tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29710400191839891102024-03-18T02:48:41.236-07:00Quilting through Rose-colored Trifocals!Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.comBlogger582125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-5640324727350012952024-03-07T12:24:00.000-08:002024-03-07T12:24:12.649-08:00Quilts to Share<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Sometime in the late 1980's, my husband, youngest child and I were on a short weekend camping trip to Western Pennsylvania. As I recall the two of them were out, perhaps on a bike ride and I was on my own for a bit -- maybe birding, maybe walking, maybe stitching?? I was in a reflective mood triggered by something I no longer recall, but what I do remember is deciding that if I was going to continue to "work" as a quiltmaker/shop owner/teacher I needed to start being more generous with my skills. I loved my work and did it mostly for myself, because it was so enjoyable - but I felt at the time there needed to be more than personal enjoyment.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And so began a new commitment to sharing quilts as often as possible. Over the past thirty-plus years, the count of "quilts to share" that I've either produced myself or organized a group of quilters to produce is a lost number but I'm sure there have been hundreds.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Last week I shared a couple batches of wheelchair size lap robes - an easy size for me to handle in spite of the increasing restrictions of my arthritis! I can experiment with ideas and block designs in a small way and quilt them without crippling myself -- that means I can keep stitching!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitc1oOvcxdn0cWPCgkjDSsPG00xGTLvW7HSplSuf2b3lHcoftl5ZZJrGavKka40uFjEeouD_8NCqJ9BrbaGhzegzFC2YVvEh8_NPyxjtwY_QLLqhG5Y3mMZqsZjFjBJ9RNswMLS_-QF31wB-FdY7zACsyOzHfLgEy3OC4Y6MYd5MZeMzeS_Nm49xM-Bn_N/s3120/IMG_20240227_141602_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitc1oOvcxdn0cWPCgkjDSsPG00xGTLvW7HSplSuf2b3lHcoftl5ZZJrGavKka40uFjEeouD_8NCqJ9BrbaGhzegzFC2YVvEh8_NPyxjtwY_QLLqhG5Y3mMZqsZjFjBJ9RNswMLS_-QF31wB-FdY7zACsyOzHfLgEy3OC4Y6MYd5MZeMzeS_Nm49xM-Bn_N/w640-h640/IMG_20240227_141602_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today another quilt I donated to Homegrown National Park went up for auction!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's my version of <a href="https://www.pamalamajodesigns.com/" target="_blank">Pamalamajo Designs</a> Whirly Weeds quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Even though I don't enjoy machine applique, I did enjoy making this quilt since it merged my enjoyment of nature and making and sharing quilts!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3v9Rd63f4cB4S0yDBnG3e_cGQ2vVEF-Dwkl8Tsm898g9LEUzeCEmOWOkJ1mlLSuelJOb5wlPjVYkbkhyTKePB_PhhTf50AjaVf80gOTktuKUN9wNXIIC-a_pOci_NuCaiAAsQpz3K9TSwiUK2VZK9Fq49k1_fUYMLkeDWnTgreEps0w6NEwAKbY-5ow3t/s4464/whirlyweeds1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4464" height="524" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3v9Rd63f4cB4S0yDBnG3e_cGQ2vVEF-Dwkl8Tsm898g9LEUzeCEmOWOkJ1mlLSuelJOb5wlPjVYkbkhyTKePB_PhhTf50AjaVf80gOTktuKUN9wNXIIC-a_pOci_NuCaiAAsQpz3K9TSwiUK2VZK9Fq49k1_fUYMLkeDWnTgreEps0w6NEwAKbY-5ow3t/w640-h524/whirlyweeds1.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I donated it to the first Homegrown National Park Auction which began today and ends on March 17. The quilt is item #26 of fifty-two (really great) items.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anyone can bid --<a href="https://secure.qgiv.com/event/homegrownnationalparkauction/" target="_blank"> HERE IS THE LINK.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYv9ElBP8u-jRUmGqEkwv3kQlXIQPM71XruvZc36p0QQJtl_p9kLiFQ7b1G9af623KD5JhQ2BZeUZ7zrCq3vwiD5H1zkD8LhmRLhPYr__lDaU9WAfYH6fivTYTnZnOgl-j_fNohoL0IpfmZGzMwwxMYJvzSGBiXdSjD-fD_nEGTcpn6mKBqdZNJW2UbyjL/s3324/whirlyweeds3.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3324" data-original-width="3053" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYv9ElBP8u-jRUmGqEkwv3kQlXIQPM71XruvZc36p0QQJtl_p9kLiFQ7b1G9af623KD5JhQ2BZeUZ7zrCq3vwiD5H1zkD8LhmRLhPYr__lDaU9WAfYH6fivTYTnZnOgl-j_fNohoL0IpfmZGzMwwxMYJvzSGBiXdSjD-fD_nEGTcpn6mKBqdZNJW2UbyjL/w368-h400/whirlyweeds3.JPG" width="368" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you are one of the growing number of native plant gardeners in the USA, you may already know about the Homegrown National Park movement triggered by the books of Doug Tallamy, a professor at the University of Delaware. His book, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/douglas-w-tallamy/bringing-nature-home/9780881929928/?lens=timber-press" target="_blank">Bringing Nature Home</a>, has opened the hearts and minds of thousands of Americans about the dangers of diminishing natural diversity.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23pUjU6r3QTAs-wlT2T_ja8Xbqp7bAxLaWb96MD1YaycqWTTC4yh7lEYTIHMe0YvhRKNycWMGxiI9HCr92tiCaZydDp0QQ_elKTDELB5lPUSaH-KdWNZL9Nr117vZOVXhyphenhyphenaK0lUVVnXBQtDDEDBLlhMpWfqmZjiKpiDTFGQMSkPFtTp2QwTBxdjaqzEoj/s2997/whirlyweeds4.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2997" data-original-width="2954" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh23pUjU6r3QTAs-wlT2T_ja8Xbqp7bAxLaWb96MD1YaycqWTTC4yh7lEYTIHMe0YvhRKNycWMGxiI9HCr92tiCaZydDp0QQ_elKTDELB5lPUSaH-KdWNZL9Nr117vZOVXhyphenhyphenaK0lUVVnXBQtDDEDBLlhMpWfqmZjiKpiDTFGQMSkPFtTp2QwTBxdjaqzEoj/w394-h400/whirlyweeds4.JPG" width="394" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Instagram account @homegrownnationalpark has almost 70,000 followers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Facebook page has 22,000 followers.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the <a href="https://homegrownnationalpark.org/" target="_blank">website is full of native plant resources</a> tailored to every region of the USA.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqjIaaCQx8g" target="_blank">HERE IS A LINK to my favorite Doug Tallamy talk</a> -- I hope you'll listen if you haven't already heard him speak -- his ideas are compelling and doable and lots of other folks agree!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Bring nature into your backyard or patio or balcony!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_Bg4hyphenhyphenie1W1NVB1DsCQc32OeqT_y6ds7nJUQPGTYO6iltMBH6KUUuo9FQuNoaTuh2u3_ahfZQND6ot9JsfJEZmQcSR_vHrpXggK6UwNdO3RhVMeyTLXEGJNsXPFLh2LD4NiSUNHG3eT8GCefRYiXt9oqF19zplXCHwTNk5sONBUKV8z6x0S6llEWX_uW/s5472/P1050436%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiH_Bg4hyphenhyphenie1W1NVB1DsCQc32OeqT_y6ds7nJUQPGTYO6iltMBH6KUUuo9FQuNoaTuh2u3_ahfZQND6ot9JsfJEZmQcSR_vHrpXggK6UwNdO3RhVMeyTLXEGJNsXPFLh2LD4NiSUNHG3eT8GCefRYiXt9oqF19zplXCHwTNk5sONBUKV8z6x0S6llEWX_uW/w640-h426/P1050436%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">And then "get on the map" -- my 60' by 200' suburban lot is part of the 5000 acres in Ohio where homeowners have started to rejuvenate natural biodiversity by planting native trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs. I'm on a mission to pass the 75% native plants mark in my own yard by the end of this summer. My casual observations of native insects -- bees, wasps, beetles, and butterflies -- has increased over the past three years thanks to native flowering plants which makes my yard more fun. I have more fireflies in summer and more birds year round than adjacent yards thanks to the changes I'm making in my gardens and yard.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Homegrown National Park is a rallying platform for this movement so check it out!! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;">Mary</p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-11286680223340175482024-02-24T10:43:00.000-08:002024-02-24T10:43:34.975-08:00Alternative Piecing -- The Esther Block<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A warm welcome to visitors from the Esther Block Sew Along! My name is Mary Huey and at this point, I'm a retired quilt making teacher and shop owner who is now committed to puttering my way through a very deep fabric stash!! I enjoy machine piecing more than just about anything because it's served me so well for so many years. As I settle into retirement I do find myself doing and enjoying more hand stitching including English paper piecing. Late in 2023, a local hand-stitching group to which I belong was exploring possible new projects and we found the Esther block and the sister-duo of Laura and Sara leading it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJrTKgk18V-U16zK7Exp8Fakv_tWNjJlo-HNhgKeY90VEJT8Qd1WLNeRHkScF4XLLV4zFTzyfgHrzMeNaccHJaOCIgDeFvTY5eeSNmQ8fyF1NeR3Is8g5MfoXyGNo2KDg_t0fK9QqYfx5m0ZvjyqN_ihZxl2REn5y6lvXspahFdLyArJr_gSdBIfbmCI5/s3120/IMG_20240201_100553_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCJrTKgk18V-U16zK7Exp8Fakv_tWNjJlo-HNhgKeY90VEJT8Qd1WLNeRHkScF4XLLV4zFTzyfgHrzMeNaccHJaOCIgDeFvTY5eeSNmQ8fyF1NeR3Is8g5MfoXyGNo2KDg_t0fK9QqYfx5m0ZvjyqN_ihZxl2REn5y6lvXspahFdLyArJr_gSdBIfbmCI5/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_100553_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(My readers can learn more about the Esther block and read the monthly block design challenges over at <a href="https://sbcchis.wixsite.com/estherblocksewalong" target="_blank">https://sbcchis.wixsite.com/estherblocksewalong</a>)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I decided to test the block for size using the machine-piecing technique for set-in seams that I've taught for the past decade and posted my block on Instagram -- Laura and Sara inquired and we made a plan for me to share my process with all of you this month.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm going to focus on how I pieced the Esther block but if you are interested in a longer explanation of how I came to use a chain-piecing strategy with set-in seams, click<a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2014/01/set-in-piecing-simplified.html" target="_blank"> HERE</a> for a previous post that shares that piece of my history.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I am a huge Marti Michell template fan -- okay, I was an educator for the company and I have most of the templates -- so my first stop is always "the templates". Below you can see six templates -- all from Marti's Set G -- which I used. Notice the holes drilled in each corner -- perfect for marking "stop and start" points for hand or machine piecing. Also, notice all the pointy corners on the shapes are blunted so you trim them as you are rotary cutting the shapes -- adds a tiny bit of time to the cutting but when you start to align the pieces, its a breeze and well worth that corner trim!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FkaYwyVyBk8-KFcLbF1hvh9T7K54Zu3kfJmucbk-d1vKEF5KglLHocEwCfyVrEEXpury0amilDWyQz55Pt1inINvEUyAucURiBgbnvTlp1qVzxWLmECVlFmDvgDfji6EsGXBsldrAsO5PVcKR3X9kgMAkTWjQJmCV2LZcjjXyHlFeQtL4YI__No4TuvQ/s3120/IMG_20240201_084937_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3FkaYwyVyBk8-KFcLbF1hvh9T7K54Zu3kfJmucbk-d1vKEF5KglLHocEwCfyVrEEXpury0amilDWyQz55Pt1inINvEUyAucURiBgbnvTlp1qVzxWLmECVlFmDvgDfji6EsGXBsldrAsO5PVcKR3X9kgMAkTWjQJmCV2LZcjjXyHlFeQtL4YI__No4TuvQ/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_084937_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here is everything I need to stitch one block -- looks just like it would for EPP piecing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatCkvDP0wboq0GRFu6FOHp7iwgQfL_IjKBbWFLwV2CPYa0iqDkonhJE6aGLa5Ee2_p2k1CkjQu4OB3-grPIHEXzCzq9H-OYIhbZAynuujejQB7bZJfoxO2SfViGwnO1IaGu-pjmBMb1E7vPTFzX9bEKG7ab3UYYBbX3ZrQFA0veA0JZiyvb0hfQnbU4zI/s3120/IMG_20240201_085226_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjatCkvDP0wboq0GRFu6FOHp7iwgQfL_IjKBbWFLwV2CPYa0iqDkonhJE6aGLa5Ee2_p2k1CkjQu4OB3-grPIHEXzCzq9H-OYIhbZAynuujejQB7bZJfoxO2SfViGwnO1IaGu-pjmBMb1E7vPTFzX9bEKG7ab3UYYBbX3ZrQFA0veA0JZiyvb0hfQnbU4zI/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_085226_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ready to machine piece. Of course, I'm using a 1/4" presser foot and it helps if the foot is open back to the needle so you can see where to stop but exact stops aren't as important as I use to think. What is important is not to go beyond the "stop" dot.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I going to start by assembling three pairs of the center gold gems stitching from the sharp end (center of block)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaI3w3Ed3uHrLHM0rVEoMKsr1LOT9X0EsdKjuN4D_DYzvzFf69ieYboOnv0gOTAc7UjbOncxCJTMh8DO10lD1Opy9_OSTZfSJS0ipSLbucoNoBqtJHAveNqjEtjx9TJG0SSfqnh6kseIVW_O9C0wBCGvzBfDw3T97fYso_M_dIMpKejo1ZzufFFkMOVAq/s3120/IMG_20240201_085636.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXaI3w3Ed3uHrLHM0rVEoMKsr1LOT9X0EsdKjuN4D_DYzvzFf69ieYboOnv0gOTAc7UjbOncxCJTMh8DO10lD1Opy9_OSTZfSJS0ipSLbucoNoBqtJHAveNqjEtjx9TJG0SSfqnh6kseIVW_O9C0wBCGvzBfDw3T97fYso_M_dIMpKejo1ZzufFFkMOVAq/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_085636.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">to the "dot" (which I transferred to the fabric using the template's holes) and stop with my needle down. As I said, years of using this technique has taught me that stopping just short of the "dot" is okay.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Bv70lJaeQ1d50RIGFEpVbOoKoFvRLqdAxSYINe1LqOvAxKUYe7znyu6nZ6PNx9jxfwzcVD77fnYkbPhvBoOXa71seLM1KcUohCniSSZaEGI26L99IPUb1aInkgVEju-NP9Ebr8r2He8CvhEQyubUiQgwZof0I0fKFs69fMBgb694GQdn9RqlZlT4A2cz/s3120/IMG_20240201_090207_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Bv70lJaeQ1d50RIGFEpVbOoKoFvRLqdAxSYINe1LqOvAxKUYe7znyu6nZ6PNx9jxfwzcVD77fnYkbPhvBoOXa71seLM1KcUohCniSSZaEGI26L99IPUb1aInkgVEju-NP9Ebr8r2He8CvhEQyubUiQgwZof0I0fKFs69fMBgb694GQdn9RqlZlT4A2cz/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090207_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then with the needle down, I'm going to lift the presser foot and pivot clockwise the fabric so the left edge of my presser foot is aligned with the edge adjacent to my seam.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvI5iJPbDdYzvuZBhTBXpkfk2pkNqVN5fRaM_7Lg3_mQVjDJuMyrWlECXv45P3KQA_hqlCii_4S6dQS_nk63qhvMhujwjaEAJ5EgmKQ31kiIcBY50ZGs7z-v_Ug-wc2Bp6Cf0CPbIFx0RM7QjL4TMd07UkRZ_WofIFzQ7jbTUGWZMGzo4-Y_9KRjPd0ko/s3120/IMG_20240201_090220_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvI5iJPbDdYzvuZBhTBXpkfk2pkNqVN5fRaM_7Lg3_mQVjDJuMyrWlECXv45P3KQA_hqlCii_4S6dQS_nk63qhvMhujwjaEAJ5EgmKQ31kiIcBY50ZGs7z-v_Ug-wc2Bp6Cf0CPbIFx0RM7QjL4TMd07UkRZ_WofIFzQ7jbTUGWZMGzo4-Y_9KRjPd0ko/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090220_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This pivot allows me to stitch off this pair and onto the next pair until all three are stitched.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugW6Jp5wIS9cS8ef6k3mCmMGhmG2Zju-H8-Gv9PnSSimQ7RxtlgI6UJR9mErSLwrDPxNp0hmO5r8G1ldOTcSWmpvVqa9rN7TG7YARG0M90KfU9jMhh2DUGUlTW88d5y4DEA3Xa823ef0TCuv9uOy5UrReqonyACLG2eYiWbui7cGlaxQm8oajUj51VkeP/s3120/IMG_20240201_090259.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiugW6Jp5wIS9cS8ef6k3mCmMGhmG2Zju-H8-Gv9PnSSimQ7RxtlgI6UJR9mErSLwrDPxNp0hmO5r8G1ldOTcSWmpvVqa9rN7TG7YARG0M90KfU9jMhh2DUGUlTW88d5y4DEA3Xa823ef0TCuv9uOy5UrReqonyACLG2eYiWbui7cGlaxQm8oajUj51VkeP/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090259.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the three pairs of center gems are together, I start to add a hexagon to each pair (no pressing yet). In this picture, the hexagon is in place and I'm going to come onto it at the left end of the seam.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HanrWgFo5nM2qxGj1gKsxd2cFu_ZIv6UqRhTariT2lb18ZXxBDlnAxws1iQn153Ayvy4bHeI2vHx7zA4ImUDFWOrLngP8LA_02jKw9RHW0rQbxcCfD6Yd7HRsbYA3pk-f2s2uiYOO2EpOBU9XsyIVRWYz0TZlaulLmjSnLhJTaN792F7OZ6X0pU_qjsM/s3120/IMG_20240201_090448.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1HanrWgFo5nM2qxGj1gKsxd2cFu_ZIv6UqRhTariT2lb18ZXxBDlnAxws1iQn153Ayvy4bHeI2vHx7zA4ImUDFWOrLngP8LA_02jKw9RHW0rQbxcCfD6Yd7HRsbYA3pk-f2s2uiYOO2EpOBU9XsyIVRWYz0TZlaulLmjSnLhJTaN792F7OZ6X0pU_qjsM/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090448.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Coming onto it at the left end -- but only stitch about 3 stitches. Time for another stop</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFn21JXVow1Z7DqgT8as827bg_ElD4rmZ4erSAXLzlG7142v07lFxvhUt3VYerPcyeIs-U1iGQhxi_C6tT0pa8XJ1R65MZNQcXthrZ263FOZhlOK5ib8qqBk9R6oQK20CGX2hYukBwdJQTOy5ud6ciLimHVerDjJMLediFEsEm9-hxMAL1MThPiOEkOvr/s3120/IMG_20240201_090504_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLFn21JXVow1Z7DqgT8as827bg_ElD4rmZ4erSAXLzlG7142v07lFxvhUt3VYerPcyeIs-U1iGQhxi_C6tT0pa8XJ1R65MZNQcXthrZ263FOZhlOK5ib8qqBk9R6oQK20CGX2hYukBwdJQTOy5ud6ciLimHVerDjJMLediFEsEm9-hxMAL1MThPiOEkOvr/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090504_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and pivot clockwise to line up the right edge of the presser foot with the seam edge.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKpnpR3-t4xUPdrQ0rjJmf62LXhwfkxZPyasXHDrEql0C2IFyC1xFg6KUOQzIqI2YEoDC9ZPKi75V_ZlrsucjJZF1bDDDHYIojlKhXeqeyR84DfGlPB4oHdDg90SG7PkJ_qzqTJEqy243l7YxnYzDEUMXv8Lx6aQPZhEk668AzITjV5eMOvXw0cCNQWz_/s3120/IMG_20240201_090512_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXKpnpR3-t4xUPdrQ0rjJmf62LXhwfkxZPyasXHDrEql0C2IFyC1xFg6KUOQzIqI2YEoDC9ZPKi75V_ZlrsucjJZF1bDDDHYIojlKhXeqeyR84DfGlPB4oHdDg90SG7PkJ_qzqTJEqy243l7YxnYzDEUMXv8Lx6aQPZhEk668AzITjV5eMOvXw0cCNQWz_/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090512_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stitch the seam, stop, pivot and I'm ready to stitch off this set.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZbDTDJGN6R-hbuMbaGuIOjStLvQmdM4gACgP2hyphenhyphen_UgrjE0MaqApJ69SyaW01kXstu3WkeoaZaS8khJpAhqW7onG8WiLu61QjDvAlrQGYvkZZh5hMQ-pLX2CKXy3tkxLTle5xdoU0gZaLA3jELp6weGZMhCEyiGTBcq9wphnImb_yejPnm9m87z5rrZWp/s3120/IMG_20240201_090532_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguZbDTDJGN6R-hbuMbaGuIOjStLvQmdM4gACgP2hyphenhyphen_UgrjE0MaqApJ69SyaW01kXstu3WkeoaZaS8khJpAhqW7onG8WiLu61QjDvAlrQGYvkZZh5hMQ-pLX2CKXy3tkxLTle5xdoU0gZaLA3jELp6weGZMhCEyiGTBcq9wphnImb_yejPnm9m87z5rrZWp/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090532_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is what the unit looks like after.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIxPPm8YG5ZNPiMb_SwsVEsLZEXSxlYV1w0hHmF6mYO8PGRgvC-WcsrPLo3iKF1att8tslXjnbaB7wo9_2TJsYloQuMkRXkKtIABEPXOjqMjYyKudpHYdHqjux12N_DBzg38jRMvRZAdHfbXcl7-IynYwR1xdBsCdI8uHA_p1GMPGm1W7A3ymSgOYuPbU/s3120/IMG_20240201_090715.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtIxPPm8YG5ZNPiMb_SwsVEsLZEXSxlYV1w0hHmF6mYO8PGRgvC-WcsrPLo3iKF1att8tslXjnbaB7wo9_2TJsYloQuMkRXkKtIABEPXOjqMjYyKudpHYdHqjux12N_DBzg38jRMvRZAdHfbXcl7-IynYwR1xdBsCdI8uHA_p1GMPGm1W7A3ymSgOYuPbU/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090715.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm still chain-piecing as you can see under my presser foot. I've just clipped the set in my hand off the end of the chain and am setting it up to sew another seam on the hexagon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshFK4OoUwVZ_4X9hCTu1bu1IcvcNrCoHIo9l9j2pGtVTVf2E_KaBAXk0nz5N6b1LZU6pH4fZk6FExPVGdyEPnZFLQ39OpuRFN2mfvOG5UmTB_Ycw4B71GFtgIEvOZ0pqZ5MtNJq8Ti4qouLitSM3U9NAzS0P1v7udGFMomP-Vinj_XZpJL_Z-MYsPtbvE/s3120/IMG_20240201_090740_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhshFK4OoUwVZ_4X9hCTu1bu1IcvcNrCoHIo9l9j2pGtVTVf2E_KaBAXk0nz5N6b1LZU6pH4fZk6FExPVGdyEPnZFLQ39OpuRFN2mfvOG5UmTB_Ycw4B71GFtgIEvOZ0pqZ5MtNJq8Ti4qouLitSM3U9NAzS0P1v7udGFMomP-Vinj_XZpJL_Z-MYsPtbvE/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090740_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Repeat the sew-on, pivot, stitch the seam, pivot, sew-off </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89cvrgMH_ocfjw2-jXAKykJu3fMMgEEAP8AzNGte5YkM542M4R7f3hktg_UGmP9nfNejwDBUV5FMGqs5yqpoKxNjWlPohz5fyA4vif_ZPPsb8CFLAOayUj6n0awNkU1c9DVx1pAfc8hzH5h_iUkK1zCLJZU-VxSsm7MQMRbBWWbDEiPCjqS85xqMl9Je2/s3120/IMG_20240201_090851_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg89cvrgMH_ocfjw2-jXAKykJu3fMMgEEAP8AzNGte5YkM542M4R7f3hktg_UGmP9nfNejwDBUV5FMGqs5yqpoKxNjWlPohz5fyA4vif_ZPPsb8CFLAOayUj6n0awNkU1c9DVx1pAfc8hzH5h_iUkK1zCLJZU-VxSsm7MQMRbBWWbDEiPCjqS85xqMl9Je2/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090851_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">until all three units are assembled.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIZFVE8LUbDKbU7HvV0TDXI9vGR59DxKcm9JdgnJML-xRsaM3Ar01gYF9cCaaEXgXF9XLxICcFpLuT7YSE9FpJdVCOfw-N6M5BeliOxpK7xEOALN1Gqjme_rilSxSfPHwjN1WbePU2_RnYea1BcHR3SkA8SoMBRKUWACQPmliYn7WXe-ZC0yDl34bk_Y32/s3120/IMG_20240201_090900.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIZFVE8LUbDKbU7HvV0TDXI9vGR59DxKcm9JdgnJML-xRsaM3Ar01gYF9cCaaEXgXF9XLxICcFpLuT7YSE9FpJdVCOfw-N6M5BeliOxpK7xEOALN1Gqjme_rilSxSfPHwjN1WbePU2_RnYea1BcHR3SkA8SoMBRKUWACQPmliYn7WXe-ZC0yDl34bk_Y32/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_090900.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now you can press to suit your preferences but each unit needs to be done identically.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioo8OKBk_WpNuuT62UEJO9UhcYHLhjHyLOsyXfeRWPUiqfFgqbqkocniVVgGQKLmzOld-ob3QUNTk9XstSkMVXlmy0ULsYz_Y6WIP60lWoeXa82whrM78WEZXASotbM3jJmBQHd8QdsU0z5md0u9xo4upu8ZaV4iE7jnfoAN-O1fkz6NtNO8Nmgsd_-SPd/s3120/IMG_20240201_091354.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioo8OKBk_WpNuuT62UEJO9UhcYHLhjHyLOsyXfeRWPUiqfFgqbqkocniVVgGQKLmzOld-ob3QUNTk9XstSkMVXlmy0ULsYz_Y6WIP60lWoeXa82whrM78WEZXASotbM3jJmBQHd8QdsU0z5md0u9xo4upu8ZaV4iE7jnfoAN-O1fkz6NtNO8Nmgsd_-SPd/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_091354.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And check those intersections on the right side! Perfect and secure!