Today Mom (Mary) and I are sewing our little hearts out on a very special quilt for a very special young man—Dakota—who is wheelchair and bed bound and absolutely loves Star Wars. We’re calling this one Dakota’s Star, and it’s a re-sized, re-scaled, and re-imagined version of my Carpenter’s Wheel (with the script completely flipped). The big goal was contrast: I pulled Star Wars prints, then put back anything with a white background or anything that read too “medium,” because I wanted that sharp pop against our mainly white/beige background fabric. I walk you through how I did the math in my notebook, how we resized the quilt to be a little shorter and a little narrower, and how the blocks are built from half-square triangles and 4 1/2" squares. I also share my fabric-mixing strategy—dividing every print into piles of four so each quadrant gets an even mix (hello, Darth Vader in every corner). I planned to use my usual webbing method for speed, but we had an epiphany: because this quilt is a rectangle (six across by seven blocks), you can’t just rotate a finished quadrant like you can with a square layout. In the end, the exploding star, the high contrast, and the “I-spy” chaos of the Star Wars prints make this quilt such a fun finish—and we even added rows of squares at the top and bottom to suit Dakota’s needs.