| The Twisted Star
The Twisted Star was designed by my
son, Bradley Niemeyer, to meet the requirements for his final project
in a college engineering economics course. The project instructions were
to develop a product using an engineering tool that could be the basis
for a small business. With a little (okay, maybe a lot) of coaxing from
his mother, Brad decided to draft and design another quilt pattern for
my business. Bradley started with a simple idea of setting a star into
a triangle. The stars, although dazzling by themselves, didn't create
a quilt with much energy. He started toying with ways to tie the stars
together. A surprisingly simple, yet attractive, interlocking border was
created by placing a half melon sliced in six pieces into each side of
the triangle. This made the star quite distinctive from others due to
the mismatched points that it created, three being long and three being
short. This mismatched quality was very appealing as it gave the appearance
of a star that had been twisted upon itself, giving rise to the name,
"Twisted Star." The foundation piecing units are very simple to make.
The ribbons are made using a method of strip piecing with foundation paper.
The curved piecing level of this quilt is defiantly at a beginner lever.
The background for this quilt was created by blending the value, texture,
and color of several fabrics.
We also have available extra instructions for making
a Twisted Star Quilt similiar to the one made for Hoffman fabrics.
Click here: Hoffman
Quilt Instructions to get this information. It is a fairly large Acrobat
Reader file so please be patient with the download.
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