Bali Sea Star Quilt

If you've fallen in love with Bali Pops or Tonga Treats Strips and didn't know what to do with them, here is the perfect solution. We will be making the gorgeous cover quilt featured on the book "Scrap-Basket Surprises" by Kim Brackett. "Bali Sea Star" is cleverly pieced and based on 2 ½" strips!! To make just the center star blocks as shown, you need one Bali Pop or Tonga Treat Strips (40 - 2 ½" wide strips) and 2 ½ yds background. To make the border as shown, you need 1 1/8 yd for the inner border and 11 more 2 ½ " strips OR you could just pick a beautiful fabric for the outer border. The current quilt is 4 blocks by 5 blocks (20 blocks ~60"x72") but if you wanted it bigger, add 2 more columns of 5 blocks to make it 5 blocks by 6 blocks (30 blocks ~72"x84"). Since each block uses 2 strips, you would need 60 strips instead of the 40 for the sample size. So if you used 2 Bali Pops/Tonga Treats Strips, you would have 60 strips for the star blocks and 20 strips left to do the outside border - sounds perfect to me!! Must also buy the book, but this is a rich book with many other patterns you will want to use. (Sewing machine required) Advanced beginner level.
One 5 hour session:  $50.00
Supplies: List available upon registration
Instructor: Sally Halliday

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