Paper Pieced Stars Quilt

Sorry to say that this quilt top hasn't acquired a more creative name than Paper Pieced Stars. I could probably call it Stars and Geese or Starry Geese or Goosey Stars but I digress.

I will admit that I'm not going to make my 10,000 word weekend goal. But look at the sewing I've done.

As it stood a few nights ago, when this quilt top is put together, it will only be about 42" square. I really want it to be larger so I started cutting out 2.5" squares from my scrap box and after putting together over 100 half square triangles via chain piecing last night (I love chain piecing), I have the stars for some stars to go on the top and bottom of this quilt.

These will be six inches across, so I will need twelve of them. And much to my dismay, I discovered that I only cut out enough for 9.5 stars. Nope, no idea why I have 9.5 instead of a nice round number like 9 or 10. I will be cutting and piecing the other 36 sometime tonight or tomorrow, I hope. These blocks with the corresponding flying geese will give me a quilt that is 42" x 58" so a couple three inch borders later and I will have a good sized throw quilt.

By the way, I recently stumbled across an episode of Hoarders: Buried Alive and let me tell you, my little messes are MINOR compared to these disasters. Give me an hour in any one room in my house and it will be clean. Its also incentive to get rid of stuff NOW before you have to have a TV show tell you that things are out of control.