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!

Images in this post courtesy of Quiltmaker’s Quilty Pleasures blog.