Details about the Silver Star Friendship Quilt
A closer view of the bottom
A dozen-plus blocks from this photo are shown below. Clicking on the block will take you to a new page with larger photos, more information and, in some cases, Website links. Remember, blocks appear distorted because the images were clipped from photos like the one above.
Block 50 - Penny McMorris made a bright Variable Star block.
Block 51 - Kathy O'Meara Magnuson designed an amazing block and used Shades hand-dyed fabrics.
Block 54 - Paula Nadelstern used fabrics she designed for her spinning Kaleidoscope star.
Block 59 - Karey Bresenhan, Willie Hart, Judy Murrah, Nancy O'Bryant (Quilts, Inc.) made a clever Log Cabin.
Block 60 - Rita Weiss's and Linda Causee's block (ASN) featured a book cover from Marti's "Quiltilng for People" series published by ASN. This was one of their first books to hit the 100,000 Club and it has now sold well over half a million copies.
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61 - Fern Richardson, from the Yours Truly days used Yours Truly fabrics in her Ohio Star block.
Block 62 - Cheryl Greider Bradkin miniaturized the patchwork that was featured on the cover of her book Seminole Patchwork, which we (Yours Truly) published in 1980.
Block 64 - Ellen Rosintoski's block - we actually picked up 2 more of her blocks off the design wall and thought they were for the quilt!
Block 16, bottom left side of quilt - Anne Dawson has made only one quilt and she used scraps from that adventure to make her block.
Block 17 - Sally Paul and Marti have had a lot of fun together over many years of friendship.
Block 11 in the lower right corner - Gudfinna Helgesdottir appliqued an Iceland landscape, truly a labor of love.
Block 9 - Jeff Michell and family selected fabrics for their nin patch that reflect personal favorites.
BONUS BLOCKS!
Block 18 - Carole Nicholas depicted the cover of her Yours Truly pattern on her block.
Block 58 - Liz Porter made a spinning star block. Marti/Yours Truly was Fons & Porter's first publisher.
Block 71 - Jean Wells' and Valori Wells' block - it really is a 9" square block! But perspective was working against us!
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