I was very thankful that I had the opportunity to learn a new technique and spend a day with a great group of ladies 🙂
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Wonderful fabric for your quilt, the stars just pop.
How wonderful to be able to get out and take a class; I don’t get many of those opportunities, either. It sounds like it was a good learning experience, and it is super fun to see some of the alternate layouts, too.
It’s funny – the hunter’s star and the lemoyne star are my 2 favorite star blocks and on my bucket list to learn how to make. One of these days!
I like the colors you chose. The other layouts are interesting but I like the star the best.
It sounds like you had a lot of fun. I really enjoy seeing the different layouts blocks can make. Quilts with stars in them is kind of an obsession of mine I should really try doing one of these.
Love your Hunter’s Star. It’s one of my favorites but, like you, I didn’t find the ruler very intuitive … much prefer the traditional method. The alternate settings are very interesting, will need to try sometime.
There is so much you can do with these traditional blocks. I much prefer this method to the HST method our bee group used earlier in the year. It had far too many pieces.