STARS IN A TIME WARP: Weekly Lessons in a Shower of Stars

In 2015 I'm planning a QuiltAlong over on my Civil War Quilts blog. Every Wednesday I'll post a piece----but it won't be a pattern for a different design each week.

For the Stars in a Time Warp QuiltAlong we'll be doing the same 6" sawtooth star every week.



What will change weekly is the fabric.


Each post will be a lesson on reproduction fabrics in a particular style or color.


You'll wind up with many 6" stars that you can mix or match into time warp quilts....

Reproduction quilts large and small.



The fabric lessons will be based on my books America's Printed Fabrics 1770-1890 and Making History: Quilts and Fabric from 1890-1970.



In January we'll begin in the 1840s with tips for finding authentic reproduction prints in Turkey red and Prussian blue style.

We'll go forward in time stitching sawtooth stars from the reproduction prints in your stash or on your shopping list.


 Because it's a time warp we can shift backwards too, exploring the days of chintz and toile.

You can make one star or more each week. By the end of the series we'll have a shower of stars to set into a quilt from mini-sized to king-sized.