This year’s guild challenge was “Shoot for the Stars”. There have got to be hundreds of intriguing star blocks that could be made into a quilt to answer that call. And since “star” has a wide interpretation, it could also mean celebrities or heroes. There are also star fish, lucky stars, Star Trek (or Wars, depending on your sci fi preference), star fruit, your star “sign”, and ever popular Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. So much to choose from. But what really captured my imagination was the word “shoot”.
What could be better than shooting stars? And when I sat down to think about it, there was more than one way for “shooting stars” to happen. So here we see a bear on star studded night who is out with his trusty blunderbuss, doing a little bit of star shooting.
I hope he has a license for that gun.
For this quilt I pulled out my sparkly threads and fabrics, and dove into my organza collection. While organza is a truly maddening fabric to use in a quilt, it is generally a survivable endeavour, and I was even able to use some pieces that were left over from my Look Up at the Stars quilt, tying this one back to Stephen Hawking, who spent a life time revealing the secrets of the stars and the universe.
