Several years ago I was unable to use my left arm and was in considerable pain. I was not recovering and the pain medication was not doing it's job. I knew that doing something positive could help the healing process.
When I couldn't sleep I got up at 4 a.m. and thought about making a Lone Star quilt with strips I had already cut. I went to the computer and using the first colors on the palette designed a Lone Star.
I pulled out my box of strips and with one arm began sewing them together. As I did each step, I noticed I was improving enough to do the next step.
After making all the points I looked through my fabric collection and finally found the perfect fabric to finish the quilt.
After completing the first quilt top I realized I had the same background print in another color way.
I created this Broken Star using this fabric as my inspiration
I wanted to do this with a fabric that did not have a quarter circle design.
This quilt was done with a fabric with a linear color striation.
I will be teaching my Eight Pointed Star for One Armed Quilter at the Lighthouse Quilt Guild in Racine, Wisconsin on Monday September 29, 2008.
I will also be doing my lecture "Creating Spectacular Quilts" for them that evening.
9 comments:
Wow! I am impressed. What a perfect fabric for the insets in that star.
Those are phenominal!!!
They are beautiful and inspirational! What an achievement with one arm!
Those are really beautiful! I love your use of color.
I love your one-armed stars!
Talk about a wow factor! These are very impressive!
Those curved insets really do the trick and your colors are wonderful.
Very striking quilts!
I'm sure I would not have achieved those, even with two arms! Very striking indeed.
I've just damaged my right hand but I'm not going to attmpt this rught now!
But I do have some of that fabric in my stash. I have a funny feeling I only have six of them so a six inch star will be the answer.
Very cool quilts
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