Slanted Star

I love making Kim Deihl’s Simple Whatnots quilts, but somehow there always seems to be twice as much fabric as I need in every quilt kit. If I don’t do something about it – soon – I’m likely to be buried alive in brown, teal, blue, gold and rust prints. I was browsing through some old photos and stumbled on this one: a patriotic top that became a Wounded Warrior quilt donation. With a 4” border, it would have come to 60x68”. The pattern called for thirty 4.5” neutral squares, twenty-one 4.5” blue squares with two 2.5” red triangles, twenty-one 4.5” red squares with two 2.5” blue triangles, ninety-seven 4.5” neutral squares with one red and one blue triangle each, and twenty-six 4.5” neutral squares with one 2.5” yellow triangle each. I could repeat this quilt in Kim Deihl scraps, and maybe make a small dent in my stash.