A few weeks ago I had Tonya Ricucci's Liberated Amish challenge in the back of my mind as I cleaned out my scrap baskets. I made a pile of what I considered to be Amish colours, well.. the brighter Amish colours, I don't have many sombre darks in my stash. :)

I found this picture of a quilt and said " Oh my stars!!! I've found my inspiration!!".


And I liberated, wonkied, improvised and sewed my scraps together...

I made big stars and little stars...
And this is where I'm at now...
It's pretty busy for an Amish quilt, so I might have to ponder more about the Amish challenge and see if I can come up with another quilt. But as scrappy liberated star quilts go I'm really happy with it.

At the moment it's 50 x 60 inches. I'm not sure whether I'll add borders or just leave it as is. I don't want to go too much wider because I've got a wall space for it. Maybe a border along one side and the bottom? I did wonder about piecing the year along the bottom or the words "Happy Star".

Check out the wild and unruly fun over at UnRuly Quilting blog. Lots of clever quilters getting liberated and wonky and quite Unruly!! Or feel free to put aside your ruler and join in the fun!!