figuring it out

i'm well on my way to having the quilt started now. it took some finaggling because the pattern in the magazine wasn't working out right. so i had to make some squares bigger and some squares smaller. strange i know, but it worked and for a moment i felt like a genius. i think the lady that put the pattern in there didn't give all the details to the pattern. kinda like those women that give you a recipe but tweek it just a litte bit so that it will NEVER really taste as good as theirs. mmmhmmm...you know what i'm talking about. anyway, i've had this magazine for 5 years for the sole purpose of doing this pattern. that's how long i've been wanting to do it. but it's an "intermediate" pattern. ya, i bet, with the wrong recipe. here's the first star. each star is made up of 4 blocks, so i have 44 more blocks and 11 stars to go. what do you think? does it need more of anything so far? you know i'll be posting more pictures as i go but i'm just so excited to actually have the first star of MY baby's quilt done.