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Thanks to the "sew-off" step, these corners will<b> <i><u>never</u></i> </b>pull loose.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2x4tc1aBKaWc21xGYIebCrkpp5WwWPyhTlh0j_AhTbsBPCJ5yMuR3vj0zBCBjPU86OiP0bQCaoYID2N8TJLh7rtfE6naHFarGMTp_lSMHhAWYpQzBGO0KgjyVXGMpKMDh_G-JpaHjmya1NwSP_4G-puL0zin4EEZsGYeXQROEDRAe8drZ9sL4jdie-iwL/s3120/IMG_20240201_091024_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2x4tc1aBKaWc21xGYIebCrkpp5WwWPyhTlh0j_AhTbsBPCJ5yMuR3vj0zBCBjPU86OiP0bQCaoYID2N8TJLh7rtfE6naHFarGMTp_lSMHhAWYpQzBGO0KgjyVXGMpKMDh_G-JpaHjmya1NwSP_4G-puL0zin4EEZsGYeXQROEDRAe8drZ9sL4jdie-iwL/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_091024_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next, I stitched the three center units together </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMN_IVJu6gbBYb1H94yQ2_l8cTJYLZxrvsr3zMiIQd5S7fI90p1hXhceBDKJC-ZQEuAopEpV6T3h9c-UzMyZz4kyv4B6DtPSis0SQmxMB5Ic2XbXud2liC0fJIzjjawvCJonOqRHlS_ZbrL6O5MUXF91JUYA8kj949JAznH31z8Ycf6ZUMZyhvBbOlRt3c/s3120/IMG_20240201_091703_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMN_IVJu6gbBYb1H94yQ2_l8cTJYLZxrvsr3zMiIQd5S7fI90p1hXhceBDKJC-ZQEuAopEpV6T3h9c-UzMyZz4kyv4B6DtPSis0SQmxMB5Ic2XbXud2liC0fJIzjjawvCJonOqRHlS_ZbrL6O5MUXF91JUYA8kj949JAznH31z8Ycf6ZUMZyhvBbOlRt3c/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_091703_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and then add in the remaining hexagons. Again, I'm going to put off pressing until I get a bit farther. I've found it's easier to keep the edge of a piece away from a seam if it's not pressed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB0uvhjU6oT2-qWAViBmRbrPc3Y60TleMerzSAOEfJvSyklggkBrUNW5MjC8pTllmaiNWZCYCEQq-VD_9gvU4iG6ljnyjGH4k3gQ2nWhBt2pTiYvFz0fId2690Ky3ySSFbPUXxTEkbDKB29iqxEMzMFdqsz-fZnNQi0cNusXcGCxQ5xRRNj9dRGG6k65m/s3120/IMG_20240201_092508_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCB0uvhjU6oT2-qWAViBmRbrPc3Y60TleMerzSAOEfJvSyklggkBrUNW5MjC8pTllmaiNWZCYCEQq-VD_9gvU4iG6ljnyjGH4k3gQ2nWhBt2pTiYvFz0fId2690Ky3ySSFbPUXxTEkbDKB29iqxEMzMFdqsz-fZnNQi0cNusXcGCxQ5xRRNj9dRGG6k65m/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_092508_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I also have a stack of miscellaneous sew-offs ready for when I get to the end of an assembly section. Right now, it's half-square triangle sets for some scrappy star blocks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnwaoqMT7EiZ7WAzieEYqervDXvfzgFzVTkhWBKXNGxd1XtntMwWWSE0tjHGO0AoMCBaLP02vJWEh0Nczs7iic62UZTcOhglMFzmK8vMSL-qIW0mAR-ITZqKfCCetGSxl9wfPpMwRd2c8YLjWKGVmoj6kClorkCnlF0pU2RRxtuGf84-SOF9Ua8LRdRrW/s3120/IMG_20240201_092648.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBnwaoqMT7EiZ7WAzieEYqervDXvfzgFzVTkhWBKXNGxd1XtntMwWWSE0tjHGO0AoMCBaLP02vJWEh0Nczs7iic62UZTcOhglMFzmK8vMSL-qIW0mAR-ITZqKfCCetGSxl9wfPpMwRd2c8YLjWKGVmoj6kClorkCnlF0pU2RRxtuGf84-SOF9Ua8LRdRrW/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_092648.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next I insert the half-hexagons -- three seams for each one so lots of sew-offs needed!<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6jGlqZqn_xXkHXjqcsQHeYFYOan-XjexY_f_DNLnSsDBRwxmiF4EIyJmCyBCfFLYra4o6wpd7CZlPvL-skQCv3BjtfIxc95EXnIuqtJ3bwsHjrSV7qtNtNe3RJ_Xe02sMCVhhO3l8FLL9IJiFVoKXmrNBPGCEmcCHsjkoWCTWq12e_z6ROAnVEGXgoCO/s3120/IMG_20240201_093102.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv6jGlqZqn_xXkHXjqcsQHeYFYOan-XjexY_f_DNLnSsDBRwxmiF4EIyJmCyBCfFLYra4o6wpd7CZlPvL-skQCv3BjtfIxc95EXnIuqtJ3bwsHjrSV7qtNtNe3RJ_Xe02sMCVhhO3l8FLL9IJiFVoKXmrNBPGCEmcCHsjkoWCTWq12e_z6ROAnVEGXgoCO/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_093102.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I stitch opposite sides of each half-hexagon first and then come back to do the center seam so it's easier to line up the edges of the pieces.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMR1JmBi_pSmcrADNGrJoqEiD3QMGsDm7_b5hU0CVvW82e8AdLCegiBdgqCjyLln9dg6dJSh7pLJ1m-BinEVMMirpuiEifZVLaeRxSpOw7HzUGFwNZUaHaI9y6uTlDXLJOJennLFs4Jed1IX5fG1nr6UTzXvgji6s_cErlmEn-uPi4CihEsTgT-IMkkvd/s3120/IMG_20240201_093055.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeMR1JmBi_pSmcrADNGrJoqEiD3QMGsDm7_b5hU0CVvW82e8AdLCegiBdgqCjyLln9dg6dJSh7pLJ1m-BinEVMMirpuiEifZVLaeRxSpOw7HzUGFwNZUaHaI9y6uTlDXLJOJennLFs4Jed1IX5fG1nr6UTzXvgji6s_cErlmEn-uPi4CihEsTgT-IMkkvd/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_093055.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One done!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AZGxEN_xK8BSF53BfLI7WAD0AMuUvt2mzUpMffCwgnshESzWnc0N7SU8BanKwZYiJvsagQSpeUaC_mT81BwTEf0IR17_Lyu3EGO_HWeXPBY-a-eAatS39jqqjwze4IOjNzEs4jzRxdI9OCk2nmERhNuebm-Vn7yo4lvQ_WOhQseRNAX0MmWbe3vOkxU3/s3120/IMG_20240201_092738.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1AZGxEN_xK8BSF53BfLI7WAD0AMuUvt2mzUpMffCwgnshESzWnc0N7SU8BanKwZYiJvsagQSpeUaC_mT81BwTEf0IR17_Lyu3EGO_HWeXPBY-a-eAatS39jqqjwze4IOjNzEs4jzRxdI9OCk2nmERhNuebm-Vn7yo4lvQ_WOhQseRNAX0MmWbe3vOkxU3/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_092738.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once all the half-hexagons are inserted, I'm finished with the set-in seams </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S4th52iQkplqYYCMAbkVnwNZ6JOoEcm5gZKy5NjFCrmvScdQHzM-lxOjdHHzJxtqtG5h57T8m_Qy32LFn9VV48BAG1tmCBD9BZ7C1R4ayrZaTs9uhlECPMfnGWmq2mX6hHtdCSIrtkumjVX-fGFOvxVxk59nJ2ttVbKL022HDF-SLxqj05GlYmZilAUj/s3120/IMG_20240201_095153_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1S4th52iQkplqYYCMAbkVnwNZ6JOoEcm5gZKy5NjFCrmvScdQHzM-lxOjdHHzJxtqtG5h57T8m_Qy32LFn9VV48BAG1tmCBD9BZ7C1R4ayrZaTs9uhlECPMfnGWmq2mX6hHtdCSIrtkumjVX-fGFOvxVxk59nJ2ttVbKL022HDF-SLxqj05GlYmZilAUj/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_095153_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and it's time to press.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWbev0702EqumzD6FEf2MhAfedUKpEpBaJ6_b9R5JJ9mXBoJZtkXV_JGhmImHFI8H4rAsdnjeQ4__yecackTAk_a-4GkP89uup2HCrJD6q2XWzPLoa5J9WolP9QOJTgJiEiI71o33N2pgnF5XM5aJkGC4s8Vo9G8QTGYkuZ0Ekok2NistK29v54pW6E1-/s3120/IMG_20240201_095712_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpWbev0702EqumzD6FEf2MhAfedUKpEpBaJ6_b9R5JJ9mXBoJZtkXV_JGhmImHFI8H4rAsdnjeQ4__yecackTAk_a-4GkP89uup2HCrJD6q2XWzPLoa5J9WolP9QOJTgJiEiI71o33N2pgnF5XM5aJkGC4s8Vo9G8QTGYkuZ0Ekok2NistK29v54pW6E1-/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_095712_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;">The rest of the seams are standard straight lines and I assembled the three edge units (large half-hexagon and two diamonds) as sew-offs so they are ready to go.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDAOPlV3iq352OjwaXFhlFiUQDmS5dVIRIQKxATPw9ktFIV-ISSrsx8cIH6IylHiwUe6NV2SYsPfbloWjluRbf-1UqRUOeAkX5ArqT6xHBminZVqa5IZt-JtItVzbfsuF7bz4ME9pSGb8oqwx6FH0SljQXFb794nQRkVlecqm4VqDsDo9hHGWvZttoFPO/s3120/IMG_20240201_095702_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBDAOPlV3iq352OjwaXFhlFiUQDmS5dVIRIQKxATPw9ktFIV-ISSrsx8cIH6IylHiwUe6NV2SYsPfbloWjluRbf-1UqRUOeAkX5ArqT6xHBminZVqa5IZt-JtItVzbfsuF7bz4ME9pSGb8oqwx6FH0SljQXFb794nQRkVlecqm4VqDsDo9hHGWvZttoFPO/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_095702_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Almost there!<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHY7W9whYh-RuHrCY2NvFbZBa_OeFrBPVz4U6cDC6MeVCPm3GwrqUBt_0cAngdhAIQYZIFicuu8dFIucXDRQZqeXt0qeVhz9PwukKdA9sg3SLTdLbo_kfI1AqhwPJMV6h9jf-xxSF7dUO5V-YH6XzjfFNeg3Qa2iY8tM69Pne6YegyNwI79p3SChtX1cFk/s3120/IMG_20240201_100012_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHY7W9whYh-RuHrCY2NvFbZBa_OeFrBPVz4U6cDC6MeVCPm3GwrqUBt_0cAngdhAIQYZIFicuu8dFIucXDRQZqeXt0qeVhz9PwukKdA9sg3SLTdLbo_kfI1AqhwPJMV6h9jf-xxSF7dUO5V-YH6XzjfFNeg3Qa2iY8tM69Pne6YegyNwI79p3SChtX1cFk/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_100012_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ta-da!!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmzZoR2n4uZxa2ChPHC4d-OfVa19xsKTS1GwwH-Gu4_hwR4V_Tzn8AEC4xO4-l-X93ITOipciu24lTiXVaBQBAtgDvaytAX1MckHqU9t-OfzxFHoluzTvo1CfvKppdT9jl9fUr0yBHhxSFOxd7n001MH1lJtymwDT0IVYWgEQnzT3fzcwXqCTK84ujy7d/s3120/IMG_20240201_100553_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPmzZoR2n4uZxa2ChPHC4d-OfVa19xsKTS1GwwH-Gu4_hwR4V_Tzn8AEC4xO4-l-X93ITOipciu24lTiXVaBQBAtgDvaytAX1MckHqU9t-OfzxFHoluzTvo1CfvKppdT9jl9fUr0yBHhxSFOxd7n001MH1lJtymwDT0IVYWgEQnzT3fzcwXqCTK84ujy7d/w640-h640/IMG_20240201_100553_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And look how far I got with one of the scrappy star blocks!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIuI1jj9r_HKQ1F64axiwkCfskWWk2za_M1E4ev6zHsR42XeuVuiS13cuvdpUjRVKHWEVuzSxg2ZN6KCRluyb3xNwAQx_VrPeUSFMeG6cmujW2RRBbOKYsRkbBx1PsL7EaFwDa3mLR8a3CiEVy0ZfugaaEl3gWUzE8IBJswUInrSkbbQoq3GWMBVSGTD6x/s3120/IMG_20240201_100545_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIuI1jj9r_HKQ1F64axiwkCfskWWk2za_M1E4ev6zHsR42XeuVuiS13cuvdpUjRVKHWEVuzSxg2ZN6KCRluyb3xNwAQx_VrPeUSFMeG6cmujW2RRBbOKYsRkbBx1PsL7EaFwDa3mLR8a3CiEVy0ZfugaaEl3gWUzE8IBJswUInrSkbbQoq3GWMBVSGTD6x/w400-h400/IMG_20240201_100545_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I teach the Set-In Piecing Simplified technique, I start students out with "tumbling blocks" using medium size diamonds as it's easier to find the rhythm of this process with the repetitive piecing needed for that pattern. When I retired from teaching I created a downloadable instructional PDF which I sell in my Etsy shop <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaryHueyQuilts" target="_blank">(HERE)</a> that walks quilters through the process with lots of pictures. The PDF is on sale for 20% OFF through March 15, 2024 if you want to grab a copy! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I also point out to students that it took me a good three weeks of daily piecing to find my rhythm so if you give it a try, be patient with yourself!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You also might find the series I created last summer for a sew-along for one of my patterns, The Dresden Star helpful -- you can find the first of six posts in the series<a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2023/06/dresden-stars-tutorial-series.html" target="_blank"> HERE.</a> Lots of step-by-step pictures.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Questions? Use the comment box!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And thanks for visiting!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-66029246825431212152024-02-13T06:12:00.000-08:002024-02-13T06:12:50.276-08:00Ancient UFO Averted!!<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Have you ever started a quilting project only to realize a short way into it that you aren't enjoying it? You are frustrated from the starting gun with some aspect of the pattern? You don't like the color or fabric palette? You don't like the construction process?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It just happened (again) to me!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have admired Jen Kingwell's Wensleydale block since she introduced it in her Quilt Recipes book several years ago so when a friend lent me the templates for it, I dove right into piecing some blocks to "get the feel" of it. I needed "leaders and enders" as I worked on the final assembly of my Summer Garden quilt top so putting together a few Wensleydale blocks seemed a "win-win". I've also been trying to tame this jumble of scraps laying in the middle of my cutting table, so I began the blocks by pulling from it. "Win-win" again -- dealing with scraps.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0DLbodPG1htX7x71ZB4o92MVAPPOelOFpiLW6_y7pnwS02fF-CQXf9KM5fqTngQemQhlz6mqxXJthaVjayk_zOcJz0pp66xymbwopIhjMTt0maiHt4YYvuv2WLpI9XTNurfjVZCFGV3a8xV6ABtRy4fvK4G883YCMkrrZA67rzbozEgAEkLObnnjwCK4Q/s3120/IMG_20240212_090053_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0DLbodPG1htX7x71ZB4o92MVAPPOelOFpiLW6_y7pnwS02fF-CQXf9KM5fqTngQemQhlz6mqxXJthaVjayk_zOcJz0pp66xymbwopIhjMTt0maiHt4YYvuv2WLpI9XTNurfjVZCFGV3a8xV6ABtRy4fvK4G883YCMkrrZA67rzbozEgAEkLObnnjwCK4Q/s320/IMG_20240212_090053_HDR.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Leaving the scrap pile in the middle of the cutting table isn't a great solution but it keeps my goal of dealing with the pile <i>front and center</i> instead of ignoring it in a basket underneath the table.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The first block was ugly -- not enough contrast to suit me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The second block was marginally better.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And by the time I finished the fourth block, I was beginning to sort out better value choices.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Color and value schemes can be corrected by paying attention to what didn't work on the previous block and experimenting as I go.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPAZfq6OseridZOS604PgovmetAHpaf0ufH7zBJ_pECunBpAUPadTcKP-g42ScFNQUhQfWbIkU-Zw6oaqjF0fRKRqB3EpHPUnT2NuOhFDLeElR8TrH10fJVaO-i5m_GG2hm7HZ6dKzMplI-WRn7nnReqOh9mJCKi5tts9meuN-cLYwpoC1ZiKDOox5lmB/s3120/original_ac15a8c1-cae0-4e74-892b-17537e30e715_IMG_20240212_085949_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="2473" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBPAZfq6OseridZOS604PgovmetAHpaf0ufH7zBJ_pECunBpAUPadTcKP-g42ScFNQUhQfWbIkU-Zw6oaqjF0fRKRqB3EpHPUnT2NuOhFDLeElR8TrH10fJVaO-i5m_GG2hm7HZ6dKzMplI-WRn7nnReqOh9mJCKi5tts9meuN-cLYwpoC1ZiKDOox5lmB/w508-h640/original_ac15a8c1-cae0-4e74-892b-17537e30e715_IMG_20240212_085949_HDR.jpg" width="508" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now the only problem was that I wasn't enjoying the piecing process and that my friends, signals the beginning of an <b><i><u>ancient UFO</u></i></b> in my experience!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So this is where I left things Sunday afternoon -- four blocks laying on the floor beside my machine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happily, my sub-conscious designer brain thrust an idea into my conscious maker brain the very first thing Monday morning (a rare but wonderful experience) and after breakfast, I headed to my sewing room, grabbed my 2 1/2" strip box, and eliminated that potential UFO in a burst of sewing!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7kS5VLBM3dGrtmgJEIrKQ9CFy6PmMA4y5Ahyphenhyphen30tQNl-MH7oVufFKfzZlB7fSaOrSCOwbOlHG_icuoc03z4782YZCvjE1sXRxkoQA8Jc4Vps6u0PSq03nZcLwTYOTH_Q3rTBsXWgx8qNMCSeaDzbcc5KKgvx7VERDnIkCQTV2RR7dE71nmvHLT5XXNcw4/s3120/IMG_20240212_090124_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhe7kS5VLBM3dGrtmgJEIrKQ9CFy6PmMA4y5Ahyphenhyphen30tQNl-MH7oVufFKfzZlB7fSaOrSCOwbOlHG_icuoc03z4782YZCvjE1sXRxkoQA8Jc4Vps6u0PSq03nZcLwTYOTH_Q3rTBsXWgx8qNMCSeaDzbcc5KKgvx7VERDnIkCQTV2RR7dE71nmvHLT5XXNcw4/w400-h400/IMG_20240212_090124_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Three sewing sessions later and the four blocks have been saved from the orphan block box and turned into a cheerful little wheelchair size laprobe!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSJp0ezs31zwT5QgmEJWBcT3KxZpkfwxF-P74NJRDWtrRsNW2FEi3ea7wUvaIkRWM92EJ4H6kYVsOgiFk0mGWgE7lnvtOA6ALAGasbfL__pGuprqIssbOIyOi9b2J-74aSD6rjwWm3tFyg_Q3NQ88qN_HFYKlrV3As1jDxF8Ul2ibNjFap2_Xe5jz56ed/s3120/IMG_20240213_085158.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkSJp0ezs31zwT5QgmEJWBcT3KxZpkfwxF-P74NJRDWtrRsNW2FEi3ea7wUvaIkRWM92EJ4H6kYVsOgiFk0mGWgE7lnvtOA6ALAGasbfL__pGuprqIssbOIyOi9b2J-74aSD6rjwWm3tFyg_Q3NQ88qN_HFYKlrV3As1jDxF8Ul2ibNjFap2_Xe5jz56ed/w640-h640/IMG_20240213_085158.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, I'll layer it up and add it to the little pile I'm quilting through this week. </span><span style="font-size: large;">I could make it bigger but right now t</span><span style="font-size: large;">his size charity quilt is my new solution to UFO's -- this is the eighth one I've made since early December! It's an easy size for me to quilt -- usually two of my 40 minutes quilting sessions has one ready to bind.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now to get all those 2 1/2" strips back into their box?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwulaerdgjP7eu7Z6PqrptqwN-8R9pYWZDqua49NjJ-IGrfEjjx6wp5a6dNtAo26Cded9WOlqmMQnQ8VD7SAfAphUxfBoRwH3xXkspNCE2qr7r0Pp3o1UQCzlHOrhoWTqzfbKEFYWT-D-b1nC3zbDm8hpDm7qTqztVb1nDEQ1akdpf6_DqLXjxAuEOlXE7/s3120/IMG_20240213_085322_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwulaerdgjP7eu7Z6PqrptqwN-8R9pYWZDqua49NjJ-IGrfEjjx6wp5a6dNtAo26Cded9WOlqmMQnQ8VD7SAfAphUxfBoRwH3xXkspNCE2qr7r0Pp3o1UQCzlHOrhoWTqzfbKEFYWT-D-b1nC3zbDm8hpDm7qTqztVb1nDEQ1akdpf6_DqLXjxAuEOlXE7/w400-h400/IMG_20240213_085322_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(And no, a bigger box is not the solution!!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Morale of the story -- if it's not fun, change direction!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enjoy your week!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-1651615170130607712024-02-06T15:59:00.000-08:002024-02-06T15:59:51.460-08:00Revisiting Pressing Matters<p style="text-align: center;">Apparently I've been blogging for just over a decade?!? As I was working on a couple projects during our gray typical January the past couple weeks, I recalled writing a blogpost about "pressing". When I went back to revisit it -- there is actually a series of three posts. </p><p style="text-align: center;">I think good pressing habits make for better piecing and while the tips and techniques I shared in these tutorials aren't the only best practices, they certainly have served me well over the past 30 years of piecing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The first one deals with the basics that apply to any piecing project. </p><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-first-tutorial-pressing-basics-for.html">https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/my-first-tutorial-pressing-basics-for.html</a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Over the past couple weeks I've been turning a layer cake into the sampler blocks from the 2021 summer time Moda sampler -- thirteen of the fourteen 12" blocks are pieced along with four 6" blocks and two 4" blocks. I have to say the wool pressing pads that have become so popular are a game changer! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQTd461MlgmP3T98YIXc56tHl0mK8_wKird03qJFwSwCWbnBXA4qUDlN4MsjHrC2f7zZw8KA_svr0MdfKESao2AHc2ZtiLF8HKVz5gns0ndkV9oxiB8MYsQixEnXMWoOE3NEOrQTP-BkhAHemfdTJtVASzBwOVCDLgeAjER3iLXVXZm5hKAur2MEFGejo/s3120/IMG_20240202_182906.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQTd461MlgmP3T98YIXc56tHl0mK8_wKird03qJFwSwCWbnBXA4qUDlN4MsjHrC2f7zZw8KA_svr0MdfKESao2AHc2ZtiLF8HKVz5gns0ndkV9oxiB8MYsQixEnXMWoOE3NEOrQTP-BkhAHemfdTJtVASzBwOVCDLgeAjER3iLXVXZm5hKAur2MEFGejo/w640-h640/IMG_20240202_182906.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>One thing you will notice when reading that post is I don't press seams open. It wasn't a "thing" back in the "old" days when I learned to piece and I have tried it off and on over the past couple years but I'm not a fan. My piecing skill depends on a side-pressed seam too much.<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eD1yRHaIQJ_uLw2LsafZDPEnCwbTI1TCj8jf8WNE5pYdy-tInhjmXCKIeduMp7ixipiqkweqB1q6-nXmSD6bFP8n8EVvJsnxVp4XBhG61j6IuMVc9jRLIDdTsqARLddcaF16I5LfomfVEjzf30mTSqcwUaH_7xUB8xA98aXYjQWec0dHwcm3rr1OlZVu/s3120/IMG_20240204_161823_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0eD1yRHaIQJ_uLw2LsafZDPEnCwbTI1TCj8jf8WNE5pYdy-tInhjmXCKIeduMp7ixipiqkweqB1q6-nXmSD6bFP8n8EVvJsnxVp4XBhG61j6IuMVc9jRLIDdTsqARLddcaF16I5LfomfVEjzf30mTSqcwUaH_7xUB8xA98aXYjQWec0dHwcm3rr1OlZVu/w400-h400/IMG_20240204_161823_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>\All that is left of the layer cake is this pile of scraps! I was lucky to find a couple of the prints which were released in 2019 to fill in some gaps and make a binding. I was wise enough to purchase a two yard length of the large scale print from the collection so that will be the borders!<p style="text-align: center;">The second tutorial in the series shares tips I learned from teaching mentor, the marvelous Mary Ellen Hopkins. That woman could stream line any process which fit right into my work ethic. Chain-piecing was new to me when I started taking workshops with Mary Ellen and this tutorial shares some of what I learned from her about pressing.</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/pressing-basics-for-piecing-part-2.html">https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/pressing-basics-for-piecing-part-2.html</a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I have a side-project going as leaders and enders making these cute scrappy star blocks inspired by a pattern shared by The Stash Bandit (Diane Harris) in the August 2022 issue of American Patchwork and Quilting. The fabrics are being sourced out of my 2 1/2" scrap stash -- squares, triangles, and strips. No idea yet how large this quilt will be or what it's destiny might be once finished -- I'm just having fun piecing the blocks!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh848ANIxh99HCB7vR02hNtVYxsGzB6BNUgIhauLYo6un3sahqg0fBlr0Ab6EgzO-nJK9cTbzQQbvTGEC96LGQKf1594GeIMSS316VKv4V5BjEQBvdERF2Nm2_1C4aJgqa24f40yvjHX81NJpI3WdhYBCa0iKMaOEvRXhAAy7XOzRaUvune4r5-Jqfh6Vjb/s3120/IMG_20240101_085938.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh848ANIxh99HCB7vR02hNtVYxsGzB6BNUgIhauLYo6un3sahqg0fBlr0Ab6EgzO-nJK9cTbzQQbvTGEC96LGQKf1594GeIMSS316VKv4V5BjEQBvdERF2Nm2_1C4aJgqa24f40yvjHX81NJpI3WdhYBCa0iKMaOEvRXhAAy7XOzRaUvune4r5-Jqfh6Vjb/w400-h400/IMG_20240101_085938.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">The third tutorial has applied to this scrappy project -- it is my "go-to" method for edge-to-edge block settings regardless of whether the blocks are an even grid or an odd grid -- the method always applies!! And I find it especially useful for those patterns where the designer never mentions "how to press" the blocks!