What is the most positive thing in your life this week? Family? Faith? Friends? Or, perhaps those moments of blessed creativity?

Star Web is the next patchwork group in my 2024 modern sampler, Positivities, which I am excited to share with you. This group marks the importance of connection, community and companionship to our thriving. Yes, I’m talking about friendship!

As with my North Star block, the Star Web group is sewn with a combination of solids and scraps. That’s my concept for the entire quilt. You can follow my lead by using a base of 9 solid fabrics (including the background color) for your Positivities quilt. The pattern will prompt you when to use each solid and when to use scraps. This way, your base solids will be spread out over the quilt, creating harmony, while your fun scraps will give your quilt a unique personality.

Star Web is sewn via foundation paper piecing, which is a technique that I will be teaching participants in the Positivites block of the month. This group is really simplistic foundation paper piecing (FPP), so it is easy, brainless sewing. Sometimes that really hits the spot, right?

I HEART MY FRIENDS! I couldn’t do this life thing without them, and I don’t recommend trying. We are each of us a shining star, but when you find your place in a constellation you become part of a larger, even lovelier phenomenon. Invest time and energy in your star web. Meaningful friendships are totally worth it and all too easy to overlook in our work-oriented, family-oriented busy lives.

Now that I can set this Star Web below North Star, you begin to get a feel for Positivities quilt. The combination of 4-point star and circle elements is a design theme, as are simple squares. I can’t wait to show you more! Stay tuned and let me know if you’re thinking about joining in. I appreciate that positive vote and will make sure you don’t miss the big release in January. Yay!