Modern Lone Star (I call it Carolina Stars) is a quilt that finally saw completion recently. I love the electric effect that a lone star design can produce. I added that little something extra by using a scallop stitch around each star in a rusty brown thread.  —Joyce Robinson

• Published in the July/August 2014 issue of McCall’s Quilting

• Quilt on-location photography by Joyce Robinson

• Quilt photo and detail by Mellisa Karlin Mahoney

• 73˝ x 73˝