I continued working on The Annette Gero Star quilt yesterday, ferreting through drawers and boxes and pulling out any fabric that I thought would work in this. 

I didn't want the stars to be too much darker than the alternate blocks, so I'll add a few muted pinks like the ones in the original quilt. Those stars probably started out red and faded to pink; I'm going with pink so I can use some of my old favourites.

Look at that, I dated the photos and the negatives. This was a few years before I could afford my first digital camera (it cost $1000 and I could only afford it because it was a business expense). Back then, once the film was used up there were no more photos, and then it was a wait of 2 weeks for developing.

It's sort of appropriate to use this fabric from the same year. An oldie, but a goodie.

I was good and cut a 6.5" strip from all my fabrics and then put the remainder away so it wasn't cluttering up my surfaces. Then I ironed the strips and cut squares from the ones that I'd earmarked for the alternate blocks.

I think I'm going to like this!

I also cut up all the background fabric I had, and there was enough for 36 blocks. I might want the quilt to be bigger, so I'll need to investigate another off-white for that. I'm strenuously resisting the Connecting Threads Black Friday emails, but I'm tempted ....

This is another of Annette's quilts, so beautiful, the amount of tiny stitching was incredible.

Oh my goodness, the trapunto, and the background quilting, and the perfect applique.

The pink was probably red once, and those white dots are where the iron based mordant destroyed the fabric over time. The close quilting preserved the integrity of the piece; such a beautiful, beautiful quilt.