In the September/October issue of Quiltmaker you’ll find Janice Averill’s gorgeous Magic Stars quilt.
When you look at this quilt, you wouldn’t believe that the individual block looks like this:
On Quiltmaker’s blog, Janice shares how she drew the block in EQ7 and gives a peek into her design process. It’s quite interesting to read about diagonal designs and see her work evolve from grayscale to color.
The Magic Stars quilt is also the focus for this month’s Scrap Squad and you should see the beautiful variations this month’s crew is sewing up! Margaret Kennedy used EQ7 to play with color and layout:
And Beth Kerr Helfter re-drafted to a size she was more comfortable working with and combined four blocks into one larger block like this:
Click here to check out all the Scrap Squad posts for Magic Stars!
09-25-2014
2:38 pm
Thanks for the shout-out for Scrap Squad and the Magic Stars quilt. I would not have come up with my layout for this design without using EQ!
12-31-2017
10:12 pm
Perusing a Quiltmaker magazine, I found “Magic Stars” quilt pattern and your scrappy version and I was immediately drawn to both. Your scrappy version would seem to cry out to me to use Kaffee Fassett fabrics which I am drawn to because of the mysterious patterns and bright colors. Is the scrappy version pattern available? If not, thanks for the wonderful picture of it.