Maple Stars

Maple - syrup for French toast, big beautiful shade trees on a warm summer day - just that word brings to mind all kinds of sweet things.  I have been admiring the Maple Star block for a while and never made one before.  Aunt Brenda gave me this little calendar flip book where I again spotted the Maple Star block that called out to me.  I have been needing to make some new table runners for my Etsy shop, so I decided to turn some Maple Stars into table runners.

At the Little Foot Quilt Shoppe I found and fell in love with some charm packs of the new Moda fabric line called Fresh Cut.  This particular block utilizes the 5" square with very little waste.  I also bought a coordinating gray print for the background.  I cut fabric to make 6 blocks, and then I'll decide what to do with them from there.  I pieced 2 blocks early this morning, and they only took about 10 minutes each, so pretty and quick!

I have a new sewing accessory at my desk.  Uncle Dave made this special bowl for my snippets of string and fabric to replace the old recycled Cool Whip container I was using.  Quite an improvement, don't you think?

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Thanks for visiting and checking out my quilting projects.  I'm going to link up at Freshly Pieced for WIP Wednesday.  Have a nice day!