Twilight Stars Quilt Along Weeks 4 and 5 - Primitive Gatherings

It’s the fifth week of the Twilight Stars Quilt Along with Lisa Bongean of Primitive Gatherings. I am catching up on blog posts, so I’m also going to share week 4 that I already completed in this week’s blog post.

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The details of the quilt along can be found on Lisa’s Blog.

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Quilt Along Supplies

This quilt along only requires a few supplies. First is the Triangle Gatherings quilt book. This book has 100 different layout ideas using just half square triangles. You will also need half square triangle papers in the size that you need based on the quilt block size you choose to do. On Lisa Bongean’s blog, you will find instructions for 4″, 6″, 8″ or 12″ blocks. I am making the 6″ block size.

I am also using the Flying Geese foundation papers from Fat Quarter Shop to make the surrounding flying geese. This is totally a personal choice. There are many ways to make flying geese and you can use whatever method you choose. I just find the accuracy of the papers to be so easy.

The fabrics I’m using are a Bella solid white and a Free Spirit bright colors fat quarter bundle that I had in my stash.

Twilight Stars Quilt Blocks Week 4

For week 4, the block numbers were 47 and 79. I’m getting more and more of the rainbow colors added to my blocks.

Twilight Stars Quilt Blocks Week 5

Week 5 was blocks 43 and 58 in the book. I’m not as happy with the points in the center of this block, but I’ll just try again next week. The truth is once this quilt is assembled, in all of its rainbow goodness, and machine quilted…no one is going to notice my points aren’t perfect.

I am playing around with how I pin the different pieces together in an attempt to get my points to meet more nicely. This week, I did four-square blocks and then connected each of the 4 patches. My center horizontal line didn’t match up as well. Next week I may tinker with it a little more. But that’s the beauty of a year long quilt along: I have time to develop my skills and try doing different things with similar blocks to see which method works the best.