Wishing for Watermelon

Working with the Rainbow Scrap Challenge colors for July --

Watermelon Pink and Green - has me thirsting for a bite of watermelon!

Watermelon Seeds

Look, I even have watermelon fabric in there! I think I'll put watermelon on tomorrow's grocery list ...

After making 16-patches from an assortment of 1-1/2" strips, I decided they would make nice centers for Ohio Stars. The centers finish at 4" which made it perfect for me to use assorted 2-1/2" strips as star points.

Watermelon in Ohio

I used my Companion Angle to cut the star points and background from 2-1/2" strips. (In case you've never used one, the large numbers represent the finished size of the quarter square; the little numbers indicate the size of strip required.)

I am using this black remnant as sashing  (those circles remind me of water rings on furniture) ...

I thought about bringing in green as sashing, but none of my scrap greens really did justice to the blocks. Maybe I can bring green into the border, or at least an inner border, or cornerstones ...

Sew I spent most of Monday making stars. Maybe I should have taken a break ...

Oops!

Because I had a limited amount of the star background I had to stop at 16 blocks. The fact I had only made 17 centers was also a determining factor! I finished all 16 blocks today with only one Frankenstar.

Last of the scraps - one Frankenstar

Tomorrow I'll finish up the sashing and contemplate my navel, uh I mean my border options.

I have a crazy idea floating in my head to use some triangles I ended up not using in the stars. Stay tuned.