</p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/pressing-basics-for-piecing-part-3.html">https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2013/10/pressing-basics-for-piecing-part-3.html</a></p><p style="text-align: center;">I'll bet you have some go-to tips I've missed when it comes to pressing -- share them in the comments so we can all learn more!</p><p style="text-align: center;">Looking forward to more guilt-free gray winter days of piecing! </p><p style="text-align: center;">Mary</p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p></div>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-8444865427314248322024-01-11T10:20:00.000-08:002024-01-11T10:20:12.995-08:00Flourishes BOM Update<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As promised, here are all twelve finished blocks from my 2023 year-long BOM project.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This was a stash-busting goal -- the patterns with fabric kits have been in my stash for over 10 years and before that, they were in my Mom's stash for about the same length of time!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1J-VBAonhFjJxVl6DzpDpRnKomhK6oz-HAwAE14RIpfKWFVNf90Mi0cA-CqIMI0XO9iOYG3HoAtCAKiEt5ATNTmPEUOcsWKIXIVyPQ3PeJ5aOMlgHxaqThw8SNE1QzmqgCeiQTep9NSLqHEaXYLnzF1OR6YKGXN5q7of7ICGkvfy4EhI4BeR06Q4-XHOz/s3120/IMG_20240110_183936.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1J-VBAonhFjJxVl6DzpDpRnKomhK6oz-HAwAE14RIpfKWFVNf90Mi0cA-CqIMI0XO9iOYG3HoAtCAKiEt5ATNTmPEUOcsWKIXIVyPQ3PeJ5aOMlgHxaqThw8SNE1QzmqgCeiQTep9NSLqHEaXYLnzF1OR6YKGXN5q7of7ICGkvfy4EhI4BeR06Q4-XHOz/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183936.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pattern is Flourishes, designed by the Piece O'Cake duo of Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins. They released it as a BOM with a fabric line at the same time with one of the original quilting cotton fabric vendors, P & B Fabrics.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdYEJ7OvpmzkB_qBCfDSFsieX8dOgEkKaWl6OhfS-_5APfbqbqiARex8WAtC3G1voR2XlURx9IGZ0jF_RePcWE0WSx2ujVpFo4kbNdNI1SCtQNApwOOuHjbAogIqPUvQxGDtSUZuVEEYB4mXAusQmxFsDj9ZUCSqaO4VRZwkdJm17mhBsvOu7zESZyhy0/s3120/IMG_20240110_183908.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNdYEJ7OvpmzkB_qBCfDSFsieX8dOgEkKaWl6OhfS-_5APfbqbqiARex8WAtC3G1voR2XlURx9IGZ0jF_RePcWE0WSx2ujVpFo4kbNdNI1SCtQNApwOOuHjbAogIqPUvQxGDtSUZuVEEYB4mXAusQmxFsDj9ZUCSqaO4VRZwkdJm17mhBsvOu7zESZyhy0/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183908.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I worked on one block each month and happily was able to finish each in about two weeks of evening hand stitching. The pace kept me on track and a week or more break between blocks prevented boredom.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHw_IzsOygnxobtDGEoS4iColakexAkgw4xIy-nNdBsVLxyKQLTIBTfKf1TkRefYTz5J4z9YyxZFRA7ZH6acwUTAznwAv6meQYI6btzpBzJTTeDgNG9x3MP95ubv37tc8ORF6YoTYecaoaHxxcJDIV-jTXWS_bCTpHHAEwjZ5lx655U1Y70mT3LCcposPB/s3120/IMG_20240110_183838.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHw_IzsOygnxobtDGEoS4iColakexAkgw4xIy-nNdBsVLxyKQLTIBTfKf1TkRefYTz5J4z9YyxZFRA7ZH6acwUTAznwAv6meQYI6btzpBzJTTeDgNG9x3MP95ubv37tc8ORF6YoTYecaoaHxxcJDIV-jTXWS_bCTpHHAEwjZ5lx655U1Y70mT3LCcposPB/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183838.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This was the last block I stitched -- #12 in the series and well-placed because by this time, my confidence was solid. If I'd started with this block, I think all those little circles would have defeated me?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTIodKlv8mRWyXHoccABPwT-ty4flmYyLjTY4sVaZjDEzJHV1JsT9xqiB_KGBtMHJhRbnsmIKJgggKBmd9H1BSHuebqxT0s_nBs1J_G0AfnxcTjSSy_frlA73jqYVoGk-AKv2GCPI9YE_qE9oy1UPy-0CegLUbQr9Q6NE7jI1SJFqZUUTVDdSCpE29VQz/s3120/IMG_20240110_183741.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZTIodKlv8mRWyXHoccABPwT-ty4flmYyLjTY4sVaZjDEzJHV1JsT9xqiB_KGBtMHJhRbnsmIKJgggKBmd9H1BSHuebqxT0s_nBs1J_G0AfnxcTjSSy_frlA73jqYVoGk-AKv2GCPI9YE_qE9oy1UPy-0CegLUbQr9Q6NE7jI1SJFqZUUTVDdSCpE29VQz/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183741.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hmmm, why is this picture sideways?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyvxVQNgSxugdsV5DkSpKaeuWwsVeudzJXN8KA2c18RXi6hFGX90KSxbVo5StmGmvyK3ligbz9Sog5p00mO7J61Sb-xbbXx7pcaICTh4LoaOuAE0SyA1xfnV-FvB-RfT9KMicfiSftzUrbb0TGWHrtQiZvYmxlzVc0DVoRDPtxq9qd3uu0ggJ0C9GffVn/s3120/IMG_20240110_183346.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGyvxVQNgSxugdsV5DkSpKaeuWwsVeudzJXN8KA2c18RXi6hFGX90KSxbVo5StmGmvyK3ligbz9Sog5p00mO7J61Sb-xbbXx7pcaICTh4LoaOuAE0SyA1xfnV-FvB-RfT9KMicfiSftzUrbb0TGWHrtQiZvYmxlzVc0DVoRDPtxq9qd3uu0ggJ0C9GffVn/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183346.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, I have no idea -- but I'm blaming Microsoft! They seem to have intervened and "upgraded" the photo app I use (thanks, so much???) and I haven't figured out how to import my photos from my camera disk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmjpRYdvSLoKTXyR9jmtKzVB7NovusbF818ftiEyH3qKJ6btbq8iapSojwh2ZKsGkJKHUWxUtyfgrXSzCmhmEzgLYeAf4DQk_EtEQBE8fTgoMiIdfebPzgAP7T3tftyoNvhEE-LC7tzs4bIY7SZmk89L9njB0Dbx56mr0PZLhw2-G2IZZ0VHNByldbSpH/s3120/IMG_20240110_183408.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYmjpRYdvSLoKTXyR9jmtKzVB7NovusbF818ftiEyH3qKJ6btbq8iapSojwh2ZKsGkJKHUWxUtyfgrXSzCmhmEzgLYeAf4DQk_EtEQBE8fTgoMiIdfebPzgAP7T3tftyoNvhEE-LC7tzs4bIY7SZmk89L9njB0Dbx56mr0PZLhw2-G2IZZ0VHNByldbSpH/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183408.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To get around this issue (which may stem from impatience on my part), I'm importing photos taken on my phone and automatically stored in my Google account. Actually, it makes this step simpler but I didn't take the time to figure out how to edit them. Apparently my phone turned some of the pictures sideways and I'm stumped.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kiTyr1-I6MhsfCtiV-qfHfVrdM2GUN-hFB9rq68U-ER0XDKY60ROHcKZmJCFvKmNWNR0BvAhxg0HMm45CSpM94lT_Tsy6PzZJmpYm-rrE1-TnnIX-9bnBgokFtytsd2nVIi9xH67V2miw-yGY5y54IU9JCNRmCDKAqLiY3K6yRswK_tm7KJi0fl8PIhI/s3120/IMG_20240110_183432.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5kiTyr1-I6MhsfCtiV-qfHfVrdM2GUN-hFB9rq68U-ER0XDKY60ROHcKZmJCFvKmNWNR0BvAhxg0HMm45CSpM94lT_Tsy6PzZJmpYm-rrE1-TnnIX-9bnBgokFtytsd2nVIi9xH67V2miw-yGY5y54IU9JCNRmCDKAqLiY3K6yRswK_tm7KJi0fl8PIhI/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183432.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But the pictures are clear and the colors accurate and since my mental energy is a bit low this morning, I'm going with it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Random thought -- will this make the post more memorable??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The sideways photos, I mean.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuTxscHkRGFpgoDiUcSmYiZ8R29av0Wai3LVgK_-xP9YXhd_cL7nR-pQXp1b2vQflSJAqIZE-XnuIERpCt5Jf06ctgvtixlY7OJNm4HoF0F8sFt1uZC95750_AGl_H1pw7MG3eM6N0aLw_7XJdp-YoUnVtWfTGCUgqvC7L0GQImNoK5F8ncltZ8sRAavq/s3120/IMG_20240110_183536.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuTxscHkRGFpgoDiUcSmYiZ8R29av0Wai3LVgK_-xP9YXhd_cL7nR-pQXp1b2vQflSJAqIZE-XnuIERpCt5Jf06ctgvtixlY7OJNm4HoF0F8sFt1uZC95750_AGl_H1pw7MG3eM6N0aLw_7XJdp-YoUnVtWfTGCUgqvC7L0GQImNoK5F8ncltZ8sRAavq/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183536.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I grabbed a light table years ago and have rarely used it until this project. Every morning, I would trace 4 to 5 pieces onto the prints using the light table. Then aligning the background block on top of the full size pattern on the light table again, I would position and pin the pieces in place ready for an evening of stitching.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo0uWGcRGFXYLjqbxxyQU4plmeP6iUhiiLnJNM_jR6E1BHYnPmDPGll9grlg-NGghJzQHe9_sJDLyNcOpz1feFfgAZQqlwuWQ9WLPZXl5g4Ul2PV0PuHnJwyNHbNDe0-LpvOvmMooBEAzXnwL2k7auHP0fVHx2ytxaG5qDF9u0ynH780ZgVmpJv4Iw5mu/s3120/IMG_20240110_183600.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxo0uWGcRGFXYLjqbxxyQU4plmeP6iUhiiLnJNM_jR6E1BHYnPmDPGll9grlg-NGghJzQHe9_sJDLyNcOpz1feFfgAZQqlwuWQ9WLPZXl5g4Ul2PV0PuHnJwyNHbNDe0-LpvOvmMooBEAzXnwL2k7auHP0fVHx2ytxaG5qDF9u0ynH780ZgVmpJv4Iw5mu/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183600.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(Upside down, really??)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used the needle-turned applique method, but one thing I do to make it easier is to finger press all the way around a piece on the (chalk) pencil lines because I find the needle-turning goes more smoothly. Much to my surprise, I enjoyed not having to make any fabric decisions -- the fabrics in the kits matching the pattern cover exactly! Generally, I like to do my own thing -- picking fabrics that please me but it was a nice change.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiEGl3CvqS92ESozUD0tuSD4-ItcThcwUd9beiYMG-fdgRVTFz4cJSsvEL6gMjMct7dKryTaFGLGBqf0VHm0kD_cdaQsN5aF63Zp09Npiv-WONHByJ8m97_m6V0o0jDaaJquzu_RjdeYYUWQXxJTuxpXzQwLepvMQfy2WgXJ8jF27s0uYXamSd31eeqOP/s3120/IMG_20240110_183623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiEGl3CvqS92ESozUD0tuSD4-ItcThcwUd9beiYMG-fdgRVTFz4cJSsvEL6gMjMct7dKryTaFGLGBqf0VHm0kD_cdaQsN5aF63Zp09Npiv-WONHByJ8m97_m6V0o0jDaaJquzu_RjdeYYUWQXxJTuxpXzQwLepvMQfy2WgXJ8jF27s0uYXamSd31eeqOP/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183623.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Along about September, I began to think about assembling the quilt top and getting it quilted. These are large blocks -- 20" and in the designers' layout, they are set edge-to-edge on the diagonal. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We're talking BIG quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So that creates a "quilting" challenge for me -- too big for me to machine quilt and perhaps too much for my hands to hand quilt? To send it out will be expensive since the design would be "ruined" by an edge-to-edge pattern and would require "custom-quilting" which would be elegant but out of my budget.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjApyTNcQKAPTN6JHMqXej87Y0JrE8pii9G5yl2ZIeGfXPnAjoxxaFfol7nb37vDou7UKOCdsUfQTgAvScmCgYmwuIleYSrfpH3TeBxUrpZD4J4IFjzgBXce-7OyImOAbEq94fNsPFpnjpVKgwlsRZJ4T_WSMOP_DC_7x239fTMdos4HE8Ox9bQxsKDkwG/s3120/IMG_20240110_183646.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjApyTNcQKAPTN6JHMqXej87Y0JrE8pii9G5yl2ZIeGfXPnAjoxxaFfol7nb37vDou7UKOCdsUfQTgAvScmCgYmwuIleYSrfpH3TeBxUrpZD4J4IFjzgBXce-7OyImOAbEq94fNsPFpnjpVKgwlsRZJ4T_WSMOP_DC_7x239fTMdos4HE8Ox9bQxsKDkwG/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183646.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Plus who gets the quilt down the road???</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The solution I've come up with solves both issues -- make three smaller quilts!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Easier for me to quilt myself and I have three granddaughters, so . . . . </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9Cl8COj4Q_HKNTHiDggqOSqECoHy55DN_86QahKncIKAmtmAPPFytOyozy90Icz249wro3miQdDo8MEbLhLAv00_UPcSiUQ0w5j9nJjqMzI5glGHwk-a0XIF6wRYLUqc08lkOlhcj8oF8nZmwnJd0t6I8VQkwdj5DuGHraKNgp8ox53pTodX-gS19EpA/s3120/IMG_20240110_183320.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9Cl8COj4Q_HKNTHiDggqOSqECoHy55DN_86QahKncIKAmtmAPPFytOyozy90Icz249wro3miQdDo8MEbLhLAv00_UPcSiUQ0w5j9nJjqMzI5glGHwk-a0XIF6wRYLUqc08lkOlhcj8oF8nZmwnJd0t6I8VQkwdj5DuGHraKNgp8ox53pTodX-gS19EpA/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_183320.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After laying out four blocks for a smaller quilt, I decided to make three more blocks, so each quilt will have five blocks. Towards that end, I've been saving all the leftover bits of fabric from the kits that came with each month's pattern. I chose three of the patterns I enjoyed making for the "fifth" blocks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the first duplicate block. I've had to do a little stash-diving to substitute for fabrics I used up from the pattern kits but that's not really a problem -- deep, deep stash here!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJJIowvVOKomnmzGOwZaU0EvW73IPodHo7_vmtfroUF52iBIRY0mBjM3V24ZKLPr3xo3n5NKwtV1r3DWyPgetl9F6srS1iYgfT-c-wf7mNP0Ns2MTU2gN7KIkLsVd0v0vAdbkVeT94n7Lbz4SQ_PN1RiwGN3KHebVQ_316W3nkzsp5djeWVB89azds_Ax/s3120/IMG_20240110_160901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdJJIowvVOKomnmzGOwZaU0EvW73IPodHo7_vmtfroUF52iBIRY0mBjM3V24ZKLPr3xo3n5NKwtV1r3DWyPgetl9F6srS1iYgfT-c-wf7mNP0Ns2MTU2gN7KIkLsVd0v0vAdbkVeT94n7Lbz4SQ_PN1RiwGN3KHebVQ_316W3nkzsp5djeWVB89azds_Ax/w400-h400/IMG_20240110_160901.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm heading off for a few retreat days at the end of next week and the duplicate blocks will be my focus. My prep work is to applique the stems of each block (my least favorite part) and cut all the applique pieces so I'm sure I have compatible fabrics. It would be wonderful to come home with three completed blocks but even if I don't, I'll have made significant progress!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Other plans for the retreat include layering a couple large quilts (to take advantage of extra hands that will be available!) and prepping an antique quilt top for a little rework (dissembling and removing basting threads) and perhaps cutting a Moda BOM from the summer of 2022? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And eating cookies?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you going to be able to enjoy a retreat this winter? I enjoy them more now that I've stopped taking my sewing machine. Focusing on hand-stitching and prep work (layering and cutting) makes the planning and packing easier plus I'm not "nose-down" at my machine for the weekend (i.e., more social time). If you aren't part of group, organize a couple of your favorite stitching friends and rent a place -- quite a few small retreat venues have popped up in this region and if you have to cook for yourselves, indulge in a few days of eating badly to take the pressure off?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-66555285832821091302024-01-02T10:20:00.000-08:002024-01-02T10:20:29.461-08:00Launching A New Year - 2024<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Yesterday in the midst of a quiet first day of the year, I was contemplating that we are almost a quarter of the way into this century! Just 23 years ago, we were nervously entering a new millennium with more than a little dread of what awaited us. But here we are -- still moving forward!?!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My family was together for a few crazy hours last week (although Grandma had to put down her Mom foot -- boy, can young ones get wound up!?!). I hope you were able to gather with friends and/or family for some holiday cheer!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX9gEpeRN-zkyaDEZSpiHTFBfiqhNAJ4SvDFoqK3y6F36cUJyHVBxbegMHKxon_969TVPtfUo-UfncoOpqTk1432SoVSgK4dOCqBHdWCdM-wJAHrdT88WPqYFID71_1XfTv8db-aqt56SqJMS-DDTngIHA_Rkb8paH6_e254AQVuYh7H6QhmKSjbadonR/s3120/IMG_20231227_164829_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwX9gEpeRN-zkyaDEZSpiHTFBfiqhNAJ4SvDFoqK3y6F36cUJyHVBxbegMHKxon_969TVPtfUo-UfncoOpqTk1432SoVSgK4dOCqBHdWCdM-wJAHrdT88WPqYFID71_1XfTv8db-aqt56SqJMS-DDTngIHA_Rkb8paH6_e254AQVuYh7H6QhmKSjbadonR/w400-h400/IMG_20231227_164829_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I spent New Year's weekend with tea and cookies hiding in my sewing zone -- reviewing my 2023 accomplishments and setting some (okay, perhaps too many) 2024 goals. In 2023, I set four goals plus I wrote out a list of potential "new projects" in the hope of being less overwhelmed with all the exciting "new projects" that are thrust into my view (daily) by Instagram scrolling?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've reviewed my progress at the end of each quarter, so today's comments will be brief and focus on my satisfaction. Suffice it to say that two of my goals were accomplished or acceded -- I let go of more quilted pieces than I finished (yea!!) and I finished another half dozen old UFO's!! Progress on one more of my goals was moderate -- I quilted three of the five tops made in 2022. Three of my new 2023 projects came from the list of seven projects (but I did cave to "exciting" ideas from Instagram at least three times -- two of which are completely finished so in my mind, that was okay). The fourth and final goal was something of a fail -- to deal with all the antique quilt tops. The only two I "dealt" with were ones I sold -- I didn't touch any of the other seven. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I suspect lots of folks resist setting goals because they expect to fail based on past performance, but I feel like even modest success makes the "setting" worth the effort. My annual goals are a guidance system that help me re-center. I write them down in my daily work journal (which keeps me accountable) so it is easy to revisit them regularly both to look for a "new" project and to encourage focus.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">So New Year, New Goals!</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Try again to deal with the antique quilt tops!?! Just had an idea -- perhaps a self-challenge where I "draw" one out of a hat to work on for two months???</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Quilt the tops I made in 2022 and 2023 -- there are five big ones and five small charity quilts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Give away fifty yards of fabric -- this is so hard for me, but I definitely have more than I can use?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Still eliminating UFO's -- I must be close to the end of this aspect of my work but five popped up in the weekend tidy-up of the sewing room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Let go of more pieces than I finish -- this goal reduces inventory for the benefit of my heirs???</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And face it, it gives me a reason to keep piecing!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">6. Not quilting but I need to use up yarn -- so use at least 12 skeins/batches from the stash!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">PLUS revisit my list of "already on-hand" projects when I get the itch to start a new one.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All this reflection and sorting and planning and tidy-up always results in impulsive sewing! Pawing through UFO's triggers me and next thing I know I'm laying out blocks and piecing more blocks, making a plan, modifying for a quicker finish . . . </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11Bl6KjlFAHh9dNIJ-pRyYy8rNUpqBU3wjM8kjfYRtuz5a52X10qNw-sYCtBIPWCVo4P-zk22GQareCPZAKpoMXPZdIrAojKiJiiGcpXzsHgzSSPjGg6a-cIi-P493U-jPFkCCcTbK2wNmHLddZGhvGlQXsSEnFX4c3HSXVO4MiOy1k49ZWjXnssJe-W_/s3120/IMG_20240101_085906.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg11Bl6KjlFAHh9dNIJ-pRyYy8rNUpqBU3wjM8kjfYRtuz5a52X10qNw-sYCtBIPWCVo4P-zk22GQareCPZAKpoMXPZdIrAojKiJiiGcpXzsHgzSSPjGg6a-cIi-P493U-jPFkCCcTbK2wNmHLddZGhvGlQXsSEnFX4c3HSXVO4MiOy1k49ZWjXnssJe-W_/w400-h400/IMG_20240101_085906.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">. . . now that box of squares and 9-patches left over from the 2013 Civil War hand-piecing workshops during the Gettysburg battle commemorations are a wheel-chair size lap and a large lap robe size quilt tops. I might even be layering them later today?? And just like that one of the UFO's will be crossed off my list. It's a good start on the goals list!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The yarn stash got some attention, too. Now there are two new projects lined up that I enjoy knitting -- a pair of High Desert socks and a Musselburg Hat -- both use bits and bobs of yarns plus most of a full skein! I've knit each pattern several times and once set up, they are somewhat mindless knits that occupy my hands well during webinars and meetings. Plus they are great gifts to have on hand!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioNt3Y-3NeX5UtqR4aoafYPpNRE9dXTc-edp1NMu0ppJgw_1W9wstDRh-Lwol3kXth17S-qDT46vWiXeeoAMg1NAauafpwRV5q1Pq9Kr9zUd0co8kTSx5FLqK-YYUJ0Z7Ap3JdiPdYxWEglzxHbMLS_Arx9bhyzh0fxvaSjjsbKr6ReTObcXSpDtIQWYqx/s3120/IMG_20240101_085818.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioNt3Y-3NeX5UtqR4aoafYPpNRE9dXTc-edp1NMu0ppJgw_1W9wstDRh-Lwol3kXth17S-qDT46vWiXeeoAMg1NAauafpwRV5q1Pq9Kr9zUd0co8kTSx5FLqK-YYUJ0Z7Ap3JdiPdYxWEglzxHbMLS_Arx9bhyzh0fxvaSjjsbKr6ReTObcXSpDtIQWYqx/s320/IMG_20240101_085818.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Both patterns are available on ravelry.com if you are interested in checking them out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because "goal setting" works so well for my stitching efforts, I also decided to set some genealogy work goals. I enjoy the discovery process and have definitely embraced it over the past three years but my curiosity often lures me down interesting rabbit holes that distract me so I end up not getting to the end of a particular research effort. Maybe goals will help??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time will tell!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">So lets launch a New Year and embrace contentment in our lives</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AMBTjHWOQRg68fmZUIOCOsk81xyeeuP5ddi9D9uUK9TINSaAiCMAJO7jiC8Q-q4c7KEPAPnGweaiAvkLr5jQMFGkkC5ZQDXcNUQqfDsBytky46jHiuav_anI5uUlsB4Za9A8dOY2bsQRRKLu_f6FCSJLb0Wz_rdXPsrKwG3bH6HVBjN_6l8B3t0KrV6L/s3120/IMG_20231231_105631.