Star Crossed Christmas Quilt Block

I am either late, or very early.  You choose.

Regardless, this week, I played with the Star Crossed Christmas quilt block from Nancy Martin’s Perpetual Calendar.

The block is drawn from a 9 x9 grid.

Here is how it looks in a straight set design:

I opened up the design a bit by adding the Snowball block to it:

There’s room now, for some lovely quilting!

Let’s try another alternate block:

You never know…by trying alternate blocks, you might come up with something that you really love.  And you might not.

I deleted the star from the block, as well as the red.  Now I have a chain block to use as an alternate with the Star Crossed block:

If you are really sharp, you would notice that I also deleted most of the  nine-patches from the Star Crossed block.  That gave me three blocks to play with…the original star, a star without the nine-patches (except in the center), and the nine-patches without the star.

Another design, simple, but lovely:

I can see the above design on my table.  It doesn’t have to be a full size quilt.

Here’s how the Star Crossed quilt block looks when set on point:

Perhaps you like it better with sashing and cornerstones:

Or perhaps you like it better with more open spaces (to show off your beautiful quilting):

I think I like this one the best, but I could change my mind tomorrow.