I’ve signed up for Craftsy classes before but I recently purchased the Creative Quilting With Your Walking Foot class with Jacquie Gering. I watched while I wrapped up on the plus sign quilt top (sneak peak below!) and I gotta say WOW! After watching through the first 2 lessons of the class I was inspired…
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Solstice Stars Sampler: the Finished Quilt
Solstice stars was completed just before Thanksgiving both quilting and binding. I machine bound the quilt because I wanted to give machine binding a try and since it was a quilt I was keeping for myself I didn’t feel like I needed to go over the top with perfection. My machine binding needs a lot…
Solstice Stars Almost Complete
After blogging about each star I got wrapped up in other posting about other projects that I had completely neglected to update on the status of my beautiful Solstice Star quilt so we are going to do a fast forward on it’s progress thus far… (Get ready for a photo progress adventure!) I decided to do…
Farmer’s Wife, meet Penny Patch
I mentioned in my penny patch post the other day that I had two Farmer’s Wife blocks in my quilt, well I added a 3rd and am so pleased with how it adds to the quilt’s layout. I think I might actually be ready to commit and get to sewing this top together. I used…
Evening Star
The final star for my sampler! I picked this one from lemons quilt other sampler. I though it was just so lovely with how different it is compared to the other stars and that it could tie together all the fabrics so nicely. If this sampler was more traditional with more defined blocks I may…
Star of Mystery
This star proved to be a bit trickier than I had expected. There was some unsewing because my base inside square didn’t line up just right and I was also smart enough to read through ALL her instructions and didn’t trim the last edges of the setting triangles until the block was 100% complete. In…
Whirling Star
So here it is, my very first foundation paper pieced quilt block. It was much easier than I thought it was going to be and I did it with a regular ruler not an “add a quarter” ruler like most of the blogs recommend. I definitely see more paper piecing in my future so I’ll…
Two Color Star
This was a pretty quick star to put together, not my favorite but as you can tell by the name the premise is pretty simple compared to the other stars: just two colors. Again I found myself in HST trimming hell but it was only a couple blocks, I guess that’s the advantage when doing…
Another Star
This star was tricky and required a bit of faith in the author especially when it got the the 1/8 measurements. I’m not great at precise blocks and my 1/4 inch seam often seems to be anything but a 1/4″ but I pushed through and was just giddy with excitement when the block came out…
Ribbon Star
I had originally planned to make this block with a solid pink interior but carelessness in reading the directions lead to it being the background color like the original tutorial indicated. In the end I think I’m more pleased with that happy accident than had I made it pink. I was very careful in cutting…