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3AMBTjHWOQRg68fmZUIOCOsk81xyeeuP5ddi9D9uUK9TINSaAiCMAJO7jiC8Q-q4c7KEPAPnGweaiAvkLr5jQMFGkkC5ZQDXcNUQqfDsBytky46jHiuav_anI5uUlsB4Za9A8dOY2bsQRRKLu_f6FCSJLb0Wz_rdXPsrKwG3bH6HVBjN_6l8B3t0KrV6L/w400-h400/IMG_20231231_105631.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Find ways to use your skills and your passions to support the people around you!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Step up to defend people and the earth to leave a legacy of kindness and respect! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Be courageous every day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happy New Year!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-70539159380243177722023-12-23T10:40:00.000-08:002023-12-23T10:40:39.691-08:00Holiday Blessings!!<p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcYhU8aje5YVYwNEQRjdRsTbtKk8sqy-YvPEMBfnLgGf-fZmx53lH8oRO3UCxwAiNLlorkxb9920njbIm9Th7hSZSciGgjfMXVt5_mSKDUazgbRy_r5VZOooZzxklo6Jx8AWPjrKHt24_kFxPuCfGDwvljpORZ6DSxrUXGM5wRrYBUN5YkSQWeFvqT2Kn/s5472/P1030732.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMcYhU8aje5YVYwNEQRjdRsTbtKk8sqy-YvPEMBfnLgGf-fZmx53lH8oRO3UCxwAiNLlorkxb9920njbIm9Th7hSZSciGgjfMXVt5_mSKDUazgbRy_r5VZOooZzxklo6Jx8AWPjrKHt24_kFxPuCfGDwvljpORZ6DSxrUXGM5wRrYBUN5YkSQWeFvqT2Kn/w640-h426/P1030732.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just popping in quickly in the midst of some pre-holiday cleaning to wish each of you a holiday full of peace and contentment!! Some are celebrate Christmas, some Hanukah, some the Solstice and some Kwanzaa during the month of December but no matter what our celebration, it gets hectic and hard to recall the "reason for our season". We all want and need to celebrate remembrance and forward looking hope at this time of year regardless of our spiritual foundation.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pa0l0S1djevhunM5WVDsbe7FezU-wIzC3nSwhetvYXgeFAkplCYSiQ9SvOwwmIt3EpCdvBG6DAYW6PIe8OVwReyAyshnzI73bum1mwY62vsihxFj9kV7R21j3lIvCq1VP0S95N3QHYNpPfrszhg80YJMAI7LeN0sYDxIOd7RpZdaPZ2BSnk62nMY6jXx/s5472/P1040971.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4pa0l0S1djevhunM5WVDsbe7FezU-wIzC3nSwhetvYXgeFAkplCYSiQ9SvOwwmIt3EpCdvBG6DAYW6PIe8OVwReyAyshnzI73bum1mwY62vsihxFj9kV7R21j3lIvCq1VP0S95N3QHYNpPfrszhg80YJMAI7LeN0sYDxIOd7RpZdaPZ2BSnk62nMY6jXx/w400-h266/P1040971.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So blessings to each of you!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pass it on!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary </span></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-57028666341039748622023-12-07T08:32:00.000-08:002023-12-19T14:52:41.238-08:00Blog Lazy?!?<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hey there! I'm still feeling blog-lazy and so another month passed with nary a peep from me. But I've been stitching and knitting in the background. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There's been a new Covid outbreak in my realm and even though I've had a booster this fall, I find myself battling "social reluctance" again. A couple days of not speaking to anyone (but the cat) are becoming a regular feature of the average week again and while it seems to suit me, I know it's not a good habit. Perhaps you are experiencing the same thing in your corner of the world?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Over the past month, I've finished a couple of this year's quilt tops which is amazing to me! "Amazing? Why?" you ask. My MO has always been "finish the top and put it into a pile". That drive back in 2021 to quilt twenty-one UFO's seems to still be having a positive impact on my finishing record. I think this makes six or seven quilts I've made this year from start to finish! A record for me.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the Dresden Stars quilt I made this summer as part of the tutorial series on the blog. In the last post of that series, I wrote about how I quilted the first one and my intention at that time was to just copy the designs I used onto this quilt top. But once I "outlined" the star blocks, everything changed. What I think precipitated those changes was using a puffier batting and wanting less dense quilting to highlight the loft.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xLc8ssVJ_Purg5nhUl5th1fX3x_cKaYsUHAEDLQolEgtR8pG-y7gkBY6W5moBmjtrMlcUCJAKpvB4Wqmz1ST9Sj2XzF1RdiuPPLdLP1wXrJvBsOvj2WBGRk_DFYfNcrOFj5mLoAZJdWsbbNHaqflHD3XPRp1YwD4tB_hVtnqS80aSyeLxYz53qIXk5hz/s4759/P1060388.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4759" data-original-width="3613" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1xLc8ssVJ_Purg5nhUl5th1fX3x_cKaYsUHAEDLQolEgtR8pG-y7gkBY6W5moBmjtrMlcUCJAKpvB4Wqmz1ST9Sj2XzF1RdiuPPLdLP1wXrJvBsOvj2WBGRk_DFYfNcrOFj5mLoAZJdWsbbNHaqflHD3XPRp1YwD4tB_hVtnqS80aSyeLxYz53qIXk5hz/w486-h640/P1060388.JPG" width="486" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The backing fabric is another long-stashed beauty that I was never going to be able to bring myself to cut up so I split it lengthwise (the aqua band) and crosswise (a favorite remnant of a dotty print) and made it large enough to back this quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoL9GpSpZPAtvZkZwYZPqTHj0rcyKiAJG_HDIOd8bRMWm776-Smc0EeZJctML1VS86eddseEK3gWhxoQ06hlI5YqG_CMUd4tfKwjS7SvqO3SGaG5OEIJqCZsXJT7ELLmFw85qGBzI60MJv_BFXjfeGSuqu2Kk9TpvtSxiLtg_jTLQGLPGRGa57jPSWUg8/s5472/P1060390.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5472" data-original-width="3648" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYoL9GpSpZPAtvZkZwYZPqTHj0rcyKiAJG_HDIOd8bRMWm776-Smc0EeZJctML1VS86eddseEK3gWhxoQ06hlI5YqG_CMUd4tfKwjS7SvqO3SGaG5OEIJqCZsXJT7ELLmFw85qGBzI60MJv_BFXjfeGSuqu2Kk9TpvtSxiLtg_jTLQGLPGRGa57jPSWUg8/w426-h640/P1060390.JPG" width="426" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My favorite part of the quilting was creating this design for the border -- I even had the patience to go around the entire quilt and make reference dots for stopping and starting before I started stitching!?! The looped motif is repeated all the way around the quilt and was easy once I did the marking.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBBjGjJ9Q03TTcEWF-HfbK5KBup5dlGLjfNKEBJOG6sQdoDshMbKAzpNsLbD_nWcp6a8hEGDdK3V-kCxaTJvlnCINm3NTujxe-aLRUY9FrRyqA8vRdceExmddERNFnP7g-zlvczyxyR0SbV8xJFbYjkkNnsFAHKoJdyG1UYoyhDfYqXOk51XiHhnlunqJ/s5472/P1060384.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLBBjGjJ9Q03TTcEWF-HfbK5KBup5dlGLjfNKEBJOG6sQdoDshMbKAzpNsLbD_nWcp6a8hEGDdK3V-kCxaTJvlnCINm3NTujxe-aLRUY9FrRyqA8vRdceExmddERNFnP7g-zlvczyxyR0SbV8xJFbYjkkNnsFAHKoJdyG1UYoyhDfYqXOk51XiHhnlunqJ/w400-h266/P1060384.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once that quilt was finished, I layered up the "mini-plaidish" top made earlier in the year and went to work on it. It took about a week of mini-sessions -- 30 to 45 minutes -- straight lines from edge to edge (so there were only three sets of threads to bury for bobbin changes) to reinforce the "plaid" motif of the piecing.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAorjA1QzKDIsRcEJXICOqOKF62L5bGhjiYcQfkI8DGpKgnXwc59Jt0_ozjy1KFYAuIEhKxVq0GsCoroLpZwpccB4dK8pkYGFpbLYKNWlyNFqZEtd9KkdajYfC2HuuBZEou3zmMZakKOlvBVjeBSKshv0wt0S9QY4ze-5R5dJlrjZb1397tjv8OzyAip-Y/s3120/IMG_20231124_092743.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAorjA1QzKDIsRcEJXICOqOKF62L5bGhjiYcQfkI8DGpKgnXwc59Jt0_ozjy1KFYAuIEhKxVq0GsCoroLpZwpccB4dK8pkYGFpbLYKNWlyNFqZEtd9KkdajYfC2HuuBZEou3zmMZakKOlvBVjeBSKshv0wt0S9QY4ze-5R5dJlrjZb1397tjv8OzyAip-Y/w640-h640/IMG_20231124_092743.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I posted the picture below on my Instagram feed, a friend in Maryland commented that she started one from her scraps and got rid of it because she didn't like it. As I was reading her comment, I realized, I had some moments of "not liking" my version, too. I find that is often the case with a truly scrappy quilt. We are so programmed to coordinated fabric palettes for our quilts that it feels wrong if the fabric style or the color palette isn't perfectly coordinated. And yet when I push through to the end of a scrappy project, the response to it is almost universally positive. True scrap quilts that have no coordination outside of the "value" of the colors -- light, medium, or dark -- never look good until they are finished in my opinion.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDynXNWcARDrmO1frsNdNtlQ2DpN3S-agIEFXv4AwR67kOh3CPgYOxlLS0KKiMUHemRpkyfJ76tb-w-2zCCL05ogtC8vgt1h-3ORJYg3rp1AVuUYAdwCOgMPTGfDxiZs_CzGYdKmIERnaSrx_UlFnZ7wJHR2iwZOjrakpxSn7M5wPG7y-Rk6S6Hb2Cx05/s3120/IMG_20231128_135153.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVDynXNWcARDrmO1frsNdNtlQ2DpN3S-agIEFXv4AwR67kOh3CPgYOxlLS0KKiMUHemRpkyfJ76tb-w-2zCCL05ogtC8vgt1h-3ORJYg3rp1AVuUYAdwCOgMPTGfDxiZs_CzGYdKmIERnaSrx_UlFnZ7wJHR2iwZOjrakpxSn7M5wPG7y-Rk6S6Hb2Cx05/w640-h640/IMG_20231128_135153.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now I've started a big knitting project -- new cardigan sweaters for the my toddler triplet grandchildren! Two are finished and one is at the halfway point so unless finding buttons for each one becomes a problem, I'll be finished in plenty of time for Christmas. But that effort has cut into my stitching time and I'm a bit behind on my year long applique BOM. This evening, I'll applique the last three pieces to Block #11 (below) putting me just one block from "the end"!! The "staying" power I've experienced with this project has surprised me -- again not my typical MO. Too often in the past, I've dropped a project and headed down another appealing path with a new project. There is still a long way to go -- the top has to be assembled, then conquer my fear of quilting (what if I ruin it at that stage), and doing the actual quilting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdU_pD2gqkKLRHL2PWsUqJ53WzGtyCANj62fXTarHufsnd8qhY0DabqIyZZv5rpysRXKSKM0GYNwYeppkMckuh2re5vWfLb-wnnJ4xxDkbyQLz67dyUGeBLjuBR-i5bBXP4GhQt5d0WJm7RWqG1GHsnuueYsSbJzdgQj7H1f01bluVIBYXPF_UxfwYvv5d/s3305/P1060392.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3305" data-original-width="3272" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdU_pD2gqkKLRHL2PWsUqJ53WzGtyCANj62fXTarHufsnd8qhY0DabqIyZZv5rpysRXKSKM0GYNwYeppkMckuh2re5vWfLb-wnnJ4xxDkbyQLz67dyUGeBLjuBR-i5bBXP4GhQt5d0WJm7RWqG1GHsnuueYsSbJzdgQj7H1f01bluVIBYXPF_UxfwYvv5d/w634-h640/P1060392.JPG" width="634" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While I was in the sewing room prepping the last few pieces for #11 this afternoon, I pulled the pattern for #12 out -- lots of little pieces!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJDXPUUJyESL_5_D5-1O8zqjnNmN55O6f9SYmd0EKrGl60gm8cWr-irULGq7ne75ix0TQPFiWKosIRn7etDTBnB8CyVigJCPDn5yS8g1JRieX6bKLGFwdbNMSIflxa6TNYL3qlgthZJbNAch5N8tFIGCcLnE41V9OwrxrrnXgf_9CXXbsqVaEIAUviND0/s5244/P1060395.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5244" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXJDXPUUJyESL_5_D5-1O8zqjnNmN55O6f9SYmd0EKrGl60gm8cWr-irULGq7ne75ix0TQPFiWKosIRn7etDTBnB8CyVigJCPDn5yS8g1JRieX6bKLGFwdbNMSIflxa6TNYL3qlgthZJbNAch5N8tFIGCcLnE41V9OwrxrrnXgf_9CXXbsqVaEIAUviND0/w400-h279/P1060395.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But since we sold the patterns with a fabric kit, everything is ready for me to match the fabrics from the kit to the picture and keep moving along. I'll have this block done by the end of the month!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganos1rwzZAIJf5diAcdad38_pV45RcY55xT61N07pjPPX4eKkZIc-cJejklr01R2elIrMwD6FamyRe0QkESFHOaB0w3Hiddfvbsn4j8krVTv4y-9c8kqNdTll3RNaGECgXXF_jjlm9yPMzOQmiCBRQSj9MAlNKZ9iNz346xNfeB611x44VdirVhZsJOzE/s4960/P1060396.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3490" data-original-width="4960" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEganos1rwzZAIJf5diAcdad38_pV45RcY55xT61N07pjPPX4eKkZIc-cJejklr01R2elIrMwD6FamyRe0QkESFHOaB0w3Hiddfvbsn4j8krVTv4y-9c8kqNdTll3RNaGECgXXF_jjlm9yPMzOQmiCBRQSj9MAlNKZ9iNz346xNfeB611x44VdirVhZsJOzE/w400-h281/P1060396.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be winding down my quilting goals for 2023 this month, too. Some I've met with great success and others . . . . not so much, but there's always next year! The rest of the month is filled with Christmas Bird Counts, tidying up the house for holiday visiting, and a bit of baking so I can be sure to put on a winter's worth of 5 pounds of scones and biscotti?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOiRxHLnVhZG5SX_nxI2ZLq3ii5ffLXVWhv8l2ymK0o0vFhbNdXxo1GhW2Iv-v__Xg0iZwCIusJZ8FQyPN_PJTq4_McsPczhQweYiMFlGeNZ8Mb9Pt9Si5EVuadOfXQypwOhF2qHs_-DSiZg2yBp7GUUXXjcrir_E5FDrGYlWYVLkYSlRZgSlZLBVWKTz/s3120/IMG_20231206_080612.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="3120" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtOiRxHLnVhZG5SX_nxI2ZLq3ii5ffLXVWhv8l2ymK0o0vFhbNdXxo1GhW2Iv-v__Xg0iZwCIusJZ8FQyPN_PJTq4_McsPczhQweYiMFlGeNZ8Mb9Pt9Si5EVuadOfXQypwOhF2qHs_-DSiZg2yBp7GUUXXjcrir_E5FDrGYlWYVLkYSlRZgSlZLBVWKTz/w400-h400/IMG_20231206_080612.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Check out these yummy, sourdough scones! The basic recipe is from<a href="https://www.farmhouseonboone.com/sourdough-scones" target="_blank"> farmhouseonboone.com</a> -- decked this batch out with a cup of raw chopped cranberries and a dash of Fiori di Sicilia (orange/vanilla flavoring I get from King Arthur Baking). I'm enjoying this recipe because I can mix the batter up in the evening, shape the scones and put it in the fridge overnight for a "first thing in the morning" bake!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hope you make good progress on any holiday gift sewing you need to finish.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-44812135175914212432023-11-09T15:57:00.000-08:002023-11-09T15:57:16.359-08:00Basics of a Successful UFO Assault Strategy<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> It's that time of year again when I'm torn between reaching my annual goals and creating gifts. This produces an element of self-inflicted stress so I was happy to run across a little handout I created perhaps 15 years ago as part of my curriculum for lectures and workshops helping quilters deal with UFO's. I listed three points that made a difference in my personal quest and as I read through my handout, I realized that, thank goodness, these are now regular habits for me. So I decided to review them with you in this month's post with some illustrations of how I am currently deploying these strategies. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps one of them will strike a chord for you?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>First, change your viewpoint about your UFO's -- think of them as a resource instead of a burden</b></u>. If you haven't already noticed in reading my posts, I know what UFO's I have and they are organized for easy access. As I review my UFO stock regularly, I have found that the older something gets, the easier it is for me to redirect it! So let's repurpose!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Case in point -- that 5" charm pak of Christmas fabric that has been laying on the "reserved-for-something-wonderful" shelf (since 2019) has lost it's inspiration -- what was I going to do with it?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since I had no clue, last week it became 5 potholders -- quick and easy project -- 4 squares for the backs, 4 more squares cut into 2 1/2" squares for the fronts. They will be offered for sale at a little holiday boutique next week and if they don't sell -- they will become holiday gifts. (Or worse case scenario, they will refresh my kitchen's supply.) And that charm pak can never trigger guilt again!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOFJetOVn42nAAmBNSiSytYMO0T0hjCG1DciBJJ0FNYsFI8uv_yqv3F0CHIkE8NxLgKq2EQoGJ4ipRda-kzgY_WufgwKrcNaUWQ96V7EUNGuD80j35cc_Om_vJJdTgOymtdY30uikCd7-ETsGHkGt6z0UQlI20aqxbY0YJ8QNUOYk3b2uXRLpBm9SZL2_/s4630/P1060375%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3606" data-original-width="4630" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpOFJetOVn42nAAmBNSiSytYMO0T0hjCG1DciBJJ0FNYsFI8uv_yqv3F0CHIkE8NxLgKq2EQoGJ4ipRda-kzgY_WufgwKrcNaUWQ96V7EUNGuD80j35cc_Om_vJJdTgOymtdY30uikCd7-ETsGHkGt6z0UQlI20aqxbY0YJ8QNUOYk3b2uXRLpBm9SZL2_/w640-h498/P1060375%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><u><b>Second, figure out why you stopped working on it!</b></u> Understanding that helps me get back to work on a project. It has become an avenue for perfecting my skills and expanding my creativity, especially when I'm able to repurpose a UFO into something easier to finish while still being useful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Case in point -- I'm currently tidying up flat surfaces all around the house and in the process of dealing with a small tabletop behind my sewing machine I found a few blocks of a forgotten teaching sample with a stack of matching fabric (to make a bigger quilt?). </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWSh_aKL0ecdTpA8jmMMyzjp-BvNRTGZRXHAgNricFwQIhHu2eBf6IRONXfYZRj82RT-KcjRaUviZ4z94m7Hw9TRj9DRguLkZrFHG2GxABdqMm11ucvFCELyty9G9VNkXohslxBJtMtm9fE-rEhMkkfqKdbMqwYhChwS8_EZpLVuqKHPhNB-ahX6HjGhp/s4667/P1060378%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3178" data-original-width="4667" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWSh_aKL0ecdTpA8jmMMyzjp-BvNRTGZRXHAgNricFwQIhHu2eBf6IRONXfYZRj82RT-KcjRaUviZ4z94m7Hw9TRj9DRguLkZrFHG2GxABdqMm11ucvFCELyty9G9VNkXohslxBJtMtm9fE-rEhMkkfqKdbMqwYhChwS8_EZpLVuqKHPhNB-ahX6HjGhp/w640-h436/P1060378%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Realizing how little progress I've made on that goal (the bigger quilt) in 15 years, I spent an afternoon piecing the blocks that were already cut and playing with them until I found an arrangement I like for a small quilt top that will be a quick finish. And bonus!! The stack of fabric is back on the stash shelves where it has a better chance of being used!!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKPU9ICtkwqDsfH4NtPWV-tVsEci9S_hr-c38aRivfX3E3Ad88LCJGV8Gj3hulQGMDf7QWJkQi5PZ5uwpdkzX4BvDr3wT-JSki6q7nRAMSY1AxSuRvnVX2GeBOsj9KRX6UiWW8e0YcAZdjOYnRce-vvAVTCGewhVf3ZjnWxyIAjlmpcPaoS-xG6vAbzaE/s3700/P1060372%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3504" data-original-width="3700" height="606" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirKPU9ICtkwqDsfH4NtPWV-tVsEci9S_hr-c38aRivfX3E3Ad88LCJGV8Gj3hulQGMDf7QWJkQi5PZ5uwpdkzX4BvDr3wT-JSki6q7nRAMSY1AxSuRvnVX2GeBOsj9KRX6UiWW8e0YcAZdjOYnRce-vvAVTCGewhVf3ZjnWxyIAjlmpcPaoS-xG6vAbzaE/w640-h606/P1060372%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Confession -- this is also a fine example of "productive procrastination" as I was suppose to be doing "something else"? . . . . but gosh, it's going to be cute and those blocks have moved OUT of the UFO stash.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Third, work at your craft every day!</u></b> 20 minutes a day equals 2 hours a week and 30 minutes a day equals 3 1/2 hours a week! Daily bursts of work were critical when I was working full time and that habit continues to move me forward faster than trying to find big blocks of time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> (Plus now that I'm retired, 20 minutes usually stretches into 45 minutes.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">How do you think I get so many quilts finished in the course of a year? Not by spending long hours at the machine. Currently, I'm trying to knock-off a few tops I've pieced this year so they don't become UFO's! Most mornings, I begin with 30 minutes of machine quilting. That's about 15 minutes less time than it takes for my shoulders or neck to start aching. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAK8pxOWR8en75f9nf1WpWrAmnhP6R3ISx_snX8g-HQl6Kz7JgIXht3FwvNbt_Y6ot9ejsl68Ds5z6RGm7ITyGngONpQ8FE3RZ8mPnGc2h-Hhm0r8sb3NEfQqxFLQJb7V_FIes2gz8ofe78vtGvO6CS9PLOBlO4wc81TSCziyQ-s4de411hKdRqu3uQ3X1/s5472/P1060367.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAK8pxOWR8en75f9nf1WpWrAmnhP6R3ISx_snX8g-HQl6Kz7JgIXht3FwvNbt_Y6ot9ejsl68Ds5z6RGm7ITyGngONpQ8FE3RZ8mPnGc2h-Hhm0r8sb3NEfQqxFLQJb7V_FIes2gz8ofe78vtGvO6CS9PLOBlO4wc81TSCziyQ-s4de411hKdRqu3uQ3X1/w640-h426/P1060367.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Dresden Stars quilt top I made this summer for the sew-along is my current project and coming along nicely. Tomorrow I'll start quilting the borders and it should be ready to bind in three or four days. That means it is time to revisit the "to be quilted" stack and layer up a couple more tops so I don't lose momentum!?! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since my current focus is on finishing (no new piecing projects until I get caught up with the quilting!) I did let myself whip up a few little gift items just so my sewing machine didn't forget who I was?!? Mug cozies (that used up some crazy scrap piecing blocks), little change purses, and some tea wallets for my club sale next week!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBLYm0Y_O4XRhYSpWXmzMQ7yiSp2um2geUkYr5iQKnb_EedknuUrYKMFpApHWkTSspeoAWI572TjaHjJ2FIiJv2k9ssi-g2sLDMSNQDej8xxiPe3euVDCgdNbSkWlKjgf9X8mMmvJY2qA1LRYhN0b8hNHX4jrqRlkqZ73FjrS5iVQ18Ugzl3rbtWrdKApV/s5205/P1060374%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="5205" height="448" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBLYm0Y_O4XRhYSpWXmzMQ7yiSp2um2geUkYr5iQKnb_EedknuUrYKMFpApHWkTSspeoAWI572TjaHjJ2FIiJv2k9ssi-g2sLDMSNQDej8xxiPe3euVDCgdNbSkWlKjgf9X8mMmvJY2qA1LRYhN0b8hNHX4jrqRlkqZ73FjrS5iVQ18Ugzl3rbtWrdKApV/w640-h448/P1060374%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Post script -- diving into my UFO's also seems to be a way to energize myself. Not only do I "accomplish" something but I reduce the burden of "so much to do". Taking a break from the excited frenzy of starting new projects and clearing out a few old projects has become a good cleansing activity for me. But don't worry, a couple new projects are in the wings as I write this!