Rainbow Scrappy Star Blocks Quilt Top!

The Scrappy Star Block (click here for Jennie's tutorial),  is such a fun design for using whimsical low volume fabrics for the background and happy colours for the stars!  I received two blocks from nine rainbow quilt bee participants and I decided I wanted to make a quilt with 25 blocks, so I enjoyed sewing up the remaining blocks needed to finish.

Scrappy Star blocks are perfect for using fussy cuts!

I kept track of the star colours made by the ladies in the quilt bee, so that I could fill in any colours that were short.

These are the final four blocks I needed to make my quilt and I love that I was able to use so many playful prints from my stash in each of them.

My plans for the quilt layout stalled as I tried to figure out sashing and border fabric choices.  I had ideas of sewing mini stars into the sashing or  with cornerstones separating the single fabric choice for the sashing, but in the end, I went simple.

My vintage Singer Featherweight stitched the sashing strips onto the star blocks as my first project after our move.

Prior to our latest move, I pulled out strips from my low volume fabric scraps and did a mock layout on our bed.  I ran short of time to cut and sew the selected strips to the quilt blocks, but I pinned and labelled everything for me to finish after the move.

Here's a sneak peek at the finished quilt top!

While I wait for the order of batting to arrive, I will be figuring out backing and binding fabrics from my stash, and admiring how wonderful it is to see all these scrappy stars from friends near and far.