Quilt Shot Block 153~ Scrappy North Star

North Star

made by a QOV friend

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Today is QOV National Sew Day.

All around the USA

people are working alone or together on QOV quilts/projects.

This is the first year I've been able to attend a group session

because I was either in Florida where I worked on my own,

then 2 years of horrible virus,and last year we were snowed out.

Next Sat I'll try to post shots from today's event.

Meanwhile:

 

I brought home this QOV quilt a while back to

mend an accidental cut on the corner and to bind it.

 

The cutting accident happened on the very corner.

 

The front side was easy.

I just had to replace the 2.5 inch square.

Good thing we had matching fabric. 

I had used a Frixon pin to trace the quilting lines

before I removed the quilting stitches.

Then I was able to stitch the quilting lines back where

they originally had been.

 

I called this a "scrappy" North Star

because Clara D that made this quilt

made each star with

different fabrics of the center and points.

Research tells me this was a pattern

used by the Underground Railroad

and it seems it was usually a solid color.

Some will say the use of quilts on the Underground Railroad

is not true because there is no original written history.

I'll argue all day, that is no proof, because

first a lot of people then could not read or write directions

 and therefore stories/directions were orally passed on & handed down.

Two, the Underground Railroad had to stay secret and

probably did not want to put anything in writing 

for people to discover.

 

This quilt might be awarded in May.

When it is awarded,

I'll post a full view of the quilt.