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyGPk39EHyWgnE1CYg74fb2do4KK-n5bzIx1zSvvPuq37MO8YfkeI59Z7zKzX_7gnco_KVAanEBKlWnnsRS-qr8fAMyK4v5riaEWyTImT3_IVKtpjVKXjGDnh7rCZ9aunyfB-gW-P4LYdLDK-A3Za41YQE3OHJAsdVIk7vRDUOypGukZCgSDERSWAm1L6/s3533/P1060379%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2918" data-original-width="3533" height="528" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTyGPk39EHyWgnE1CYg74fb2do4KK-n5bzIx1zSvvPuq37MO8YfkeI59Z7zKzX_7gnco_KVAanEBKlWnnsRS-qr8fAMyK4v5riaEWyTImT3_IVKtpjVKXjGDnh7rCZ9aunyfB-gW-P4LYdLDK-A3Za41YQE3OHJAsdVIk7vRDUOypGukZCgSDERSWAm1L6/w640-h528/P1060379%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I must do something fabulous with these two fabrics!! Are they one project or two??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now back to the sewing machine!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> </span></div><br /><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-17702264527459424812023-10-02T07:36:00.000-07:002023-10-02T07:36:52.092-07:00Accountability -- Third Quarter 2023 Review<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> While there has been a long "radio silence" here on the blog for over a month, my sewing fingers have been busy. I realized in mid-August as I finished up the Dresden Stars tutorial series for the sew-along, that the "tops to be quilted" pile was growing a bit faster than is good for my overriding goal to never have a big pile of UFO's again. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Time to slow down on the piecing and the starting of new tops! I was in the middle of a couple new starts which I needed/wanted to finish to eliminate the piecing distraction so I could focus on the quilting.</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I had succumbed to the mini-plaidish sew along earlier in August when I realized I could cut most of the pieces out of my scrap boxes of 3", 2 1/2" and 1 1/2" strips. It wasn't even like I was starting a new project because after all, everything was practially cut?!? Never heard of the Plaidish quilt? -- <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/miniplaidishqal/" target="_blank">check out this Instagram hashtag collection HERE</a>. It's the brainchild of Erica at Kitchen Table Quilting and the instructions are very clear so it was easy and fun to organize the blocks and watch them become a plaidish quilt top. </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This is a laprobe and destined to be a holiday gift for someone.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDJ3yFpIw81ttsP3p4Rus0-jgVELCHPjzX5WTE3ZZSs_n0GB4OL4gFeagXoisAFup9DpSd6WwoEIUJGJ7KxolgF6jyZM-Gv_oBIaZSMyCB6C5dkdfJ5qcqhYcse07pWYSRB76Y1cyGZi9EGFBnQF-zZjy_lmdXHqJM35E1QYFWKdf4Rh8AhdR4KASfLkF/s4082/P1060312%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4082" data-original-width="3171" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuDJ3yFpIw81ttsP3p4Rus0-jgVELCHPjzX5WTE3ZZSs_n0GB4OL4gFeagXoisAFup9DpSd6WwoEIUJGJ7KxolgF6jyZM-Gv_oBIaZSMyCB6C5dkdfJ5qcqhYcse07pWYSRB76Y1cyGZi9EGFBnQF-zZjy_lmdXHqJM35E1QYFWKdf4Rh8AhdR4KASfLkF/w498-h640/P1060312%20(2).JPG" width="498" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And would you look at the backing!?! I'm stretched to make backings these days as most of my big stash pieces are gorgeous florals which aren't always as versatile as I would like. Plus the yardages are smaller. So every backing is becoming a challenge but I'm very pleased with this one!! Using the stash is always a priority!!</span></div></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGmOB2Yb2y4sgzuTtI_GZzb8b_9p7woYcbpZGSdQ6R6jngSYdbxeALXyo2OGQpcvWfBLGPJmABmCDnezRKEFOpC1A-ttYbogrBJ1_T4aGrn4hRKODgy19XA7V8hKtefCVsXk_XYbVUI99Kd1SNzYIxR6KwHWEbW5N4W5cSvMoJN4nokKJZ29BlbF3gAlg/s3869/P1060317%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3869" data-original-width="3092" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMGmOB2Yb2y4sgzuTtI_GZzb8b_9p7woYcbpZGSdQ6R6jngSYdbxeALXyo2OGQpcvWfBLGPJmABmCDnezRKEFOpC1A-ttYbogrBJ1_T4aGrn4hRKODgy19XA7V8hKtefCVsXk_XYbVUI99Kd1SNzYIxR6KwHWEbW5N4W5cSvMoJN4nokKJZ29BlbF3gAlg/w512-h640/P1060317%20(2).JPG" width="512" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Did you start this quilt along? I loved the cover quilt and started with the group earlier in the year but lost interest rather quickly. It may be because I wasn't working with bright cheery prints -- using my stash of traditional reproduction prints which I enjoy working with but . . . . or maybe just lack of focus. Bright, new, shiny -- you know the feeling!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUKvZ7BYrrTHHD0jrdlAunE5Jrtz2AHyyJw1tCwUcDiEmsqoIVTpiCNJpzFs8527Zi4Vrrl-kY6y5z-W35RvYO0hh8P7qm6Mz1Ui9wCbbyPj7fIab_EUPOnPBUp3tzDkBHK2J2NDyg3bO3aBSrorUpL4Xwmq765rnPr4gOblkP3h5T8N15NOcww7-B1JI/s4267/P1060321%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4267" data-original-width="3393" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvUKvZ7BYrrTHHD0jrdlAunE5Jrtz2AHyyJw1tCwUcDiEmsqoIVTpiCNJpzFs8527Zi4Vrrl-kY6y5z-W35RvYO0hh8P7qm6Mz1Ui9wCbbyPj7fIab_EUPOnPBUp3tzDkBHK2J2NDyg3bO3aBSrorUpL4Xwmq765rnPr4gOblkP3h5T8N15NOcww7-B1JI/w318-h400/P1060321%20(2).JPG" width="318" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I quit at "this many" blocks thinking another laprobe. I set the blocks together and was trying to decide if it needed a border since it was a bit skinny -- only 36" wide -- and I thought what am I going to do with another laprobe??? </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqyDExghk2rJTbvC_oNeCgDmy_wxmW6UDj5PhWaa1i_gGAJQZsnMHhbZV2eCtla78RTg3ziuTsTGmQMKYeUdt2xdB5nN5MSWqcgLED9Kp9-4eLo2mvvt6tceFlj1CU8U1UBs3g2GOUwQqya0trD8E1HSlZq5wG2Wj0tefpAZVV7Yq9X97fnFItUkh0rvR/s3449/P1060319%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3449" data-original-width="2394" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsqyDExghk2rJTbvC_oNeCgDmy_wxmW6UDj5PhWaa1i_gGAJQZsnMHhbZV2eCtla78RTg3ziuTsTGmQMKYeUdt2xdB5nN5MSWqcgLED9Kp9-4eLo2mvvt6tceFlj1CU8U1UBs3g2GOUwQqya0trD8E1HSlZq5wG2Wj0tefpAZVV7Yq9X97fnFItUkh0rvR/w444-h640/P1060319%20(2).JPG" width="444" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So I didn't add borders (it's the rebel in me) and split the center seam crosswise for two wheel chair laprobes that I know I'll be able to donate locally!! This one is quilted with simple cross hatching and the second will be ready later this week!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">(The quilt is square but I always seem to hold the camera cock-eyed.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-vj16SXJYM5gkT_R8tLDYiUIOlUVB0NOqcHbzlINZIpmJS0QvGoSJWwXHE_4YGEyW88LvbsGInt87gzSQhe9s-vh6bCxfvEOj6V4ld0Gd8XKvXGg6mD6fVC3p5MSrDFH1mlKkr4XcaXKx1QwCU9C-70P9lK4s64WILjPDptQI9vp_O7ttlBqoILv4EwH/s4453/P1060366%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4453" data-original-width="3648" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE-vj16SXJYM5gkT_R8tLDYiUIOlUVB0NOqcHbzlINZIpmJS0QvGoSJWwXHE_4YGEyW88LvbsGInt87gzSQhe9s-vh6bCxfvEOj6V4ld0Gd8XKvXGg6mD6fVC3p5MSrDFH1mlKkr4XcaXKx1QwCU9C-70P9lK4s64WILjPDptQI9vp_O7ttlBqoILv4EwH/w524-h640/P1060366%20(2).JPG" width="524" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each one is 27" by 36" -- three afternoons to finish!!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Since the scrap baskets were still out from the Plaidish quilt . . . </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFvhzPus6BL-up7JKcktT0e7iNRF7UdrQx84cPWFp6yAetaSHlWvFmmHV5A-URUZ5XtHyD7pGNLye6bOVNJ19KqYQa3W0mDTg9nnrt0ddZI4BEOHS49OY2yA0QQ1xIJy-cz_9m-HiZJAyLLNDGKqchyphenhyphenN4DeqlTAktzYhGpsfMYrSUvOJdoEPyeOd8_EHk/s5472/P1060325.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIFvhzPus6BL-up7JKcktT0e7iNRF7UdrQx84cPWFp6yAetaSHlWvFmmHV5A-URUZ5XtHyD7pGNLye6bOVNJ19KqYQa3W0mDTg9nnrt0ddZI4BEOHS49OY2yA0QQ1xIJy-cz_9m-HiZJAyLLNDGKqchyphenhyphenN4DeqlTAktzYhGpsfMYrSUvOJdoEPyeOd8_EHk/w400-h266/P1060325.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">and I've been wanting to replace this much loved and worn Trip Around the World for a couple years. . . . .</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUpBxyrY8af7j-cPtAQZysXxrfr4JPPAnQusLOeHe37HOJWAxhiU8OMR2MYkIets7ohhVn6vKrlgW34WnOeUhqg2M2lUrW27nnGwTysi4GrgsKOuTRqS6S2hyo_4dv3NmcI86YslxSi-0DALOBh_RgTGYWdk68_GFG39LMv3tA5QuD2BGnw5gzhx7mE0Ks/s5472/P1060329.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUpBxyrY8af7j-cPtAQZysXxrfr4JPPAnQusLOeHe37HOJWAxhiU8OMR2MYkIets7ohhVn6vKrlgW34WnOeUhqg2M2lUrW27nnGwTysi4GrgsKOuTRqS6S2hyo_4dv3NmcI86YslxSi-0DALOBh_RgTGYWdk68_GFG39LMv3tA5QuD2BGnw5gzhx7mE0Ks/w400-h266/P1060329.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> I didn't resist -- it was a fast job!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoE8J3NveqbcT3bIiOHASXW_wLYiBnIW1169ADcQhu_SDcenWIMyFp9-njW7Z-k_UfkYEzgHoJfF_u_Vcg4Cvcq0ls82a1BmZnH0PmAOGzEF8SyWoR2KpCgfTW76bye2EnCilA3FPGPjkOA5atOrgeBR3UmX3XUmTAogxwWGk9ETTT3cFc0GKjjMznxoB/s3793/P1060324%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2541" data-original-width="3793" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxoE8J3NveqbcT3bIiOHASXW_wLYiBnIW1169ADcQhu_SDcenWIMyFp9-njW7Z-k_UfkYEzgHoJfF_u_Vcg4Cvcq0ls82a1BmZnH0PmAOGzEF8SyWoR2KpCgfTW76bye2EnCilA3FPGPjkOA5atOrgeBR3UmX3XUmTAogxwWGk9ETTT3cFc0GKjjMznxoB/w400-h268/P1060324%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Most of the squares were already cut (again, is it a new start?). I followed the original quilt's light, medium, dark of a color rainbow look laying out a row at a time and piecing it as "leaders and enders" for other sewing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HCjjxNHsLIddm9L4h8RsiFExqgZT3Rgmh_4N6V-cxY-vOIqFnNSaKJz7r3x5xln4TRce2UXxBIw2OKMu5F-NS75mcdOcWwATlV8USv5tTNL8eRr3C5CytLxJHf8ZsEwT_UiNfbUcCyLpjWKw2YRuEeZ-IeSCzonas00hIysZSGKaUdacd1othq2O-1Kv/s4160/IMG_20230825_105829482.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="1872" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-HCjjxNHsLIddm9L4h8RsiFExqgZT3Rgmh_4N6V-cxY-vOIqFnNSaKJz7r3x5xln4TRce2UXxBIw2OKMu5F-NS75mcdOcWwATlV8USv5tTNL8eRr3C5CytLxJHf8ZsEwT_UiNfbUcCyLpjWKw2YRuEeZ-IeSCzonas00hIysZSGKaUdacd1othq2O-1Kv/w361-h640/IMG_20230825_105829482.jpg" width="361" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Isn't it fun!! It used up about 825 squares of scraps - yes!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I think it will be a gift, too which might mean I'll have to make another one after the first of the year?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UUjurGfl97gESCjfFzwMMiQamfToIMSSh-kgKQu6MPQphwdUVxOUdACPTK_TieXXyzc_eSjzaiUKdebrKTMazg3qitSvK4u6nmorOwSAyBngg-0k93x92P8o9jvCmzrIu4pW2uMUlFhkbqpI4N6QkLeK4cYOy0yY12PCuM3PF5zcfnWtj_QwrZoLufcj/s4350/P1060328%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4350" data-original-width="3070" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_UUjurGfl97gESCjfFzwMMiQamfToIMSSh-kgKQu6MPQphwdUVxOUdACPTK_TieXXyzc_eSjzaiUKdebrKTMazg3qitSvK4u6nmorOwSAyBngg-0k93x92P8o9jvCmzrIu4pW2uMUlFhkbqpI4N6QkLeK4cYOy0yY12PCuM3PF5zcfnWtj_QwrZoLufcj/w452-h640/P1060328%20(2).JPG" width="452" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Time to document my progress on the 2023 goals!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><u><b>1. Finish six more UFO's from the leftover 2022 list.</b></u> With the two table runner finishes below, I have crossed five of the six off my list! This finish was a one afternoon project -- don't you always find yourself saying "that was so easy, why didn't I do it sooner?" I have the answer!! It's because we didn't have a reason to finish. This one will be a gift this fall and the one in the photo for goal #5 has been donated -- found a reason, did the finish!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoKndlaNMihM-B6xJQ3oKMdvpKYXqzidUF9InS-Arhf71LYN4hmBhyphenhyphenlJEWKW2tdbLmuShTfF5hWTfNPc12TznZ_cI4lqRMq9_OXB-Ugx-u58dDsXOeMhXwZn9i0flGlUi1lKFC4QiwbXp40iOE-_PV8IA7eK7EFE-_1UoQDTaix9pIRTC2igQc6bru2Wl/s4927/P1060330%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3136" data-original-width="4927" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikoKndlaNMihM-B6xJQ3oKMdvpKYXqzidUF9InS-Arhf71LYN4hmBhyphenhyphenlJEWKW2tdbLmuShTfF5hWTfNPc12TznZ_cI4lqRMq9_OXB-Ugx-u58dDsXOeMhXwZn9i0flGlUi1lKFC4QiwbXp40iOE-_PV8IA7eK7EFE-_1UoQDTaix9pIRTC2igQc6bru2Wl/w640-h408/P1060330%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">The final UFO on this list is the Dresden Stars top I pieced in August and that might be the next top to be layered up for some machine quilting. You didn't realize it was in my UFO stack did you?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"> I could reach this goal for 2023!</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">2. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">Quilt the new tops I made in 2022</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><b>.</b> No new progress here }-: but my fall plan is to get one of the tops on that list of five layered and begin handquilting it now that evenings are starting earlier -- autumnal nesting, you know.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">3. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">Deal with all the antique/vintage quilt tops I own</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><b>.</b> And no new progress here either. I need a big dose of courage and more focus with fewer distractions -- maybe this will be my only goal in 2024? </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">4. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;">If/when I start new projects, chose from a list of seven.</u></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"> I have not started any new projects from this list since January, but the progress on the two underway has been steady. The Hextraganza quilt top is set together. When I posted my progress on Instagram last week, the pattern designer left a lovely comment which gave me a thrill!! This will be a finished top by year's end!!</span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxc1hbuP1THphXyQsFeb2iWeFt177mZMtFPJ0C5EQ6mICxj83Q60fa9h6sSWG9qCVISmo9jybMTde-8wH82ZK918uYkH5n8nw_WP1E80J326wvQTw1iz1mLSmsvq9rbYjImcyT7NjkitMoD93PGX1_U14pFNgl5YdSnNz7mtVmbhl5wc6p23P464CL35YO/s3938/P1060364%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3938" data-original-width="3033" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxc1hbuP1THphXyQsFeb2iWeFt177mZMtFPJ0C5EQ6mICxj83Q60fa9h6sSWG9qCVISmo9jybMTde-8wH82ZK918uYkH5n8nw_WP1E80J326wvQTw1iz1mLSmsvq9rbYjImcyT7NjkitMoD93PGX1_U14pFNgl5YdSnNz7mtVmbhl5wc6p23P464CL35YO/w492-h640/P1060364%20(2).JPG" width="492" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> I'm at the final step of appliqueing the quartered-circle motifs in place.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_aCP-fdzUhbMZwqdU1IIlkeruQ2MACbN7oRDH8aeVXLWkA-7R9blhfO0WsIJlJRMp3rdvsprau9Ies5bIhmTkiPYomLxUpN8XJUe4cdo8oj8bTBKMefBeqnZ2R6yz3qFmHhOOfd8IkLD7hs9cNESLFNl9iMl9O8ODe60PVVGEAWIQE_gSnP5K7iAFc8l/s5169/P1060365%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3505" data-original-width="5169" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-_aCP-fdzUhbMZwqdU1IIlkeruQ2MACbN7oRDH8aeVXLWkA-7R9blhfO0WsIJlJRMp3rdvsprau9Ies5bIhmTkiPYomLxUpN8XJUe4cdo8oj8bTBKMefBeqnZ2R6yz3qFmHhOOfd8IkLD7hs9cNESLFNl9iMl9O8ODe60PVVGEAWIQE_gSnP5K7iAFc8l/w640-h434/P1060365%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Plus the Flourishes applique blocks are on schedule. Nine of twelve are finished and here's the last three I stitched. Each time I finish a block, I think to myself -- "I can't believe I did it?!?" It's time to start number ten! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJYR2TV05xb0K-xo49hFr8aKS2f6qsocSsgaRK52CGbDPWEye4GryqY3yZ7qEuvlfSDWu6FqWPSkRl5tbAEqmjJ2Bcx8YFB6T9jp7jaD5rEpes96dmkek63fUrTmWywXb-ZoAs5mRl6kJpAfD9QQykxleYghjIJfudbi86qnizGizFFajw99MswAaDss1/s3302/P1060363%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3213" data-original-width="3302" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZJYR2TV05xb0K-xo49hFr8aKS2f6qsocSsgaRK52CGbDPWEye4GryqY3yZ7qEuvlfSDWu6FqWPSkRl5tbAEqmjJ2Bcx8YFB6T9jp7jaD5rEpes96dmkek63fUrTmWywXb-ZoAs5mRl6kJpAfD9QQykxleYghjIJfudbi86qnizGizFFajw99MswAaDss1/w640-h622/P1060363%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I've started to think about the setting. The pattern has a setting of course. but I might modify it so I would finish with three smaller quilts that could go to my granddaughters someday.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>5. <u>Re-home twelve finished quilts</u>.</b> I only let go of one more piece - this recently finished table topper (another cross-off from the 2022 list!!) is going to a fall fund raiser for one of my nature groups. They are a birdy bunch and the center motif of each star is a fussy cut bird print. Hopefully it appeals to lots of folks and earn the big bucks!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">(Can you believe that binding job??)</div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WyEpXIKtoA3s4dC3bWgxiufEk4T3bdpTmKAFkzyq5UGfhaaiYhu8e5T3ZUmEG3tSHveGTGxnQK1iS8yqRqRPk_77PYIoim-ypp5vGZ24V8MbpZOl0wKkBsaUptTmTPDzj4nrkoaB6VRn2S_fpIXbWVnD164rxSv-6n-VmqkTanqtS-CX-7HTUlA0boac/s4373/P1060332%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3404" data-original-width="4373" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1WyEpXIKtoA3s4dC3bWgxiufEk4T3bdpTmKAFkzyq5UGfhaaiYhu8e5T3ZUmEG3tSHveGTGxnQK1iS8yqRqRPk_77PYIoim-ypp5vGZ24V8MbpZOl0wKkBsaUptTmTPDzj4nrkoaB6VRn2S_fpIXbWVnD164rxSv-6n-VmqkTanqtS-CX-7HTUlA0boac/w640-h498/P1060332%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I've let go of twelve pieces which was my goal for 2023 but I have decided to push myself a bit and increase the goal to let go of as many pieces as I finish this year. So far I've finished thirteen quilted pieces so I'm in good shape. I hope to finish five more so that means letting go of 18 -- trying to keep a lid on the inventory growth here!?! Combined with my current intentions to donate two and to gift another two to specific people, it's shouldn't take much effort to figure out how to let go of two more quilts . . . . . should it??? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you've followed my journey as a quilter for any length of time, here or in the classroom, you know that I'm a goal-oriented quilt maker. Some say to me, do what makes you happy and don't worry about how many you finish, etc. However, I know that big stacks of UFO's are not good for my mental health. Much as I love the thrill of a new project, the relief of finishing an old project is worth setting goals and striving to reach them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Now go finish something -- that's where I'm headed!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br />Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-56526131869477950922023-08-11T08:03:00.001-07:002023-08-11T08:03:18.543-07:00Part 6 -- Dresden Star Tutorials<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Time to share the last steps -- adding borders and some quilting ideas! </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I added three borders to my finished top -- first border is the background fabric and cut 2" wide to finish at 1 1/2". Second border used up all my leftovers from the layer cake (plus a couple add-ins because it was pretty tight) -- it's cut 3" wide to finish at 2 1/2". The third border is the background fabric and cut 4" wide to finish at 3 1/2" wide.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-vJDl6Wde5bn4-NIwldJrZRlW-bg1D_RdqSy6p0qd79e3f5xo7AwCFwSisq1vneTqR1gVPPp8clGggu8sYAPTgqO-JlXdGqnBK_HcGfbxfBcrxULnY0R8zuVxn-mHTNBaDHb7IXeVfO1EjY3nN9MMzV2vd5XJdpYbsBWcN_7PfrWIx8WtpUtf7eg43G5r/s3601/P1060295%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3601" data-original-width="2673" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-vJDl6Wde5bn4-NIwldJrZRlW-bg1D_RdqSy6p0qd79e3f5xo7AwCFwSisq1vneTqR1gVPPp8clGggu8sYAPTgqO-JlXdGqnBK_HcGfbxfBcrxULnY0R8zuVxn-mHTNBaDHb7IXeVfO1EjY3nN9MMzV2vd5XJdpYbsBWcN_7PfrWIx8WtpUtf7eg43G5r/w476-h640/P1060295%20(2).JPG" width="476" /></span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The layer cake leftovers could be pieced together with straight seams but for the fun of it, I cut all the pieces on an angle that matched the angles of the star points.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I cut all the leftovers into 3" wide strips (most of them were already that width) and then laid them end to end in a "random" scrappy order -- spacing the colors evenly for a bit of balance. Once satisfied with the order, I stacked up (on the left) and worked down through the stack trimming the ends and restacked them for sewing (on the right).</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkqDhfOTBUOQqYSuWuEQ_rdHg7Joy3K7sDntjNlhycJKxY7FdtuHuGHsH02_KZCqGf75a3yRDPMpKmxgMaNqM9Kg4VhXyjfGMAbZhCNX2REuGM0mX3S9hNwoTfBJLwB0GvZtrpXXHO-Rt_8VRboAudkAAysQ-kXHKuZ0KcuZl2INRx3v1Ljz8qLvxLhIw/s5472/P1060286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkqDhfOTBUOQqYSuWuEQ_rdHg7Joy3K7sDntjNlhycJKxY7FdtuHuGHsH02_KZCqGf75a3yRDPMpKmxgMaNqM9Kg4VhXyjfGMAbZhCNX2REuGM0mX3S9hNwoTfBJLwB0GvZtrpXXHO-Rt_8VRboAudkAAysQ-kXHKuZ0KcuZl2INRx3v1Ljz8qLvxLhIw/w640-h426/P1060286.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; display: inline !important; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used the 60 degree angle on a rotary ruler to trim the ends and</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkqDhfOTBUOQqYSuWuEQ_rdHg7Joy3K7sDntjNlhycJKxY7FdtuHuGHsH02_KZCqGf75a3yRDPMpKmxgMaNqM9Kg4VhXyjfGMAbZhCNX2REuGM0mX3S9hNwoTfBJLwB0GvZtrpXXHO-Rt_8VRboAudkAAysQ-kXHKuZ0KcuZl2INRx3v1Ljz8qLvxLhIw/s5472/P1060286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZkqDhfOTBUOQqYSuWuEQ_rdHg7Joy3K7sDntjNlhycJKxY7FdtuHuGHsH02_KZCqGf75a3yRDPMpKmxgMaNqM9Kg4VhXyjfGMAbZhCNX2REuGM0mX3S9hNwoTfBJLwB0GvZtrpXXHO-Rt_8VRboAudkAAysQ-kXHKuZ0KcuZl2INRx3v1Ljz8qLvxLhIw/s5472/P1060286.