Helen Frost Young taught a workshop on the Lone Star pattern. She asked us to pick out a dark medium and light fabric for the lone-star and complementary background and border fabrics. Some students picked the border fabric first and then chose complementary fabrics from those.
I chose Japanese dragonfly fabrics in yellow pink and orange. Usually those colors don't match, but because the fabrics were like Japanese chirimen, almost a seersucker like fabric, they were complimentary in feel. The background pale pink is also a Japanese fabric with a subtle woven feel.
The skinny border is an old Japanese print and the orange border is the orange middle fabric used in the lone-star. I used free motion quilting to highlight the dragonfly motifs in the border fabric.
The backing fabric and border are the same. I don't remember where I got this. Helen asked me where I found the dragonfly fabrics. I think I bought the fabrics at Kaimuki Dry goods. Probably a long time ago. Whenever I visit my Mom in Hawaii, I always look for fabric, especially Japanese fabric. I could have used regular quilting fabric especially since this was a sampler workshop, but I decided that the dragonflies had waited long enough. I used wool batting which gave it a puffy lightness to the quilt.
