Where it all becomes clear...

We've have a quiet start to the week - with some at home time/sewing time/reading time, and a great day out yesterday visiting Ms Lottie and family.  Something that we try and do once each holiday where the kids get to have a good old fashioned run around (think Lord of the Flies - it doesn't pay to ask to many questions about what they're doing or why) and I get to have some good old friendly adult conversation, with a touch of quilting thrown in.  It's been a successful trip if we come away with no blood and two eyes the kids needing to hop straight into the shower when we get home, but they're clean enough to go in the car without removing all their clothes.   Trust me, been there, done that!  And this time it was close, oh so close!

So we've been in recovery mode today... or at least I have.  Woke up with the blahs, feeling a bit hungover without having had the joy of getting drunk in the first place.  However, even hungover feeling people can sew...

And the clever layout can now be revealed - it is just a giant nine patch.

This is per the quilt layout diagram in the instructions...

And this one is per the picture of the quilt on the cover...

I'm liking version two, after all, I fell in love with the picture, not the diagram!
 
I've also pulled the fabric for the back of the large star quilt... funny how you can add extra fabric to a selection and it allows the rejected fabric from the original pull to fit back into the grouping.  For example I had originally chosen the DS Quilts large polka dot to be part of the large star - but it just didn't quite work - the grey is too blue in comparison to the other fabrics I had chosen.  When you add the Silent Cinema floral (which has the grey, orange and blue) - it all works perfectly.  Now I just need to cut this up and sew it all back together again.

I've also finished sewing this beast together - only to discover that one of the partial units was upside down... so a bit of unsewing required!  I think it's the one at the top, third column in...