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim18NmgCWxRKVd4BFbO9NQTfzqyaOiSAF4ecF5F4AO8m5hU4j_A4e4SFjY_qnXcLo-Sa-8aV872jzYT488047cLe7QQz16ESECs0u7_ph6Ax4B0Ua0qs4aMgYb7ekfwESdiEbmez2X2_tEoP205BwD6onqdwWpLR6vyeuO6v0dXwmgFORF2dZJZ0q_kcLi/s5472/P1060287.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim18NmgCWxRKVd4BFbO9NQTfzqyaOiSAF4ecF5F4AO8m5hU4j_A4e4SFjY_qnXcLo-Sa-8aV872jzYT488047cLe7QQz16ESECs0u7_ph6Ax4B0Ua0qs4aMgYb7ekfwESdiEbmez2X2_tEoP205BwD6onqdwWpLR6vyeuO6v0dXwmgFORF2dZJZ0q_kcLi/w640-h426/P1060287.JPG" width="640" /></a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">the opposite end was trimmed on the opposite angle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZL-7UDlAY05NMjLUBGvjFAyDvecpGJf76uhhYyiuF7oTGC9Qz_xoeDvXNVsnJKOHTRZ_QvJK_TTki7ovMqCtXV92umIrOcg58Cqzx4amy9VNZoACr19h1s_SHnUez3hX_YYWgXKU_ivxFYKrtlpD1puWlbDXuLz644C0_erFW6oK3eYWhzb5KLh7wetRg/s5472/P1060288.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZL-7UDlAY05NMjLUBGvjFAyDvecpGJf76uhhYyiuF7oTGC9Qz_xoeDvXNVsnJKOHTRZ_QvJK_TTki7ovMqCtXV92umIrOcg58Cqzx4amy9VNZoACr19h1s_SHnUez3hX_YYWgXKU_ivxFYKrtlpD1puWlbDXuLz644C0_erFW6oK3eYWhzb5KLh7wetRg/w640-h426/P1060288.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used my diamond template to trim the sharp points which helps with the matching as the strips are stitched together. </span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6H_3B8v3yAhna1E0m6dDtMAmpkvG3OTp7sU9lpcpTk910vOIeIQQglvD-eQHORZMF5lr3IvbSqVV38DLWr_w8vtrJpI32rCseLVSc1ex0UAAo_th21xHRt2frc5gOykgVRMa1KNvMy8mtVpUyWOBYVAPqO8wfTXI5JLxut-hV5BU9pca0p9c1EGwfI9P/s5472/P1060294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6H_3B8v3yAhna1E0m6dDtMAmpkvG3OTp7sU9lpcpTk910vOIeIQQglvD-eQHORZMF5lr3IvbSqVV38DLWr_w8vtrJpI32rCseLVSc1ex0UAAo_th21xHRt2frc5gOykgVRMa1KNvMy8mtVpUyWOBYVAPqO8wfTXI5JLxut-hV5BU9pca0p9c1EGwfI9P/s5472/P1060294.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8p9R6J8h4xM5t7W7QkKaBjtOaEDtzU44-IxqDBnP_RoiZQofAjzJIuU8yqBmxJquP0BS0BiHabA8Kf4o2wJCGFtEPVofUfM3-s0kr3sU1yhT98g3IZH_CjJLhktznNiqGusN2V_yTcZwJ3qUUtFnY-qu33zwu3lmIdcgdDkbR6WUInwEIvcIAoK6lhsvX/s5472/P1060290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8p9R6J8h4xM5t7W7QkKaBjtOaEDtzU44-IxqDBnP_RoiZQofAjzJIuU8yqBmxJquP0BS0BiHabA8Kf4o2wJCGFtEPVofUfM3-s0kr3sU1yhT98g3IZH_CjJLhktznNiqGusN2V_yTcZwJ3qUUtFnY-qu33zwu3lmIdcgdDkbR6WUInwEIvcIAoK6lhsvX/w640-h426/P1060290.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;">Lay two pieces end to end as pictured</div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBuJglmU1hEacraSCcOUGOpQNKKtQd83fTDGN-UmqsighodfUBcXWA-EV7Eq4J_FaGbWEMTFX4DkrJFsofp_u2LE9c5IbVzFUEvMx-Njc2a-JvAK2AJYyROjryGNDrYf_2eVW2SyNkMyrhkudIQJz4740AQJun9FOCpSFBrQqUBVH_cLVIe3BAsI6vcoK/s4287/P1060293%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="4287" height="340" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBuJglmU1hEacraSCcOUGOpQNKKtQd83fTDGN-UmqsighodfUBcXWA-EV7Eq4J_FaGbWEMTFX4DkrJFsofp_u2LE9c5IbVzFUEvMx-Njc2a-JvAK2AJYyROjryGNDrYf_2eVW2SyNkMyrhkudIQJz4740AQJun9FOCpSFBrQqUBVH_cLVIe3BAsI6vcoK/w400-h340/P1060293%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">then when you flip the right sides together for stitching, the alignment will be quick and accurate! You can skip the trimming step but I never do since noticing the increased accuracy of my piecing!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNruvfsbqXY5h_VBr10CSiNU3b2fAhgTOZdj-jk1cbgCji-oXImQ0Cid9aniv3k74n0hpEJIhMFPoivuOFSf9fqbAbyKdWiyhitF5H66xQZY5B7wtNiAe3TZBWKsAplx1SgyrToZH8w3T8d2TJKpUqX9ee7SbgWnNAQV3aOT34KM-u3SrX11QqI20EZnx/s4043/P1060291%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3399" data-original-width="4043" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuNruvfsbqXY5h_VBr10CSiNU3b2fAhgTOZdj-jk1cbgCji-oXImQ0Cid9aniv3k74n0hpEJIhMFPoivuOFSf9fqbAbyKdWiyhitF5H66xQZY5B7wtNiAe3TZBWKsAplx1SgyrToZH8w3T8d2TJKpUqX9ee7SbgWnNAQV3aOT34KM-u3SrX11QqI20EZnx/w400-h336/P1060291%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now just sew all the strips together into one long border band and you are ready to add it to the quilt top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI6H_3B8v3yAhna1E0m6dDtMAmpkvG3OTp7sU9lpcpTk910vOIeIQQglvD-eQHORZMF5lr3IvbSqVV38DLWr_w8vtrJpI32rCseLVSc1ex0UAAo_th21xHRt2frc5gOykgVRMa1KNvMy8mtVpUyWOBYVAPqO8wfTXI5JLxut-hV5BU9pca0p9c1EGwfI9P/w400-h266/P1060294.JPG" width="400" /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you scroll back up to the first picture and look at the lower right corner, you can see that I cut off the band when I reached the corner, squared it up and continued. I added this border "log cabin" style around the quilt to get as many "the color turned the corners" as I could.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Finally, I'm going to share the quilting designs I used on the first version I made of this quilt because I'll probably use the same ones on this version. Why make new choices???</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A striped fabric cut on the bias was the perfect binding!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The outer border was this simple straight line-curvy line repeat worked back and forth -- the straight line was worked stitching forward and the curvy line backwards sneaking along the edge of the second border to get to the beginning of the new line.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwrvmWcdQEGkF6XArUZ7GhiSqGt_pTx8kzLB5vYgloHSfhYm0cxBiEIsC3e5wJDHp0vUQV2Y_DZO12oxjoaOmQvr8Kfv2YnuP600H9ZH7m6ReNjuwwdx8HVOwffHb7i2FHTOn2wcBlWiSD5ECTjXFiH4HjRDEjn-y8hS7ZRrA3_dgrO0o3ubp0qARKBt7/s3752/P1060306%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3356" data-original-width="3752" height="572" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTwrvmWcdQEGkF6XArUZ7GhiSqGt_pTx8kzLB5vYgloHSfhYm0cxBiEIsC3e5wJDHp0vUQV2Y_DZO12oxjoaOmQvr8Kfv2YnuP600H9ZH7m6ReNjuwwdx8HVOwffHb7i2FHTOn2wcBlWiSD5ECTjXFiH4HjRDEjn-y8hS7ZRrA3_dgrO0o3ubp0qARKBt7/w640-h572/P1060306%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the setting triangles, I marked the center of each piece, then "arced" from point to center, center to point, etc. working around the triangle. It was a big "pumpkin seed" so after the first one, I added the little vein squiggle in the center of each "seed". You can also see the first border quilting -- first I stitched straight lines evenly spaced from the seams, then came back around with the curvy line. The curvy line was freehand -- you can do that!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIcZwbyiDe8IFf_rCwWjOm7Z3Tpzn6c3DemYb9OgzdkNsGb38R8Ql3m731OHieHycMBKSemiZ3ONX4y69mzTGsRIrKgTrwzBaoEZPXqh50osOj2H7j09TBqRIKRphokoFhxAC1ugW5XqNtUoZEMTSn_aLf5397An94x034CiLpDkZPhvnRr4bhsC0xdMC/s5472/P1060308.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimIcZwbyiDe8IFf_rCwWjOm7Z3Tpzn6c3DemYb9OgzdkNsGb38R8Ql3m731OHieHycMBKSemiZ3ONX4y69mzTGsRIrKgTrwzBaoEZPXqh50osOj2H7j09TBqRIKRphokoFhxAC1ugW5XqNtUoZEMTSn_aLf5397An94x034CiLpDkZPhvnRr4bhsC0xdMC/w640-h426/P1060308.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is the best picture I could get of the detail on the star points. My goal is always to do as much continuous stitching as possible to eliminate thread burying. I outlined the center hexagon "in the ditch" and as I got to each blade seam, I arced up to the point, freehand squiggled the point, and then back down to the hexagon. The result was just one beginning and one ending set of threads for each star block.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXqtvvryBejYSRBtsOLbYg9JlM-cra6HSfsThyTL8-T7zSM8Xf_mOdvmPUi6nFFWn5652cpKwUBPDLi7eL9FhTTfNZzOsiWbZBiB4v_fyz1LGUesh9kCf19LzEVt-CeGeDSuC6YSq7QmnOVnWEFTYccNzSMgY0qUSa3-krsuYuHl98vfOI-Gv1h-6KvOK/s5472/P1060309.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghXqtvvryBejYSRBtsOLbYg9JlM-cra6HSfsThyTL8-T7zSM8Xf_mOdvmPUi6nFFWn5652cpKwUBPDLi7eL9FhTTfNZzOsiWbZBiB4v_fyz1LGUesh9kCf19LzEVt-CeGeDSuC6YSq7QmnOVnWEFTYccNzSMgY0qUSa3-krsuYuHl98vfOI-Gv1h-6KvOK/w640-h426/P1060309.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The background diamonds were quilted as I outlined the blocks. Look at the bottom of the diamond below. Trace the stitching to the left along the seamline. Stop at the first line of the "maze" that you come to and then trace around the "maze". Into the center and back out. Then I stitched a few stitches along the seamline back to the beginning of the "maze", retraced my stitching and on to the next diamond. So again, one starting and one stopping set of threads to bury. The "mazes" aren't perfectly aligned -- I used the edge of my free motion foot to align things and I'm content with the results. If marking makes you happier, use my photo as a pattern for your diamonds.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15euLLfhwZsQu-A-8bDUGkt0eVxAN1-PcW8NTP2Hq3PXUr4O7-n2rOZ9R4RdbHHFV75sn0G3j2KaN2q7_p7BNDNr3i_6Z9wH4L3k7_6HUZ5E0Xug94DwAbx8AmpDPj5kk9q_ilHzwnQXN-jo3TBHZAiQlElfkaiapasIF8Iet32Ft_IdsoNnzj-9xgBp-/s5472/P1060310.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15euLLfhwZsQu-A-8bDUGkt0eVxAN1-PcW8NTP2Hq3PXUr4O7-n2rOZ9R4RdbHHFV75sn0G3j2KaN2q7_p7BNDNr3i_6Z9wH4L3k7_6HUZ5E0Xug94DwAbx8AmpDPj5kk9q_ilHzwnQXN-jo3TBHZAiQlElfkaiapasIF8Iet32Ft_IdsoNnzj-9xgBp-/w640-h426/P1060310.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have yet to layer my quilt top -- the backing is still to be pieced (but I did find yardage in my stash for that) and I've had to fix a design glitch in my pieced border!?! Scroll back up to the first picture. See those two solid looking brown strips? They were an add-in to bring more brown into the border but when I stepped back (after the borders were finished), they glared at me.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My solution?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I pulled out the tiny scraps I had left of the layer cake</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsFyfY-0tKBwUdAjU91JJTgYYcpSMtzcHEvyc2o5KwiVA_qbQ4V1OnEvE76f0R7iPdZIjXi-4p8olYULIP5I7ysuDogbJy5YjPMvfm9hCnJwnRuin-rFNMLG0aclvd83i-0609J1WMm0G49kMN6EmsMhe0biDud3IVixz1cmNmR3pksiXi7W8mB4DStyL/s3731/P1060300%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2820" data-original-width="3731" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOsFyfY-0tKBwUdAjU91JJTgYYcpSMtzcHEvyc2o5KwiVA_qbQ4V1OnEvE76f0R7iPdZIjXi-4p8olYULIP5I7ysuDogbJy5YjPMvfm9hCnJwnRuin-rFNMLG0aclvd83i-0609J1WMm0G49kMN6EmsMhe0biDud3IVixz1cmNmR3pksiXi7W8mB4DStyL/w400-h303/P1060300%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and created a pile of tiny hexagons (1/2"), basting them as for English paper piecing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhU1NmS41Rx48U5EoCKCCsWsDMbo0FQ0nN1Su6Q4LdwjRsZ2d0_YNAixm8u8VUzqUqbskJgEcSMKps8qDkxivA7PcU41k6eG7CAJydsME5JSVDtClkhbjV0qDkQS3XgTuiexNMOECbEVhCO30z0hWrIEBhtGcd9YYFqT4CMBltEsaWTR9rKqCi_zjasA5/s4315/P1060301%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3151" data-original-width="4315" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEhU1NmS41Rx48U5EoCKCCsWsDMbo0FQ0nN1Su6Q4LdwjRsZ2d0_YNAixm8u8VUzqUqbskJgEcSMKps8qDkxivA7PcU41k6eG7CAJydsME5JSVDtClkhbjV0qDkQS3XgTuiexNMOECbEVhCO30z0hWrIEBhtGcd9YYFqT4CMBltEsaWTR9rKqCi_zjasA5/w400-h293/P1060301%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I had enough to prep a few 5/8" hexagons and now I'm popping out the papers, pressing the hexagons and machine stitching them in place. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbbqcY_zm56oV4rdylVuofsllplS6kCxSTU3eg_YfItoluHOq0FZ0YdFxBhvBBCllA-n7F8mebJnC0hAFR3FGBdl5-I3ME5Db2qAMRZe7xId3hz0k6hhKFElQaeXnDUeOhu4k019XhZZo8S_GSEJmqrLMQDQpT6ppl8U2n_OKwnjOUip0dpJO6RGpgjWa/s3390/P1060303%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3390" data-original-width="2531" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbbqcY_zm56oV4rdylVuofsllplS6kCxSTU3eg_YfItoluHOq0FZ0YdFxBhvBBCllA-n7F8mebJnC0hAFR3FGBdl5-I3ME5Db2qAMRZe7xId3hz0k6hhKFElQaeXnDUeOhu4k019XhZZo8S_GSEJmqrLMQDQpT6ppl8U2n_OKwnjOUip0dpJO6RGpgjWa/w299-h400/P1060303%20(2).JPG" width="299" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To make it look like it was a "plan" all along (this is a skill you need to cultivate), I scattered some all along the border. It's working -- breaks up the brown globs perfectly but they are a pain in the ---- to stitch down so I keep getting distracted to stitching that is more "fun"!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1XFosS1n7j7teEQCoHEL_Av7j7zexpD5GNuwSX1yG00qLO5Xrw7M5hVprSdvko2EHMsVmIRZ-pWwDM6ZQHFbXwMCpYqEp6N3cZuDQTl-4QAan7aq2IMLmv4nOZIqgg6FEexpCyE0Vk3AgPCTuOwkf3D_9rWo6pyy3ZgR5bTcsjo-YpR0G3x6PAZaVzYw/s4424/P1060302%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4424" data-original-width="3025" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD1XFosS1n7j7teEQCoHEL_Av7j7zexpD5GNuwSX1yG00qLO5Xrw7M5hVprSdvko2EHMsVmIRZ-pWwDM6ZQHFbXwMCpYqEp6N3cZuDQTl-4QAan7aq2IMLmv4nOZIqgg6FEexpCyE0Vk3AgPCTuOwkf3D_9rWo6pyy3ZgR5bTcsjo-YpR0G3x6PAZaVzYw/w438-h640/P1060302%20(2).JPG" width="438" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you will give this pattern a try or at the very least, give my Set-In Piecing Simplified technique a try on your next piecing project with set-in seams. They are so much easier than you think they are going to be when you use this technique -- that's my students review of the process!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you haven't invested in my teaching guide for the technique, here's a coupon code to use for 25% off until the end of August, 2023! Click on my face up on the right side of the blog and use this code when you check out in my Etsy shop!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://maryhueyquilts.etsy.com?coupon=SETINPIECING" target="_blank">SETINPIECING</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me know if this series has been helpful and inspiring!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Mary</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-7240919548932220632023-07-26T06:20:00.000-07:002023-07-26T06:20:24.622-07:00Part 5 -- Dresden Star Tutorials<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My blocks are finished!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time to set them into the quilt top!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For the lap robe size, I'm setting the rows horizontal -- for the crib size in the pattern, I set the rows vertical. Here, I cropped the photo of my current quilt and rotated it 90 degrees to illustrate that option.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TUjecOJI20-DAmWuiIA-U5QBmp0921FYeqC4rnEBhaMjAQN9dyZQuyQWJq36bbjCyJYoOB-3RqzyEV4XpFlAKnHVL1wl1c-kEWs13PM3nno_iKHLxpxJauXqvxuwZ4JT-635xu-Jo3GCIyXi42wd739rkDsACTax5FfvSM4ajBesGBxyuClhFUS6mPGI/s3074/P1060285%20(3).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3074" data-original-width="2458" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8TUjecOJI20-DAmWuiIA-U5QBmp0921FYeqC4rnEBhaMjAQN9dyZQuyQWJq36bbjCyJYoOB-3RqzyEV4XpFlAKnHVL1wl1c-kEWs13PM3nno_iKHLxpxJauXqvxuwZ4JT-635xu-Jo3GCIyXi42wd739rkDsACTax5FfvSM4ajBesGBxyuClhFUS6mPGI/w320-h400/P1060285%20(3).JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NOTE: There are some other setting options that might appeal to you for hexagon shaped star blocks from a sew-along I did here on the blog in 2014 -- <a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/p/diamond-stars-playtime-sew-along.html" target="_blank">you can review them HERE</a>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Anytime I'm making a "scrappy" quilt, I begin the setting process by putting my finished blocks onto the design wall in a random order -- I start at the top left corner and lay the blocks in position as they come off my pile of finished blocks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then I step away for a couple hours.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I come back, what ever "jumps" out at me is what I change.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The only block that jumped this time is the second from the right in the second of the bottom row.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It grabbed my attention immediately (not in a good way) so I started moving it around.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9h_TEvDkHBMZsuaxWVmGThWAEClptqohnChRykdFTcuXg_sZEZssOo_V4SndC5TsdyxjO9B_QBI30EQTfrpL2rzy-Tz91MpLmQtG2dysTwVcRW5zBcKDImdfqYUErHbOx2eLX4epDSWkx9kDEEVs4m2rTNgmNSUfYag1aTIMXpG1hT53mMqvu2n_pWkwf/s4339/P1060226%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4339" data-original-width="3085" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9h_TEvDkHBMZsuaxWVmGThWAEClptqohnChRykdFTcuXg_sZEZssOo_V4SndC5TsdyxjO9B_QBI30EQTfrpL2rzy-Tz91MpLmQtG2dysTwVcRW5zBcKDImdfqYUErHbOx2eLX4epDSWkx9kDEEVs4m2rTNgmNSUfYag1aTIMXpG1hT53mMqvu2n_pWkwf/w456-h640/P1060226%20(2).JPG" width="456" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My goal was to minimize it's impact. Positioning it in a corner and making sure the other corner blocks were also "strong" seems to do the trick for me. I also organized the center horizontal row with the brightest blocks and that gives a focal point. I could have also put the "difficult" block in the center of the quilt if I wanted to draw attention to it.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMTMZFMgv6VfPPvqdlmRdRYMwdSEO80d0WsHeeouHc34TpzZbboK6dI7Jk_HRAsSeKJI7yS-fGvQ1d4_BcHbVah1ZQ-D2aAug_oVEVQlUHwcdG6tQyDym7t5bG6gGgKXL3rLWZKeJ6pCYyXrtXANElkOap4tmwH474bEKHCD4mEaBDqqopIw1Tf-XOwjO/s3827/P1060227%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3827" data-original-width="2799" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBMTMZFMgv6VfPPvqdlmRdRYMwdSEO80d0WsHeeouHc34TpzZbboK6dI7Jk_HRAsSeKJI7yS-fGvQ1d4_BcHbVah1ZQ-D2aAug_oVEVQlUHwcdG6tQyDym7t5bG6gGgKXL3rLWZKeJ6pCYyXrtXANElkOap4tmwH474bEKHCD4mEaBDqqopIw1Tf-XOwjO/w468-h640/P1060227%20(2).JPG" width="468" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once I was happy with the block positions, I added the setting triangles -- random placement to begin.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking through my camera is a good way to pick-up on "glaring" spots. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At this point, the quilt felt chaotic and unbalanced so I began to move triangles around.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK56w3BNNnyrPoR2B3cs6S6zOExO7hPktEReSohpydsNLjOIxdTmhHG4MaqAdMokK9ajL1vVqUVddDbWqlEbb01vAboYjH6CunJpNp7KiLc6ZPn66zKb5pyIDpteA7A_eZBIS-bx3di4li8KHsUnIJ3OSHvfJ1d7tzXA1qAFwVWe965U9XW4p5txQNsveJ/s4850/P1060238%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4850" data-original-width="3392" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjK56w3BNNnyrPoR2B3cs6S6zOExO7hPktEReSohpydsNLjOIxdTmhHG4MaqAdMokK9ajL1vVqUVddDbWqlEbb01vAboYjH6CunJpNp7KiLc6ZPn66zKb5pyIDpteA7A_eZBIS-bx3di4li8KHsUnIJ3OSHvfJ1d7tzXA1qAFwVWe965U9XW4p5txQNsveJ/w448-h640/P1060238%20(2).JPG" width="448" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">What worked for me was to organize the triangles with teal prints around the center Dresden Star -- it creates a subtle secondary star which I like but there could have been a dozen other arrangements.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's all about what appeals to your design sense.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trust your intuition -- if you are waffling, it means you don't like it!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Be sure the straight of grain on the setting triangles is laying horizontal to the quilt. This controls stretching when sewing the rows together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi8zsfvO3mUFTd3xFakj_-eRAnZJNHwMyxnhBYKjzaWAFQ2Z7l1A9x_T4GbPPGKBROYWp8kcLAaivFkExVS2uPDKXlCqFPbw0sYqyfR_s0R2Y9ToBXrKXGPCffRKNZQKsrn7eNqzB6cs3SNgGIAIgAYRn0FJrPtvIzaX4oIzU7W4eEnMwTvi-O40TH6ZJ/s4435/P1060239%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4435" data-original-width="3140" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCi8zsfvO3mUFTd3xFakj_-eRAnZJNHwMyxnhBYKjzaWAFQ2Z7l1A9x_T4GbPPGKBROYWp8kcLAaivFkExVS2uPDKXlCqFPbw0sYqyfR_s0R2Y9ToBXrKXGPCffRKNZQKsrn7eNqzB6cs3SNgGIAIgAYRn0FJrPtvIzaX4oIzU7W4eEnMwTvi-O40TH6ZJ/w454-h640/P1060239%20(2).JPG" width="454" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Can you find the four triangles that are pieced from half triangles?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After a day of rest (to be sure I liked the layout), I was ready to assemble the quilt top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The beauty of this layout is that it doesn't require any more set-in seams -- all straight from this point!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">These are the basic units to make.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tFbPwGYlgWBYskaeCzYBJjMmqH2eC0jCzYWgmP4m1PKWsCPhX7GJJLg_pBbh4qiDxHJDJM7eO5eGhR3rXLZX1kCuJnRVSSLgAhaIS8lsLZS2HDUHBhp29KYRuls7xFt5pWLa-g8ESuitcFRk6JA2PUhfC-38L9eeoCVNHofx9eVeEkajC8dAPPl4IUjs/s4024/P1060271%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3449" data-original-width="4024" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8tFbPwGYlgWBYskaeCzYBJjMmqH2eC0jCzYWgmP4m1PKWsCPhX7GJJLg_pBbh4qiDxHJDJM7eO5eGhR3rXLZX1kCuJnRVSSLgAhaIS8lsLZS2HDUHBhp29KYRuls7xFt5pWLa-g8ESuitcFRk6JA2PUhfC-38L9eeoCVNHofx9eVeEkajC8dAPPl4IUjs/w640-h548/P1060271%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you took the time to trim the corners of the triangles and half triangles as you were cutting, all that you need to do to position them is match the corners as shown here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wEjP_2rwEzfVCqZ05FRjA1RQ7NMMMBagGpQCKmmkSJEAfnr3qISzlk0sc6h5wq4RvfvAaoEmOfX4K-I-5gkLW156BUBG_8m-gbyn7gwnOwp7DjZK2-OM873KjXN0wLsyNFg8WEOC1dIfRkgbeuwgOEee3w1k0F3fetq85_qKZPtCXED3JyNkld1KWzYk/s4625/P1060273%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3318" data-original-width="4625" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2wEjP_2rwEzfVCqZ05FRjA1RQ7NMMMBagGpQCKmmkSJEAfnr3qISzlk0sc6h5wq4RvfvAaoEmOfX4K-I-5gkLW156BUBG_8m-gbyn7gwnOwp7DjZK2-OM873KjXN0wLsyNFg8WEOC1dIfRkgbeuwgOEee3w1k0F3fetq85_qKZPtCXED3JyNkld1KWzYk/w400-h288/P1060273%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and here! