Smoothing Iron or Minnie's Stars or Road to Florida -- It's a Finish!

It's a finish!

83 x 90

The top was finished back in October 2019. 

 This quilt was inspired by a vintage quilt made by Minnie Lee Deakins and is a Quiltfolk pattern called Minnie's Stars.  (At one point Quiltfolk had a monthly pattern subscription for a surprise vintage pattern but that only lasted a few months. I think they now sell the patterns online?)

 Anonymous previously left me a blog comment that mentioned the block is known as Road to Florida and also lately named Smoothing Iron.  I can see how it could be called Smoothing Iron, a name I really like, but not sure about the road to Florida as a block name. There seems to be a lot of vintage blocks that start with "road to..."  

I started the quilt because I had quite a few small chunks of blue TOTs (tone on tone fabrics) I wanted to  use up. I decided on blues for the triangles and warm colors for the triangle centers. I was going to just make the quilt in reds, blues and yellows but soon found I had to add some oranges and pinks for the center triangles.  I didn't have enough of my blue chunks to finish the blocks either and soon after I blogged that I would need to purchase fabric to continue a quilty friend sent me a surprise package of blue TOTs.  That had me calling the quilt "Out of the Blue". 

I quilted it on my DSM (Brother PQ1500SL) with blue thread. 

I used a few different blue TOTs for the binding. 

The back.

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