Stars in a Time Warp

 

Big accomplishment here! 

Today is the last installment of

Barbara Brackman's year-long

STARS IN A TIME WARP

study series, and I made it through the whole thing!

 

Our final assignments were

 shawl prints,

 printed textiles which resemble woven paisleys: 

 

stick prints:  

 and cracked ice prints:

both of which were popular novelty styles

during the 1800s.

 

I learned a great deal about textile history from this series, and also spent some quality time throughout the year rummaging through my stash for appropriate fabrics!  I was able to come up with at least one example of every week's study topic -- what can I say beyond "deep stash." :) 

 

I've ended up with 44 stars that have blue fabrics:

 

 and 114 stars that don't include any blue colorations:

 

The blue stars are on my To-Do Short List 

to become a strippy quilt, and the others will eventually be another large quilt.

 

Thanks, Barbara,

for an enlightening and entertaining year!

 

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