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVBVSjmwt-4s5DfJK42alAZE52YG6dT-jqYkluK8t1Efy5Dg9revUx4axSPRoKup39QI2XPH5lnHGKDUrE1XkeSv04O-XEiDgmJDaFLSbRTwdM2p1ePnx7bKeFzxzAcjAIAUpfv4_vDNSLsMUU_02m5KAyVdknhICOeLyOC0A_DhcVHc4-wzhYCxGy9hZ/s3411/P1060274%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3411" data-original-width="3371" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUVBVSjmwt-4s5DfJK42alAZE52YG6dT-jqYkluK8t1Efy5Dg9revUx4axSPRoKup39QI2XPH5lnHGKDUrE1XkeSv04O-XEiDgmJDaFLSbRTwdM2p1ePnx7bKeFzxzAcjAIAUpfv4_vDNSLsMUU_02m5KAyVdknhICOeLyOC0A_DhcVHc4-wzhYCxGy9hZ/w395-h400/P1060274%20(2).JPG" width="395" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press the seams toward the triangles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMZjzHak9OUF2WLNrmwijTCv7yX6sP_dmcUtvXzmmqISIQEEIJV7nqHPe0zBMKkUpCGHAuJxQUjLj_e_4OEk3ysSD6xia9ym4g0c9Us5tpBeb4yf29shdUjAjvrKn-Iq6Yc42_H9DSUib1LL8hPo4sLVCyUIvdm_mfxDejlKLakPfhjgsBhfvm8UT5z4K/s4254/P1060280%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3033" data-original-width="4254" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIMZjzHak9OUF2WLNrmwijTCv7yX6sP_dmcUtvXzmmqISIQEEIJV7nqHPe0zBMKkUpCGHAuJxQUjLj_e_4OEk3ysSD6xia9ym4g0c9Us5tpBeb4yf29shdUjAjvrKn-Iq6Yc42_H9DSUib1LL8hPo4sLVCyUIvdm_mfxDejlKLakPfhjgsBhfvm8UT5z4K/w400-h285/P1060280%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once you have all the diamond shaped units and the end units,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRM3q5YERflyySHG8uGCQEitTczGTE-hFqTTxdg1_vH7r1XuMVYmGSoOobgPKMHq2Ikg7s4tIBJurhFa58NDX8TVLfiUyKAnB5W7wg_CINevtREsFc1KVpvZ_DVejY2YGvJbo73X1dVH9LFHJjltOo7C1nYMUZRHZj8B7ePGT6nUdUUrRkUYAdGdtra29/s4487/P1060269%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="4487" height="520" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKRM3q5YERflyySHG8uGCQEitTczGTE-hFqTTxdg1_vH7r1XuMVYmGSoOobgPKMHq2Ikg7s4tIBJurhFa58NDX8TVLfiUyKAnB5W7wg_CINevtREsFc1KVpvZ_DVejY2YGvJbo73X1dVH9LFHJjltOo7C1nYMUZRHZj8B7ePGT6nUdUUrRkUYAdGdtra29/w640-h520/P1060269%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> begin to assemble the rows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is one little trick you need to know to avoid mismatched intersections as you join the units to assemble the rows. This can happen if you don't match properly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxz-Wc6K8awK83hR_jfX_BGRIH06hobLZ_Wq40WeA_5LlRe619l64mOSZyQ2aopVhiDdrHPz6IJqRe-fD2atzu3ypbCtfHOvwQiGu0OdzzuHjBdRc1AWptytKuilwZkLTXIOORp5i6jC-7lo1G1_1R0GGDFHtc7PAiiv2Z8hvjQTiNkNN_n1Z-BMsROuM/s5472/P1060275.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXxz-Wc6K8awK83hR_jfX_BGRIH06hobLZ_Wq40WeA_5LlRe619l64mOSZyQ2aopVhiDdrHPz6IJqRe-fD2atzu3ypbCtfHOvwQiGu0OdzzuHjBdRc1AWptytKuilwZkLTXIOORp5i6jC-7lo1G1_1R0GGDFHtc7PAiiv2Z8hvjQTiNkNN_n1Z-BMsROuM/w400-h266/P1060275.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is what you want!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-y8tKfV46tDfpItXBC7wO77YtU2zO6FUDCmHdoq3mYio6LY2WwiY5D5KlLg9UshAFaxVoLkaAxwJX1UwhD04GT8tJRo4y2RnNDDO-oM1u5sidYwzuCYIRgGbF_EI7rEGU8vc5IuCe68TEWCFSOfDyPUEEq652fOrlTiUOSKtbOCJSqJPtE6DRIK1xJVF/s5472/P1060276.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjB-y8tKfV46tDfpItXBC7wO77YtU2zO6FUDCmHdoq3mYio6LY2WwiY5D5KlLg9UshAFaxVoLkaAxwJX1UwhD04GT8tJRo4y2RnNDDO-oM1u5sidYwzuCYIRgGbF_EI7rEGU8vc5IuCe68TEWCFSOfDyPUEEq652fOrlTiUOSKtbOCJSqJPtE6DRIK1xJVF/w400-h266/P1060276.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can poke pins through the seam allowances and fiddle or if the seams allowances are a consistent accurate 1/4", do this.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope I got close enough with the photo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looking down "into" the seam allowances, I've discovered if I align the corner of the seam allowances on the top unit with the end of the stitching line on the lower unit -- the seams will cross/intersect 1/4" from the raw edge. It might take a few practices to do this but once you figure it out, it streamlines the matching. It's hard to convey in a picture or words, but if you do it with your units and compare it to the picture, it will make sense.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7xHzVOGU8_dm1YU1W1ssNrQ1c4LYX3MQ0MVK4m2XDt4FXEcftgW8aQPs2wPl6eFZkHAiYfNwTyJFMsJCvOyWgEFGC3LpRtIZ3GcbBs658Phs_YExjfNsmwHONFtVxL3LkwLOMTRld8kQArbHLFhDVRn7hv2DanSNUmY4BE-LGjyhO9kWJGFh5_o3Rc7x/s1502/IMG_20230723_135548273.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1460" data-original-width="1502" height="389" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN7xHzVOGU8_dm1YU1W1ssNrQ1c4LYX3MQ0MVK4m2XDt4FXEcftgW8aQPs2wPl6eFZkHAiYfNwTyJFMsJCvOyWgEFGC3LpRtIZ3GcbBs658Phs_YExjfNsmwHONFtVxL3LkwLOMTRld8kQArbHLFhDVRn7hv2DanSNUmY4BE-LGjyhO9kWJGFh5_o3Rc7x/w400-h389/IMG_20230723_135548273.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I had to fix a couple. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Usually my bad ones happen because the unit seams weren't exactly 1/4".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's a good idea to "label" the right end units with a pin or something. I flipped a row 180 degrees and while looked okay at a quick glance, it messed up my setting triangle arrangement at the center of the quilt. That will teach me not to be such a cocky bugger?!?</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflqixcza6w75fX3vevFx-9YWz0uFQ0lwLlnFpeeYbAdZRry9cBDu2tp5s56g2vlIN0vSHA-vjYtpxq0K0d8jNKkcX1zlCBITdOatEp7UVqwsj4sNu7UyAxdCq_78GIIOod88DGaBOR_HYXJioYVwNRW3RM_TlgAN5iAZxIBFv7QYW4HyvDf6ZvRCgQuZ2/s5135/P1060281%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5135" data-original-width="3435" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflqixcza6w75fX3vevFx-9YWz0uFQ0lwLlnFpeeYbAdZRry9cBDu2tp5s56g2vlIN0vSHA-vjYtpxq0K0d8jNKkcX1zlCBITdOatEp7UVqwsj4sNu7UyAxdCq_78GIIOod88DGaBOR_HYXJioYVwNRW3RM_TlgAN5iAZxIBFv7QYW4HyvDf6ZvRCgQuZ2/w428-h640/P1060281%20(2).JPG" width="428" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since the seams within the rows are angled, you can press them to either side.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the finished top ready for borders! Right now it's about 36" wide and 52" long. Once the borders are added, it should be 51" by 67".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15_MHEWw8bV4XvoKQn02rYk8mFQJ24uHVxI_DFCnkdmF0tESnh9buM_rF6pbUZdhCVP54B2WiJq_bAgIVyc8VRYZDjQxgcMfOeB4b7mu7er5Rs1VFpOv3eFm87AQ5ay9QTh4M7mLpkdAnPKXYpBY_ScVK87jVyEeguy5cUEB97Ja5M5SYMhSEAPfoW95O/s4268/P1060285%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4268" data-original-width="3074" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15_MHEWw8bV4XvoKQn02rYk8mFQJ24uHVxI_DFCnkdmF0tESnh9buM_rF6pbUZdhCVP54B2WiJq_bAgIVyc8VRYZDjQxgcMfOeB4b7mu7er5Rs1VFpOv3eFm87AQ5ay9QTh4M7mLpkdAnPKXYpBY_ScVK87jVyEeguy5cUEB97Ja5M5SYMhSEAPfoW95O/w460-h640/P1060285%20(2).JPG" width="460" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you want to make a larger quilt, every block added to the width of a horizontal setting increases the width of the quilt by about 12" and every row added increase the length by about 10".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be back in a week to walk you through the borders and share some quilting ideas!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And happy dance, I found a hunk of fabric for a backing in my stash!! With all the finishing I've been doing the past few years, those big pieces are becoming more rare in my stash?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-69781989247663113432023-07-19T06:22:00.000-07:002023-07-19T06:22:07.798-07:00Part 4 -- Dresden Star Tutorials<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;">How is piecing the Dresden Star blocks going for you? </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> It's very quiet out there so I'm assuming I'm doing such a great job on the tutorials that there is no need for questions or you are all just watching me do this??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKlgN2LhS835a4dCXbNaXbzLFkUx3l5lFcNCOXZyr-hT2rCwRAvgvgVlzGfkprPbn6swzhogiZKPlj1kgQgW9l12JYc7T5UubE1ZeGCTADVhytEJEaQi7Z-KILTKbVC3gSibZooI8MBwcLMo28VCbZnbGaLkehay0iIGI6IENaFxC7eW1sRdNOnOhZu3O/s3984/P1060225%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3612" data-original-width="3984" height="580" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimKlgN2LhS835a4dCXbNaXbzLFkUx3l5lFcNCOXZyr-hT2rCwRAvgvgVlzGfkprPbn6swzhogiZKPlj1kgQgW9l12JYc7T5UubE1ZeGCTADVhytEJEaQi7Z-KILTKbVC3gSibZooI8MBwcLMo28VCbZnbGaLkehay0iIGI6IENaFxC7eW1sRdNOnOhZu3O/w640-h580/P1060225%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Whichever it is, I'm having a good time and making steady progress. I have 13 finished star blocks and 4 half-blocks in preparation for today's post.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, I'll cover making the half-blocks and cutting the setting triangles in preparation for </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Part 5 to discuss the setting of this quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you recall, I'm using a layer cake for my blocks. I used a total of 26 squares from the layer cake for the stars. To make the half-blocks, I'm using the leftover pieces of 8 layer cake squares which measure about 3" by 10". </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7aMjVI5w7UGT7w6shnU2-VNHwlBjUezTikStLbo58pZGi5xPtOCYRf75WRpqRE_JzdOhKJYga8jGqYciNeWAsVQV_zsWPGmNfDzyr6Hp6_6_Ms6r5hxhS5dvI_irpjsFvRsNIeityYielNFWgTT82vClqwdcin8LtFoXUnj38mgoh2_GbCAbf_Q4rn40/s5472/P1060219.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU7aMjVI5w7UGT7w6shnU2-VNHwlBjUezTikStLbo58pZGi5xPtOCYRf75WRpqRE_JzdOhKJYga8jGqYciNeWAsVQV_zsWPGmNfDzyr6Hp6_6_Ms6r5hxhS5dvI_irpjsFvRsNIeityYielNFWgTT82vClqwdcin8LtFoXUnj38mgoh2_GbCAbf_Q4rn40/w640-h426/P1060219.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Both the crib version (in the pattern) and the laprobe size I'm making use 4 half-blocks. Each half-block uses 3 pairs of blades, 4 kite points and 3 background diamonds.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Cutting these pieces from jelly roll (2 1/2" ) strips isn't a problem but I had to fiddle around a bit with the layer cake leftovers to get my 3 pair of blades. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Thank goodness for my rotating rotary mat!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszsf1O9ufQKkrb9hZERJPL_8sca2Lp8U7jkS9Lp_Mqa1G224TkJIo7G10eSTmf4WZFRH4prO0mxrvUhUZPtyWY_NlvdUKVpp7UdhuWvQlVRBKDXOO2iIZBD1IqjOVWlgEYWijrcoXIKKrswbM5tNsMtGT_KyLwHef3rOuraNIq2lZDs8rwxZiwfomkTW6/s5472/P1060214%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2614" data-original-width="5472" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgszsf1O9ufQKkrb9hZERJPL_8sca2Lp8U7jkS9Lp_Mqa1G224TkJIo7G10eSTmf4WZFRH4prO0mxrvUhUZPtyWY_NlvdUKVpp7UdhuWvQlVRBKDXOO2iIZBD1IqjOVWlgEYWijrcoXIKKrswbM5tNsMtGT_KyLwHef3rOuraNIq2lZDs8rwxZiwfomkTW6/w640-h306/P1060214%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div> I actually found it easier to cut the blades out with the template I made for the last tutorial!?!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrMbjGu0YaxUBqpk3jONBiTkxQLDa01uDEQ9KY098QufO8ffn_C-zOfBhd3W03jBdQkncfar-lsP1BGzkv8sxya5niyNLzwTR8cawBfHL6YxJNCy88xIhIFqLEDMaoKN-NV5pyRCse6TNrdSihi1vgd6Py8nZ4CtoiYO4ochuk7sQNxGv4XoqkG_uKRZ3/s4755/P1060215%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3119" data-original-width="4755" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidrMbjGu0YaxUBqpk3jONBiTkxQLDa01uDEQ9KY098QufO8ffn_C-zOfBhd3W03jBdQkncfar-lsP1BGzkv8sxya5niyNLzwTR8cawBfHL6YxJNCy88xIhIFqLEDMaoKN-NV5pyRCse6TNrdSihi1vgd6Py8nZ4CtoiYO4ochuk7sQNxGv4XoqkG_uKRZ3/w640-h421/P1060215%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">In the photo below, I've assembled two of the blade units with a kite point. The remaining two blades are separated and positioned as shown.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3UzhNLGjoPUaZdJs0NjbOPjSRsZQR3dzWraeTSaeArE8PVUuOMGGl2WTBbPwG0ndd7WZVqXFgPFOmOoUpoc79qEVoCIK6294a-wAAHiolwI7LT-nXV-gHm-zuNiExE7LsvBV1bTySB365tEPOK7-N32XyjGBNQR6Apks2__CyB8itcNBEGgUb14oHS3z/s4414/P1060220%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4414" data-original-width="3127" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig3UzhNLGjoPUaZdJs0NjbOPjSRsZQR3dzWraeTSaeArE8PVUuOMGGl2WTBbPwG0ndd7WZVqXFgPFOmOoUpoc79qEVoCIK6294a-wAAHiolwI7LT-nXV-gHm-zuNiExE7LsvBV1bTySB365tEPOK7-N32XyjGBNQR6Apks2__CyB8itcNBEGgUb14oHS3z/w454-h640/P1060220%20(2).JPG" width="454" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">This photo illustrates the order of assembly.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyvRphDOP55vxTEn0ZoQS43q20UxQd7lT4YCwXCLG_fi30y7O75FITsUAtIRvtpxJhrXfK01xxivqHPY3KdDUvY5gqu1TROsDaPL7Od9MDwiV_rkYl-6cM07joARN6inXeZt2N4m9Gjm3YsJRbgjDg2meZTFIMlvWYBejXSnEN2uModujIcPmXU4F4NO8/s4707/P1060221%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4707" data-original-width="3267" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwyvRphDOP55vxTEn0ZoQS43q20UxQd7lT4YCwXCLG_fi30y7O75FITsUAtIRvtpxJhrXfK01xxivqHPY3KdDUvY5gqu1TROsDaPL7Od9MDwiV_rkYl-6cM07joARN6inXeZt2N4m9Gjm3YsJRbgjDg2meZTFIMlvWYBejXSnEN2uModujIcPmXU4F4NO8/w445-h640/P1060221%20(2).JPG" width="445" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">If you look back up at the first picture, you'll see this half-star on my design wall.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Now let's look at cutting the setting triangles. Of course, as a retired Marti Michell educator, I'm using one of the 60 degree triangle rulers. There are two and I have both, but if I were buying them today, I'd get the large one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIN4CJTwc9O3eqfjjLp-UEjYz4bOMNW-FYTfc10gC5gYf0rklWCPuHzHX_2MG8bgkufESOJs-GayWhsWUMqaVt24D1ytFsUdG5Vii-ZNappXs70Ng-E3zu3qOLy5h4MpZ07O7nXKank7FIazI3Fns64td9AxV8JgKTCmsp3fjBGc1G9wJPeuQD6E1J2vZg/s5472/P1060228.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIN4CJTwc9O3eqfjjLp-UEjYz4bOMNW-FYTfc10gC5gYf0rklWCPuHzHX_2MG8bgkufESOJs-GayWhsWUMqaVt24D1ytFsUdG5Vii-ZNappXs70Ng-E3zu3qOLy5h4MpZ07O7nXKank7FIazI3Fns64td9AxV8JgKTCmsp3fjBGc1G9wJPeuQD6E1J2vZg/w640-h426/P1060228.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">If you don't have one of these rulers or a different brand, I'll go over cutting the triangles without one of them.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">For the crib size setting, you need 16 full triangles and 4 half triangles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">For the lap robe size, I need 24 full triangles and 12 half triangles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Before starting my blocks, I set aside all the light background prints from my layer cake to use for my setting triangles. If you are working with a jelly roll, you'll need a 1/2 yard of a print with a light background that blends/coordinates with your fabric assortment for the setting triangles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Layer two squares right sides together on the cutting mat and trim to a 9 3/4" square -- this is mostly to eliminate those pinked edges. The reason for layering the squares right sides together is to get right and left half triangles without having to think about it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">No need to experiment with that idea -- just do it.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">(I already messed it up by not doing it.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAT-4o7I5hWywB__XyBRUYHLnjeLLbDslHBsyiNdjKcgdj3dWR9U32Txu6Bz4ETuDjOuzfk6ZSKzBNfD9fUQh1-BcU_ll-BVrihfe7uaep1lEQ_8LyAzlWbUIwBK-ufxxsE9Q83ZPPoDoD0279SdZ40r_aTMGNWUn51oM7rPCf0yZx2SYzeMkaPS2hkwI/s5472/P1060229.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNAT-4o7I5hWywB__XyBRUYHLnjeLLbDslHBsyiNdjKcgdj3dWR9U32Txu6Bz4ETuDjOuzfk6ZSKzBNfD9fUQh1-BcU_ll-BVrihfe7uaep1lEQ_8LyAzlWbUIwBK-ufxxsE9Q83ZPPoDoD0279SdZ40r_aTMGNWUn51oM7rPCf0yZx2SYzeMkaPS2hkwI/w640-h426/P1060229.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Lay one edge of the small triangle or the 6" line of the large triangle along one edge of the squares and snugged up into a corner as below. Cut the triangles making sure to trim the points as directed with the ruler.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1q5BR9syf7Fpyd4O7Zf7pgvCb28HRW44d3EIa-c4ZUl8s_wBPhX34v4-uYy_w0dNnQAwonpF_b39kjyXQ5YcyNzVNaA1T0CbotlGmGHfa--PX8aBazXkIem1EzBwHHFgahbNtU-P3laHOnsOxI7folfoiawT_QvxWiXM62FemzYKpEm5HeMEqTnnI7jCD/s4350/P1060236%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4350" data-original-width="3467" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1q5BR9syf7Fpyd4O7Zf7pgvCb28HRW44d3EIa-c4ZUl8s_wBPhX34v4-uYy_w0dNnQAwonpF_b39kjyXQ5YcyNzVNaA1T0CbotlGmGHfa--PX8aBazXkIem1EzBwHHFgahbNtU-P3laHOnsOxI7folfoiawT_QvxWiXM62FemzYKpEm5HeMEqTnnI7jCD/w510-h640/P1060236%20(2).JPG" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">To cut the half triangles, twist the ruler around 180 degrees and align the purple lines down the center of tool as shown. ALL three lines need to be on the fabric because this creates the seam allowance needed on that edge of the piece.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KrXCVORvwqpeNom_BIuYBd-mZgqHTcUnhZJ2XkB5RqmNy6ImtuoA5OUaUJW8uk7rt3VvV9OylOjEvPwhAQJ7hUIcFbNDT59t80sFnoLZImZ2XCFAL-cUUt2PvQZVLp3C0_QRDX0G1MNXMZJM_g2b7wUd5uTsLOCdfq3UPOsYDaSkDjocIEZX_jkk_nyT/s5472/P1060232.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KrXCVORvwqpeNom_BIuYBd-mZgqHTcUnhZJ2XkB5RqmNy6ImtuoA5OUaUJW8uk7rt3VvV9OylOjEvPwhAQJ7hUIcFbNDT59t80sFnoLZImZ2XCFAL-cUUt2PvQZVLp3C0_QRDX0G1MNXMZJM_g2b7wUd5uTsLOCdfq3UPOsYDaSkDjocIEZX_jkk_nyT/w640-h426/P1060232.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">Here's one of my squares after cutting -- two full triangles, two half triangles, and three scraps -- upper left corner, center piece, and lower right corner. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRNbccXepMkVtJGzqrMmr7BWCCpYX4xHr9jcWSv9Y06OI0ML-0KKXzb7IwL7L35HoUImcWI3iaDoHIuTaMJc4LKdQY9rz7GTdLUHQjpi52wMom-9QVbUfdtgK9WEsEPL6GCeZjFHqTU3BIr52ZYwTN1sTeGKYeBm_Q0adIQg5YdGjLRV-qJdZwJNgX7_8/s3372/P1060234%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3372" data-original-width="3299" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsRNbccXepMkVtJGzqrMmr7BWCCpYX4xHr9jcWSv9Y06OI0ML-0KKXzb7IwL7L35HoUImcWI3iaDoHIuTaMJc4LKdQY9rz7GTdLUHQjpi52wMom-9QVbUfdtgK9WEsEPL6GCeZjFHqTU3BIr52ZYwTN1sTeGKYeBm_Q0adIQg5YdGjLRV-qJdZwJNgX7_8/w626-h640/P1060234%20(2).JPG" width="626" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">With careful cutting, I was able to get 20 full triangles and 20 half triangles.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">If you go back to the number of full triangles needed, you'll see that I'm 4 short for the laprobe. But happily my brain realized that since I only need 12 of the half triangles, I can stitch the extra 8 half triangles together to make 4 more full triangles and I'm golden!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkPU-QJqK-jEh05utb7yLFc4Dx4l3Wv7wdwDbyvFj7ovxyHwYdvGXgVGT8GbVaUWkBZvwQT8xAsYOjckRspLqpTJAOokePE43zB-6OU6Vxn6JzI4DpGVejJnIutdZcRphwKNyN1uCkHCRvnzhC3RU2maNhe_yC7ZVtsvF2VaL0R3gQxqhrDtnkGbV6RMw/s3731/P1060237%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="3731" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpkPU-QJqK-jEh05utb7yLFc4Dx4l3Wv7wdwDbyvFj7ovxyHwYdvGXgVGT8GbVaUWkBZvwQT8xAsYOjckRspLqpTJAOokePE43zB-6OU6Vxn6JzI4DpGVejJnIutdZcRphwKNyN1uCkHCRvnzhC3RU2maNhe_yC7ZVtsvF2VaL0R3gQxqhrDtnkGbV6RMw/w640-h626/P1060237%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">In the next tutorial, I will explain how to make these blend right into the setting and everyone will think I planned it that way?!?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;">To use a different brand of ruler or a basic rotary ruler, start by cutting 6" strips across the width of the fabric -- two for the crib size, three for the lap robe size -- from the yardage of your setting fabric. Layer two of the strips right sides together on your cutting mat (because you need left and right facing half-triangles) and square off the end.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2JZbg08aBzthxifvq8InoQxOJE1z_zijUaCbG2I7oCq1OOoVTTVVdpiUFhMapnD14a1gFMP_RJFsyQf_MXbAe-GUBmBvHyLjM8EIe4hTmmu4fN46Gv8R4xG1p5UL8OfB8z3ARBUMYbUAPtYtnmdC4Dc0ZshKGZ_yD-hn0n49CT420LFxaDxVDcTSZ6iA/s3679/P1060240%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3124" data-original-width="3679" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD2JZbg08aBzthxifvq8InoQxOJE1z_zijUaCbG2I7oCq1OOoVTTVVdpiUFhMapnD14a1gFMP_RJFsyQf_MXbAe-GUBmBvHyLjM8EIe4hTmmu4fN46Gv8R4xG1p5UL8OfB8z3ARBUMYbUAPtYtnmdC4Dc0ZshKGZ_yD-hn0n49CT420LFxaDxVDcTSZ6iA/w640-h544/P1060240%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Align the 60 degree line with the lower edge of the strip as below. This first cut will make two of the half triangles but DON'T align it with the lower left corner as I have in the picture below. My mistake meant I didn't have a seam allowance on that edge of the piece.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOoK9Fl6XLxfaauGG22Y71Y43rQ-v4q-d6wh_Qa2HPOU96_gdP2oEDP_VTFtadRo5BgHnoZ5gJkv7iXQsVvu-9jrZ3F15f-a_xD8i6aeWx37sToOPa47Ck71n5VsBRRhNhUxwnCiyFJBE59zuqSXmF1jrA-hTXeOmlQsNZuW1nZrEgFakjFMJ2VQ1PvdE/s4290/P1060241%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3341" data-original-width="4290" height="498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCOoK9Fl6XLxfaauGG22Y71Y43rQ-v4q-d6wh_Qa2HPOU96_gdP2oEDP_VTFtadRo5BgHnoZ5gJkv7iXQsVvu-9jrZ3F15f-a_xD8i6aeWx37sToOPa47Ck71n5VsBRRhNhUxwnCiyFJBE59zuqSXmF1jrA-hTXeOmlQsNZuW1nZrEgFakjFMJ2VQ1PvdE/w640-h498/P1060241%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Instead, make a mark 1/4" in from the corner and align the ruler with that mark -- seam allowance.