Solids and Stars

I am hesitant to post this finished top, as I don't know if I'll keep it or gift it.  But I like to journal WHEN these things are made, and since I spent atleast 4 days doing LITTLE ELSE but working on this one, I want to get it entered into the blog archive BEFORE THE WEEK IS OVER.

I have been watching you tube videos from a young lady named Amanda Holmes, who lives in Australia.  She posted a video almost everyday during the month of May, due to the fact that she was home from work due to the pandemic.  Well, one day I spotted these star blocks on her quilt-room wall, and she mentioned them.  I was struck by the simplistic beauty of them.  She never showed the finishing of the quilt, but I caught a quick sighting of it when she did her yearly wrapup of quilts finished.   

I took her design, made my stars, making 3 more than her 9, and then wasn't happy with how traditional it looked.

 Her quilt had NO SASHING ANYWHERE, and as a square quilt, hers looked really good; but lengthening mine with an extra row changed that.  Something in me warred for a twist.  So I messed around and added a bit more of the solids, sortof off-kilter, and this is what I ended up with.  

                            I LOVE IT !

That's why I'm undecided on it's fate ! 

 ***NOTE:  In all of these photos of an entire top, there is a dark green printed star in the center of the bottom row.  Seeing the photos, I felt that it was too dark for the 'flavor' of the rest of the stars, so I replaced it.  The first photo is the finished layout.
  

Finished size of top currently is 52" x 72".  

EDIT:  I finished machine-quilting this quilt today, June 9, 2020.  Considering how to bind now.