We make quilts for all sorts of reasons. This one came under the heading of “because I wanted to”. I have long admired Lone Star quilts, generally hand pieced and traditionally quilted, but it wasn’t until I saw the Plains and Pine Big Sky Star quilt pattern, that I was moved to actually make one. This is almost an old quilt for me. I completed it about a year ago, but just hadn’t blogged about it as it was about to hit the show circuit (where it did pretty well), and I wasn’t in a place to work through what…