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September 16, 2021September 16, 2021

Triple Play! 60 Degree Triangle

It’s simple geometry:

When the 3 Doan gals whip up 3 new quilts using the Equilateral 60 Degree Triangle Ruler, the result is infinite fabulosity!

Natalie’s Design: Mountain Magic

Triple Play! 60 Degree Triangle quilts including Mountain Magic for Missouri Star Quilt Co.

First, Natalie fussy-cuts fabric panels to create a modern masterpiece featuring mountains, trees, and woodland creatures on every block.

Jenny’s Design: Hexi Stacks

Triple Play! 60 Degree Triangle quilts including Hexi Stacks for Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Next, Jenny pieces intricate, overlapping hexis using holiday jelly roll strip sets—with enough left over for TWO bonus table runners.

Misty’s Design: Grandma Etta’s Stars

Triple Play! 60 Degree Triangle quilts including Grandma Etta's Stars for Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Finally, Misty uses a beautiful floral layer cake to recreate an heirloom triangle star quilt made by her great-great-grandmother.

Watch the Latest Tutorial from Missouri Star Quilt Co!

September 9, 2021September 9, 2021

Spool Stars and Stitches Quilt

Spools and Stitches Quilt by Jenny Doan for the Missouri Star Quilt Company.

In 1820 – for the very first time – thread was sold on spools. (Before that, it was skeins or hanks. Can you imagine the tangles?!)

The spools were made by a local woodturner, and the thread was wound by hand at the Clark Brothers’ factory in Paisley, Scotland. Like old fashioned soda bottles, these wooden spools came with an extra half-penny charge that was refunded when the empty spool was returned to the shop. My, how times have changed!

Spools and Stitches by Jenny Doan for the Missouri Star Quilt Company.

This week, Jenny is whipping up a homage to the magnificent spool with a brand new jelly roll quilt.

Spool Stars and Stitches starts like a classic fence rail with easy strip sets. Then, a bit of clever cutting transforms those basic strips into pretty little cross-stitch x blocks and stars made of spools! Click HERE to watch the tutorial!

August 26, 2021August 30, 2021

Boho Blooms Quilt

Picture this: You are relaxing next to a desert campfire. Rocky cliffs and towering saguaros are silhouetted by a fire-red sunset. The scent of sagebrush floats in the cool, evening air. You wrap a quilt around your shoulders and listen for the call of a distant coyote.

Of course, such an idyllic moment demands a carefully chosen quilt—and we’ve got just the thing!

Boho Blooms by Jenny Doan of Missouri Star Quilt Co.

Boho Blooms is a beautiful Southwestern quilt pattern inspired by the classic Squash Blossom. It comes together quickly with layer cake squares and snowballed corners. Best of all, Jenny turns the scraps into a pretty pieced border, so this is one quilt with absolutely no waste!

Click HERE to watch the tutorial, and you’ll be ready for a picture-perfect desert sunset!

August 19, 2021August 19, 2021

Triple Play! Pins & Paws

Pins & Paws Triple Play with Jenny, Natalie & Misty.

If you love cats, you’re in good company!

Catherine the Great kept up to 300 cats inside her Winter Palace.

Florence Nightingale’s personal writings are dotted with the inky paw prints of her feline companions.

Itty Bitty Kitty Committee

And Abraham Lincoln took his cats to live at the White House, where Tabby was fed with a golden fork during a formal dinner with visiting dignitaries, and Dixie was declared to be “smarter than my whole cabinet!”

Cats in the Window

Of course, here at Missouri Star, we love cats so much, we can’t stop quilting them!

Calico Cats

This month’s Triple Play tutorial is based on Jenny’s Pins & Paws cat quilt block. Natalie whipped up a set of colorful, patchwork cats. Misty stitched miniature charm pack kittens. And Jenny used a Halloween layer cake and placed her cats inside Attic Window frames. We can’t wait to see which quilt you make first!

Click HERE to watch these tutorials now!

August 5, 2021August 5, 2021

Lakeview Terrace Quilt

I’ve never met a sunset I didn’t love.

Big-city sunsets always impress, with skyscrapers silhouetted against a golden sky. Winter sunsets transform freshly-fallen snow into acres of pink cotton candy.

But nothing compares to sunset on the lake. Those colors dance on rippling water, creating a light show like nothing on earth!

This week Jenny is whipping up a Lakeview Terrace jelly roll quilt with colorful bargello chevrons that remind us of sunset-tipped waves. What a dream!

Click HERE to watch the tutorial!