Chevron Star Quilt

Today I'm super excited to release the first of my two new patterns: Chevron Star!

Show of hands: How many of you enjoy paper-piecing, but start feeling a little nauseous when a pattern asks you to make like 900 of the same block? If that sounds like you, I'd like you to meet Chevron Star. Chevron Star will make no such demands on you. Chevron Star wants you to piece a few blocks and then go outside to play. 😊

The other thing that I love about this pattern is that it has negative space that is pieced. Think that's an oxymoron? I don't! Because of course we all love our negative space, but sometimes sewing with giant chunks of white fabric is just not all that ... fun. I think of Chevron Star as my best-of-all-worlds quilt, and I hope you'll think so too.

This quilt got a lot of attention while it was on display in my booth at Quilt Market a week ago, so I'm happy to get the pattern out to you all at last! Of course, I think a large portion of its show-stoppy-ness is due to the AMAZING quilting, done by Stephanie Palmer of Late Night Quilter. Deciding how to quilt things has never been my forté, so I love a quilter who can add to my piecing design with her own creative ideas. And Stephanie knocked this one out of the park! Go visit her blog to see more of her amazing work.

I made Chevron Star mostly out of Cotton + Steel basics and solids. That includes "Netorious" in Cloud Metallic. It's a subtle metallic that doesn't come across in my photographs all that well, but trust me, this fabric glows in person, and I love the sheen it gives to the quilt!

And one week from today, I'll be releasing my other newbie pattern, Moroccan Lanterns, so stop back by for that one as well! Now go sew something! 😊