UFOs to Quilts

I have a LOT of teaching samples. For 17 years I was teaching for the Sewing Expo (OSQE) and I needed to create 4-5 new workshops each year! Yes, you read that right. At one time, I had 40 of my workshop boxes in my garage and closet floor, stacked neatly with all sorts of samples.

Some of my Chobani yogurt boxes of samples

Circle of Stars was a variation of my larger Double Hexie Star. I used some small motifs from the awesome Paula Nadelstern Fabricadabra Collection.

Circle of Stars (in center)

Here's a single star of the six I made (no y-seams, of course).

Fabricadabra Star

I gave that center panel to my quilt guild and one of the members who works on the charity quilts made it larger with the inner borders and the dogtooth triangles. It's beautiful!

Another large block that became a charity quilt is one of my samples from the Sassy Mariner's Compass workshop. I had many variations of this and it also appeared in my 3rd book. Here is my workshop sample:

Sassy Mariner's Compass

I called it "sassy" because of the fun prints and colors. I also added that extra ring of paper pieced triangles to the one in my book:

Mariner's Compass: 16" block; 28" x 28" quilt

Here is the one I gave to my guild and they added borders and quilted it:

Sassy Mariner's Compass

Believe it or not, I still have one more center compass block hanging around here! I think I will work on it by adding pieced borders and stretching it out to be a lap quilt for a teen. I'll keep you posted when I do.