These are called Friendship Stars. I learned a new skill with one of these: handquilting! I'm very excited that the stitches were mostly even, and I was able to get about 6 - 8 stitches per inch. These quilts will hopefully be used to warm preemie babies. I did these in answer to a challenge issued on the newsgroup I read, RCTQ, to make a baby quilt and donate it to a worthy cause. I initially was going to do one crib quilt, but figured I could help more babies if I made several for preemies. Besides, this way I was able to practice different techinques of quilting. One is stitched in the ditch, one is stipple quilted and the one I handquilted is done with an echo stitch around each star and then a diagonal crosshatch. Now that I've accomplished my goal of learning to handquit, my next goal is to handquilt a large one.