I finished putting the Star Crossed Rainbow top together on Saturday.  Once the blocks were together it went rather quickly.  My 1/4 inch seams must be generous, because my blocks measured 1/4 inch too small.  I think it was because of the pinked edges on the strips.  I “should” have done a test block and measured it, and realigned my sewing line accordingly.  Since all of my blocks were the same size I simply altered the size of the solid colored blocks.  Everything fit together well in  the end.

I used Myra’s (Busy Hands Quilts) free pattern “Star Crossed Rainbow” from her  Etsy shop .  Instead of forty different colors I used twenty, and made two sets of them.  I hope to have this quilted and ready to go by the end of the month.  It is to be a gift for some very dear friends on the occasion of their anniversary, which is on July 4th.

I’ve ben plugging along on the True Blue quilt.  *Note to self: 8 inch wide end to end patterns can look just as nice as 6 inch wide ones, especially on a king size quilt.  Each row takes about twenty minutes to sew.  This quilt is 100 inches long, which means sixteen and a half rows, which means about six hours of continuous quilting.  That doesn’t take into account, thread breaks, bobbin changes or operator errors.  If I had made the rows 8 inches wide instead, I could have reduced that time to four plus hours.  Its a learning process 🙂

Linking up with Judy at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts for Design Wall Monday today.