Do something fun!

I took a bit of a sewing break yesterday after a weekend of nonstop stop sewing. Time to catch up on stuff around here, you know, laundry, picking up around the house, that kind of thing. Fun and boring at the same time. The weather changed up a bit, it was cool in the morning like a real fall morning. You know, suddenly when it just seems different? Not that a few more 90+ degree days might not crop up, but they're on the way out. Not a day too soon! And rain! We had rain in the late afternoon. What a treat.

So you know Silly Lil'Doe I suspect? I was cruising her flickr page one day and saw she had a really great Lemoyne Star block. What I liked about it was that 1. no set in seams 2. the diamonds were all intact. I've seen other versions without the set in or Y seams but I didn't care for the half square triangle look for the diamonds. I like cheating, but I don't like it to look like I cheated. Does that make sense?

Anyway, I know how to make the legit stars but this looked like something I could make more than 1 or 2 of without my head blowing off. I'm not a great drafter of diamonds, so I pulled out my Art of Classic Quiltmaking book, because I knew that it had good drafting instructions in it. It's a great book for your library for sure. And there you go. I figured it out.

Of course being it's me, I didn't bother to make the whole thing, or work too hard on the matching. I was just excited it worked! Now I'll add it to my list of cool things to make.

Do anything fun?