Hi there, I made Sue Garman's 2009 BOM for TQS. I loved making it and it has been a wonderful quilt. Her name is "June Cleaver on Acid."

I used 4 different backgrounds. Pink, Blue, Green and Lavender. I picked up many, if not most of the fabrics for the rest of the quilt as the year went on. There is definitely something to be said for having all the fabrics when you start, but I find it more fun to make it up as you go.






Enjoy the process!

Geneva

Yes, there is a photo in the May 2016 blog of Sue's Halo Star.

Renata, I was looking at Sue's blog for the muted version and couldn't find it. Did you say May of this year? I love this BOM and love to see other color choices, but do like the fabric for this year.

I agree with Renata about the peach fabric, you can still use it, but a little.

Thanks,Sharon in Colorado

Thank you so much my hubby said the peach wasn't right also. I was just afraid there would be too much contrast using a white. White is what he thinks I should use.

Your flower print is beautiful and you could pull the colors from that focus fabric to pick out your scrappy fabrics for the stars, flying geese, HSTs, etcetera. I would consider a Kona Snow (not a bright white) for your background. To me, the peach does not provide enough contrast to all that is going on in the borders. However, if you already have the peach in your stash and you have enough of it, you could wait until you get to the last outer border where, in the TQS version of it, there is the same fabric as the focus fabric in the setting triangles of the medallion and see whether the peach or the focus fabric looks best in the outer border.

I, too, saw the one Sue Garman posted on her blog in May of this year and I'm hoping to go with more muted tones, as Sue did. Haven't found my focus fabric yet, and I believe it will all hinge on that.

I'm planning on using the flower print as my focus fabric. I have had it in my stash for a while and I think it will work well. I saw Sue's on her blog when she first made it and it also had a large scale print. I'm not sure what to get for background fabric. I found this peach that I like. What do you think? I would love to purchase the kit for this but it's not in my budget. The rest of the fabrics will come from my stash. I'm thinking it will be scrappy. I will try and use the same sets of fabrics for a section like the stars or for the flying geese etc.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Sue
Upstate NY