Does it surprise anyone who reads my blog that I bought another antique top from eBay?

I could just not pass it up even though it was only partially finished.

I have been looking at string pieced quilts a lot since I purchased some string star blocks in CO.  I was also inspired by the work Kate at empty field has done on string stars.  And then Barbara Brackman had a post about string pieced quilts in a  similar pattern on her blog.  So when I saw this top I knew I had to have it.

Here is one block

Isn’t it interesting how the 60 degree diamonds made into a star can create hexagons when they are put together

there are some great fabrics

the blocks are all foundation pieced by machine

I will need to do some taking apart and re-assembly in order to square it up

I think it will make a beautiful quilt!  Here is a similar quilt from the quilt index

So there is now another project added to the growing pile of “some day quilts”

Happy Quilting

Tim