Bright stars quilt

Well it's Wednesday night, my lovely husband has taken a night off to go see a movie and little Miss O is fast asleep and dreaming in her cot, so I thought I would share my latest quilty project.  It's a fun, fast and very colourful pattern, and super easy to make (the next quickest thing to a simple square layout).

This is not a great photo unfortunately, and doesn't really do the bright colours justice.  I'm still learning how to photograph quilts! It's definitely an art.

This quilt was born out of a pile of random solid fabrics that happened to be in a stack.  I liked the mix of colours, so decided to put them all together in a quilt.

The star blocks were made very simply, by cutting away a diagonal strip off a square of coloured fabric and sewing on a piece of white/neutral fabric.  I didn't bother with a template, just cut the approximate size triangles, then I used the corresponding coloured piece to help with cutting the right angle.  Needless to say, there were a couple of mistakes made along the way :-)  The effect of cutting the pieces 'freehand' is that there is a bit of variation in the shape of each star (I like it when things look a little bit irregular - it's a more "handmade" look).

I hope to take a much better shot once I have quilted it.  Not quite sure how I'm going to quilt it yet, will have to think on it some more...