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(I made the mistake so you don't have to!?!)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvmtdZvxUOmgsdBGeL5xyb2uftdZ6_2yAd2VYLC4USlBJfD2GVA87_RWd0Ctq40IzFcyriUsWKYiCkTTOGomD9B7C8wYHCW1ZlNeJh9px4SZU8iGbkWh4cPEFaFSO5lJfPqV2pVR2iuNbbXQCBLv-ttZZV1VLzWWzjiVNHj0XLPF_DmbG4c-PLJcKXgnc/s5472/P1060251.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrvmtdZvxUOmgsdBGeL5xyb2uftdZ6_2yAd2VYLC4USlBJfD2GVA87_RWd0Ctq40IzFcyriUsWKYiCkTTOGomD9B7C8wYHCW1ZlNeJh9px4SZU8iGbkWh4cPEFaFSO5lJfPqV2pVR2iuNbbXQCBLv-ttZZV1VLzWWzjiVNHj0XLPF_DmbG4c-PLJcKXgnc/w640-h426/P1060251.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This first cut will give you a pair of half triangles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then work your way across the strips rotating the ruler to line up along the 60 degree line on the lower edge of the strip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9s3PkglqlrZn__Ke_hRWmBPMOAt4dEaXlqqBvx18nxJVLbOv40P4spD6LWAsmes4WBQ15n7JL-AEg_atrEjSgqWsBxL1CY_9K3b7uDLxjaKTgBN6vBuTBCnj3AuA9CQFEKvG-6LLJGCbioWH0rpjzsdZcIS4g2fDVIQ8B5GfJarjdFik0Hvs3Cc5L5jH/s4026/P1060242%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3475" data-original-width="4026" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir9s3PkglqlrZn__Ke_hRWmBPMOAt4dEaXlqqBvx18nxJVLbOv40P4spD6LWAsmes4WBQ15n7JL-AEg_atrEjSgqWsBxL1CY_9K3b7uDLxjaKTgBN6vBuTBCnj3AuA9CQFEKvG-6LLJGCbioWH0rpjzsdZcIS4g2fDVIQ8B5GfJarjdFik0Hvs3Cc5L5jH/w640-h552/P1060242%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You should get at least 10 triangles from each strip.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhXLYso1ODU_-OoZG-_csGQIluf8_hPXn4wlGOTRpJ__yGOYTFsl9vtAPH3wNRbDtJs7i8AjBtdKTNsnFpyvcpYl9U8ITUB4g7hSxR3vqHT3ZmI_veL8E4EflMhg7Ttpebq5_-0rjfpUsCOiuaHrOvmd3N7E68CUZJ_HMyJxozZHfbVRhevr03lmMfhN-/s5122/P1060244%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3144" data-original-width="5122" height="392" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhXLYso1ODU_-OoZG-_csGQIluf8_hPXn4wlGOTRpJ__yGOYTFsl9vtAPH3wNRbDtJs7i8AjBtdKTNsnFpyvcpYl9U8ITUB4g7hSxR3vqHT3ZmI_veL8E4EflMhg7Ttpebq5_-0rjfpUsCOiuaHrOvmd3N7E68CUZJ_HMyJxozZHfbVRhevr03lmMfhN-/w640-h392/P1060244%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before you take the triangles off the rotary mat, twist a 6" wide ruler so the 5 3/4" line matches each side of the triangle. See that little corner peeking out at the upper right corner? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjnlGX87tFF7heuaLHUqYXeJWG8C98f_Rd5Z0FcFNmyN1UFldVnLVPTUIpDAAKhT8ma7BE7YRo4zJ0pZMAtk5-2quZoFMJZr8BqGg4RI2UeRYFIBke3rp7xhEwMnLd_Fnx3t6dsZxICM5uQahYmCQUXDY55K4nPeNjBxHfiz_nWeuFTRAy5drh-KJ32pV/s5472/P1060246.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQjnlGX87tFF7heuaLHUqYXeJWG8C98f_Rd5Z0FcFNmyN1UFldVnLVPTUIpDAAKhT8ma7BE7YRo4zJ0pZMAtk5-2quZoFMJZr8BqGg4RI2UeRYFIBke3rp7xhEwMnLd_Fnx3t6dsZxICM5uQahYmCQUXDY55K4nPeNjBxHfiz_nWeuFTRAy5drh-KJ32pV/w640-h426/P1060246.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Trim it off to mimic the trimmed corners of Marti's tool. If you've not worked with trimmed corners, it's a game changer increasing my matching accuracy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Do this for all three corners of the triangles.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKghLwkpN6UuFXAJ9b0lTsc-5bCXgPyBmQv-H8a4_EuNWVZFGHF_mnaSP5tvydjZSgmAe2yMSzhRSdDd696wXoJ6ihuDHklUJpSxL4q5qq_Vqa_ve6Lj0cJRuLMHfiOEKoTzXVUv23URDzFZmuMDd2NJ-U5Pko90M6bdd0NsdPOE727JNDZquE9xPDJa3/s2819/P1060255%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2612" data-original-width="2819" height="594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikKghLwkpN6UuFXAJ9b0lTsc-5bCXgPyBmQv-H8a4_EuNWVZFGHF_mnaSP5tvydjZSgmAe2yMSzhRSdDd696wXoJ6ihuDHklUJpSxL4q5qq_Vqa_ve6Lj0cJRuLMHfiOEKoTzXVUv23URDzFZmuMDd2NJ-U5Pko90M6bdd0NsdPOE727JNDZquE9xPDJa3/w640-h594/P1060255%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you near the opposite end of the strip, you can maximize fabric by cutting another set of half-triangles. To do this, line up the 1/4" line of your straight ruler (adding seam allowance) and cut.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnA891Y_Wlh8G4RWeAGg_mIOOh6RHxJAZOta3sJHtl8i2ShrG70mc7T3mOLK1gV2YYyFxMH7rUGKBxNLxacQRj30vZPaxTId0Gnm96tbmZUdEJGJkLdBaqerLyAOe15NegS1k8ULIgCOT7m48IUJEJmUk2zdolrGgXrDHucOj1bFNsR2n_ScMU-FmCF1W/s5472/P1060250.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnA891Y_Wlh8G4RWeAGg_mIOOh6RHxJAZOta3sJHtl8i2ShrG70mc7T3mOLK1gV2YYyFxMH7rUGKBxNLxacQRj30vZPaxTId0Gnm96tbmZUdEJGJkLdBaqerLyAOe15NegS1k8ULIgCOT7m48IUJEJmUk2zdolrGgXrDHucOj1bFNsR2n_ScMU-FmCF1W/w640-h426/P1060250.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have Marti's 60 degree Triangle Ruler, align the tool with the edge of the strip, cut the diagonal and trim the 3 corners.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhucxQ3LVp3mIOQPd3ybglTZ9g00s-XYmui9sYx1EtZbfXMnlMydw1_KK1r572tzvSwW-IcUykfaXQhDTKThAvLZW9huQDD9RYPimyVOxLTcVCNaylDR-uYn282sDcKksg0ogD7K5V6rh0UJhQT4Cp9lhAhMVd9D_bAoe74dSVP6cUMXVXrFUChEsOW8VGY/s5472/P1060253.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhucxQ3LVp3mIOQPd3ybglTZ9g00s-XYmui9sYx1EtZbfXMnlMydw1_KK1r572tzvSwW-IcUykfaXQhDTKThAvLZW9huQDD9RYPimyVOxLTcVCNaylDR-uYn282sDcKksg0ogD7K5V6rh0UJhQT4Cp9lhAhMVd9D_bAoe74dSVP6cUMXVXrFUChEsOW8VGY/w640-h426/P1060253.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For other brands of 60 (equilateral) triangles, the horizontal lines may not match the fabric edge on a 6" strip, but <i><u>this is the correct strip size</u></i> -- so align the tool as straight as possible and don't worry about matching a line. You will also need to use the trick for trimming the triangle corners that I shared above.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> One of the unique aspects of Marti's tool is that the sizes noted along the outer edges of the tool are the <i><u>finished size of the triangles</u></i> making it easier for you to determine what size is needed for your blocks. In looking at other brands, their measurements seem to be based on the "height" of the tool and that is absolutely no help -- all it tells you is what size to cut the strip and not the size of the finished triangle. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a bonus idea I pondered when I realized I was running out of fabric for the triangles. Cut four scrappy 3" sixty-degree triangles and stitch them together for a 6" triangle.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just an idea to keep in your back pocket?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And it would be a good solution for a scrappy version!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgy-geDrw_nhrwZBrMCNmcNCBw7roD21IZki6nErBkg8ZsV6E680XWHHQmHoyQJ6d_FZ0FjG8TJNbRVzZKN2KEyzGRUDTARJ7Wswxo7gd2HQ_m5Trv4FBhGBqHir-dNZnz-5eImYKq-W0w0NEhtT4fcWBClxaHdRw020cd5Vgv3rZWg4sknUrazn8xAun/s4858/P1060257%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3352" data-original-width="4858" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDgy-geDrw_nhrwZBrMCNmcNCBw7roD21IZki6nErBkg8ZsV6E680XWHHQmHoyQJ6d_FZ0FjG8TJNbRVzZKN2KEyzGRUDTARJ7Wswxo7gd2HQ_m5Trv4FBhGBqHir-dNZnz-5eImYKq-W0w0NEhtT4fcWBClxaHdRw020cd5Vgv3rZWg4sknUrazn8xAun/w640-h442/P1060257%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">I've reviewed this tutorial several times and hope I've anticipated everything you need to know about cutting the setting triangles, but if not -- ask away!!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">THIS WEEK'S ACTION STEPS:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Finish piecing your blocks and make four half-blocks.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Cut the setting triangles as described above.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Clear off your design wall so you will be ready to play next week -- tutorial 5 will come out Wednesday, July 26.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. And of course, leave your questions in the comments. I bet someone else has the same question and will be relieved they aren't the only one asking it!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just for fun, if you are on Instagram, remember to post your blocks as you finish them -- use the hashtag, #dresdenstarquilt and tag me @hueymary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. Did you notice I've added six blocks to the UFO?!? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Progress!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-85713792252922899032023-07-05T02:48:00.001-07:002023-07-17T16:35:49.674-07:00Part 3 -- Dresden Stars Tutorials<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you ready to give this block a try? Today's tutorial is long but full of pictures which I hope will make it easy to follow. Read all the way through it first, then sew through it slowly. If you don't "get it", just do it and it will make sense as you finish the first block. If you didn't pull out a UFO for "leaders/enders" (I know you have at least one), do that before you start to sew. Not only will it make the rhythm of the process smoother, it will be a win-win because you will finally make a bit of progress on that UFO!?!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 1 is to sew the six pairs of blades together -- start at the narrow end, 1/4" seams.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMK7rRNQGZJTouJPTG1-Znuz3DNO6uDycZqJYUR1LXJv0nrRMxWktS_rqbba1bE9u0kTPzkEVn8cHEzsYbLiWeXsGvHMljluphkhsdr30le0iKc2lb1D5cBsxETEu6HHeiQwtEHBhisyIpI7Hsq35t8ulIdTjTQ3-5SLGNtHUEX3ZnGEd8aw29dDpoHjk/s3526/P1060123%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3165" data-original-width="3526" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMK7rRNQGZJTouJPTG1-Znuz3DNO6uDycZqJYUR1LXJv0nrRMxWktS_rqbba1bE9u0kTPzkEVn8cHEzsYbLiWeXsGvHMljluphkhsdr30le0iKc2lb1D5cBsxETEu6HHeiQwtEHBhisyIpI7Hsq35t8ulIdTjTQ3-5SLGNtHUEX3ZnGEd8aw29dDpoHjk/w400-h359/P1060123%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stitch up to or just short of the dot -- it's okay to stop less than a stitch from the dot!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzd45rATLcOYSYj8stBi4Z1fv9ocmrwexNSrg7pIrJDIBIeNMLFhEy1vmfFwq31oUKYRPlXP8pWpuMVa0c9fufuocbg7R_rZGlPO1iD3p3UBNqc-b9h7my0Pnvoz_p1VSjjGmmpPY6eaxO7gWAJf1h9x6oEt8ipueudpWLBWU0Punn0xabDrgLa7apeci/s5472/P1060125.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVzd45rATLcOYSYj8stBi4Z1fv9ocmrwexNSrg7pIrJDIBIeNMLFhEy1vmfFwq31oUKYRPlXP8pWpuMVa0c9fufuocbg7R_rZGlPO1iD3p3UBNqc-b9h7my0Pnvoz_p1VSjjGmmpPY6eaxO7gWAJf1h9x6oEt8ipueudpWLBWU0Punn0xabDrgLa7apeci/w400-h266/P1060125.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I've learned "short of the dot" works as well as "on the dot" -- but don't stitch past the dot. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> If your 1/4" seam is accurate, your needle will be aimed directly at the dot.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwH4pDOQPP1m2pIiFD-1n3RsgfiRUyigLonL2O9azyfH92be64N1LH1gr4_coNC4pSQ8MsdBJ27yJSOvTT-U9qO_XbvW8nubHoxWdB7T69zy-TptP2K9Omq6H2ddJIbvpYp9n1wY1KPWAuSQZdUBgARZO_B93siWrD4rsMElN8MgR6stdhhNmbR68CAqzb/s5472/P1060126.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwH4pDOQPP1m2pIiFD-1n3RsgfiRUyigLonL2O9azyfH92be64N1LH1gr4_coNC4pSQ8MsdBJ27yJSOvTT-U9qO_XbvW8nubHoxWdB7T69zy-TptP2K9Omq6H2ddJIbvpYp9n1wY1KPWAuSQZdUBgARZO_B93siWrD4rsMElN8MgR6stdhhNmbR68CAqzb/w400-h266/P1060126.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now for the "trick" that makes it possible to chain-piece while stitching set-in seams!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With the needle down, lift the presser foot and pivot the fabric clockwise until the left edge of the presser foot aligns with the edge of the patchwork.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTTyo4TSejNHFoQaSxGfpncavEK8rSHqF3-Xjs9KJapG8jua1Qo6tE_sZcXFp5ejNZClEQN96AYHXwZmvpQiCdeuq4moKeI3a5RjOjl6v36JxETwLLZS70am2ipUJLd_4CXReQplO_IxFjyA7tWd1dvM_vD4CtpTmB5p3QJnrGXn2GrAgYS4kGXPW0a2R/s5472/P1060127.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTTTyo4TSejNHFoQaSxGfpncavEK8rSHqF3-Xjs9KJapG8jua1Qo6tE_sZcXFp5ejNZClEQN96AYHXwZmvpQiCdeuq4moKeI3a5RjOjl6v36JxETwLLZS70am2ipUJLd_4CXReQplO_IxFjyA7tWd1dvM_vD4CtpTmB5p3QJnrGXn2GrAgYS4kGXPW0a2R/w400-h266/P1060127.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next, stitch onto the second pair of blades and repeat the process until you have all six pairs stitched together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYR_M6UluO1Un7CeFlhUEsv0IkMC-ddqZgduKUuRVhq7r0FXEOKyJ5H-VNo6iBmZ6Qe3colqsRfTsYL9BvDUG1BHRfoGst82vVqxyw9MoZR1-JG0xxswSNTd-F_cGlEDJvyaKFd43-I7Z_DiBYQVKKlTucKAJFAHNg27E6fYnWRCnJ9dQG3JGBEnb_WANe/s5472/P1060128.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYR_M6UluO1Un7CeFlhUEsv0IkMC-ddqZgduKUuRVhq7r0FXEOKyJ5H-VNo6iBmZ6Qe3colqsRfTsYL9BvDUG1BHRfoGst82vVqxyw9MoZR1-JG0xxswSNTd-F_cGlEDJvyaKFd43-I7Z_DiBYQVKKlTucKAJFAHNg27E6fYnWRCnJ9dQG3JGBEnb_WANe/w400-h266/P1060128.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I leave every blade attached to the chain as you see here.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYR_M6UluO1Un7CeFlhUEsv0IkMC-ddqZgduKUuRVhq7r0FXEOKyJ5H-VNo6iBmZ6Qe3colqsRfTsYL9BvDUG1BHRfoGst82vVqxyw9MoZR1-JG0xxswSNTd-F_cGlEDJvyaKFd43-I7Z_DiBYQVKKlTucKAJFAHNg27E6fYnWRCnJ9dQG3JGBEnb_WANe/s5472/P1060128.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaTE9AJ1U7lnjadj2rW_AxIq_vKFjnP4kTK96jrhhBNlzhinBHvxFhctc27K3s1dIxWqPMhAgdWtE25VVgZRO_3o6Vi2QtvP2X4a1yOTmwqbqPuLFQg_DqQElIaT125qwpvH2QMFllJumJ_GcVO3_Osc9ActQ7PxVMYqBWPabumo1mDdub4OHCBMdjFV7R/s5472/P1060129.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaTE9AJ1U7lnjadj2rW_AxIq_vKFjnP4kTK96jrhhBNlzhinBHvxFhctc27K3s1dIxWqPMhAgdWtE25VVgZRO_3o6Vi2QtvP2X4a1yOTmwqbqPuLFQg_DqQElIaT125qwpvH2QMFllJumJ_GcVO3_Osc9ActQ7PxVMYqBWPabumo1mDdub4OHCBMdjFV7R/w400-h266/P1060129.JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clip off the first five pairs and leave the last pair under your needle. Don't press anything yet -- it's not helpful!! Grab the six kite points.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XSytU_miVX0APYgzaNU_qzTKlGNmCUa8kiuItDgdL8hnbvIphHBZOzAFA1zgi5YIz77gDb7e_fa_OfQdK380WgGSELW66UXdvucwB0WkjwLczxAyRHvxcJLje4-BQRMBxQsNv3mVLrY-sj-DmIXO0CKYrz8rSG3U3laOn-ny11ECDQthNE-_H6Z8R4Un/s5472/P1060130.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_XSytU_miVX0APYgzaNU_qzTKlGNmCUa8kiuItDgdL8hnbvIphHBZOzAFA1zgi5YIz77gDb7e_fa_OfQdK380WgGSELW66UXdvucwB0WkjwLczxAyRHvxcJLje4-BQRMBxQsNv3mVLrY-sj-DmIXO0CKYrz8rSG3U3laOn-ny11ECDQthNE-_H6Z8R4Un/w400-h266/P1060130.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Open up a blade pair and position the kite point as below.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3e87IqVmUUzfFBPAkeP6JUTxIrnewUNRbbHDb_oKpGcbCjvTTnmoW-7sfwgLbNHtG-ig5cIIOxZtoVSve66pRJN6QIVfTY1iaG0rta3Tah2_x-EipMfqqZIK_3BLYQid201iNEbIpIzYu51wqwNRNLc5swVK-Ppdb430Wn8SYDXYZaNjyb4yd83l3zp9V/s5472/P1060131.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3e87IqVmUUzfFBPAkeP6JUTxIrnewUNRbbHDb_oKpGcbCjvTTnmoW-7sfwgLbNHtG-ig5cIIOxZtoVSve66pRJN6QIVfTY1iaG0rta3Tah2_x-EipMfqqZIK_3BLYQid201iNEbIpIzYu51wqwNRNLc5swVK-Ppdb430Wn8SYDXYZaNjyb4yd83l3zp9V/w400-h266/P1060131.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Flip the kite point right side down onto the left blade being sure to match the corners of the pieces.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpkR7P-c-jgQAM5Mhz-bfAjePeo3qiujd3vIHBK3YUx-eZqVKeaehAYzcdSbfCgzsl-2iiWsAeP5Bme4-E8bUOXsxKK-CwKkKgdoIX7uS5yXmjuF5hW50QNEMYAoar7Vw6c9cOiLIJ-xw736WNKoVW60A7Iy00qG6cN5SyvD0iFA61eQQ0TXwO8ExIj82/s5472/P1060132.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZpkR7P-c-jgQAM5Mhz-bfAjePeo3qiujd3vIHBK3YUx-eZqVKeaehAYzcdSbfCgzsl-2iiWsAeP5Bme4-E8bUOXsxKK-CwKkKgdoIX7uS5yXmjuF5hW50QNEMYAoar7Vw6c9cOiLIJ-xw736WNKoVW60A7Iy00qG6cN5SyvD0iFA61eQQ0TXwO8ExIj82/w400-h266/P1060132.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Stitch off the last blade pair that is still under the machine needle and onto the first kite.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7N5Vi8sEts_lyUDKgabHIQemhKP5HikYtLb-myKMIHqNZTtMjx2C66FP8h9X6tCaAakxfiQ7Srt3q9QtuQIQfPBUb_gMgAhrC4bLE6sfUfWdJ-ya872jt1rs1M084yzHtXedVTUUe0Wxd6zHqlpl80puUd0h7Q35w-70sw3FFt2Ve_HKIbMWzv5E3Xt6J/s5472/P1060133.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7N5Vi8sEts_lyUDKgabHIQemhKP5HikYtLb-myKMIHqNZTtMjx2C66FP8h9X6tCaAakxfiQ7Srt3q9QtuQIQfPBUb_gMgAhrC4bLE6sfUfWdJ-ya872jt1rs1M084yzHtXedVTUUe0Wxd6zHqlpl80puUd0h7Q35w-70sw3FFt2Ve_HKIbMWzv5E3Xt6J/w400-h266/P1060133.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stop at or just before the dot and pivot clockwise as before. Now you can clip off the last blade pair and continue to add kite points to all six blade pairs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cwnJataCAVCcoSU3Gjwg5mAfBchqWTnaWpE0DFSbDsdnexc6P9g_yQadnuaY-Yk68v10uGELR_shNU3tqjAMkOnz6z6M4t1w4TutXAxJbrgLvdDNtvG09wNqWMbf05jbUBOId1_Os8DLWfI7wYVXAnyftBmca1K7nMvH_SniIun5NwidbJCF1BQMSWkx/s5472/P1060134.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9cwnJataCAVCcoSU3Gjwg5mAfBchqWTnaWpE0DFSbDsdnexc6P9g_yQadnuaY-Yk68v10uGELR_shNU3tqjAMkOnz6z6M4t1w4TutXAxJbrgLvdDNtvG09wNqWMbf05jbUBOId1_Os8DLWfI7wYVXAnyftBmca1K7nMvH_SniIun5NwidbJCF1BQMSWkx/w400-h266/P1060134.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once you have the kites attached to one side of all the blade pairs,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cut off five of the blade units, align the second side of the kite to the other side of the blade unit and continue on -- chain-piecing all the way until all six blade units are finished.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsBkWKiOlrd5JcjauLGPHudCx8GYSP1WLGwjMZ-GfU4LiViIstAbpUgaLACO9TwR1I3VOHYOhHZRFBvSsUuFnnKIlB9UCAmQBKW6Dt5dK4S4687F59M4U_P4gbqOBUz3vSO5dSKF6nd_5yb0jUdNalGmU8QBHJlrDAAxF0pAQhJQ53zjQVU2t5T7WeQxe/s5472/P1060136.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLsBkWKiOlrd5JcjauLGPHudCx8GYSP1WLGwjMZ-GfU4LiViIstAbpUgaLACO9TwR1I3VOHYOhHZRFBvSsUuFnnKIlB9UCAmQBKW6Dt5dK4S4687F59M4U_P4gbqOBUz3vSO5dSKF6nd_5yb0jUdNalGmU8QBHJlrDAAxF0pAQhJQ53zjQVU2t5T7WeQxe/w400-h266/P1060136.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is where I grab something from my UFO "leaders/enders" stack -- once I've sewn onto this little strip set, I can clip off all the blade units and head to the ironing station!</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2j2-Se0qP7G0Crj10TfGtc6LsenRySuM0jxnw9wf7j8MeU-ToxQfAludMcdlFRvw9paGx4PbZB0UtU3p-u59MV8lwp8Ele1HtMQ706L_1zGJJ01IxHiJfz4i-CWJt4RiEcRDf8IEflvRqKe7PzvJ53VwRVf-h28HijUPy6kBHZnYnd5XnAPIgqpN_PU5/s5472/P1060139.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz2j2-Se0qP7G0Crj10TfGtc6LsenRySuM0jxnw9wf7j8MeU-ToxQfAludMcdlFRvw9paGx4PbZB0UtU3p-u59MV8lwp8Ele1HtMQ706L_1zGJJ01IxHiJfz4i-CWJt4RiEcRDf8IEflvRqKe7PzvJ53VwRVf-h28HijUPy6kBHZnYnd5XnAPIgqpN_PU5/w400-h266/P1060139.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press the seams of the blade units with the long seam going towards the darker fabric and the end seams going towards the kites. Do not press the seams open!! Not only is this unnecessarily time consuming (in my opinion) but it weakens the patchwork.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNIPFS1BUiVBT5AZ81CqBPwjslO8g9eo6cOepwow0bzSaPmrhmRnbddspg1lSSKIJPz9zzEWjamIUUeMnT91TwcFfa2lvnaHcB0-Yw8xwe50XW1ICB2Q5oSoBbb1JbeCzNhMLxrOgZg6IeS1aoNuxrcmOwnafyq_Os0zWuU5g04OrgclyKoM38BgfDTk7/s3853/P1060140%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="3853" height="379" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhNIPFS1BUiVBT5AZ81CqBPwjslO8g9eo6cOepwow0bzSaPmrhmRnbddspg1lSSKIJPz9zzEWjamIUUeMnT91TwcFfa2lvnaHcB0-Yw8xwe50XW1ICB2Q5oSoBbb1JbeCzNhMLxrOgZg6IeS1aoNuxrcmOwnafyq_Os0zWuU5g04OrgclyKoM38BgfDTk7/w400-h379/P1060140%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time for the second sewing round! Make three pairs of blade units -- match the seams as shown below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSMOcKwHm7odetTBi-hzBN09a9fEn9hNHqMWbksSF0am5GkJF5dfz_OB6edF6itlBmgGJiJzmSSLbupGGMGud6iFJqIa_WEvnQl3DqLRcFwjs_-lI_C55J0LQU3aGYWb7Sz8z3jEwqLpqPUqmBal5QQ6UgHvrdjJVaU0AOAPqnBrUVKzUAEr6xebuM6bH/s5472/P1060154.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisSMOcKwHm7odetTBi-hzBN09a9fEn9hNHqMWbksSF0am5GkJF5dfz_OB6edF6itlBmgGJiJzmSSLbupGGMGud6iFJqIa_WEvnQl3DqLRcFwjs_-lI_C55J0LQU3aGYWb7Sz8z3jEwqLpqPUqmBal5QQ6UgHvrdjJVaU0AOAPqnBrUVKzUAEr6xebuM6bH/w400-h266/P1060154.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since I'm going to applique a 1" hexagon at the center of the star when I'm finished with the piecing, I trim 1/2" off the tips before stitching them together to reduce bulk.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocxWgT7QCFzITJPsXZVVkIFVgs6YKjLMtEbe6u5bbZxTln8W7T2u18j05OrvuUrLxdn1djWSQ55YnTfiBdEadXnah5F8CLERB2QBh_nFo7LV7icxiwxlN85fkBnzeLw2cBYVE8TZZrphaEB68MtZw2ziw6_OD2FQN_mXUnhMerx5JHg0vi0AhmzIXy6O3/s5472/P1060153.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjocxWgT7QCFzITJPsXZVVkIFVgs6YKjLMtEbe6u5bbZxTln8W7T2u18j05OrvuUrLxdn1djWSQ55YnTfiBdEadXnah5F8CLERB2QBh_nFo7LV7icxiwxlN85fkBnzeLw2cBYVE8TZZrphaEB68MtZw2ziw6_OD2FQN_mXUnhMerx5JHg0vi0AhmzIXy6O3/w400-h266/P1060153.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here we go! Sewing off the little strip set from my UFO onto the blade joining seam.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFhhNr0jhNyGst1IiretsY15ulKjks5lWwP62OIk-fCr-02tUnWeunHgBYdfn_6R2GhcPBLTW4zlchrQfsaKwqY039xV1j-dxADC-ZSPRpj39LVMtGHVm6OVptGFuXFmunUzXsx2VNUfFHuE-BZu2q83NwozFt5P7tbyPhcFRy_bfiQ6wC8xrTZL7J901/s5472/P1060156.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXFhhNr0jhNyGst1IiretsY15ulKjks5lWwP62OIk-fCr-02tUnWeunHgBYdfn_6R2GhcPBLTW4zlchrQfsaKwqY039xV1j-dxADC-ZSPRpj39LVMtGHVm6OVptGFuXFmunUzXsx2VNUfFHuE-BZu2q83NwozFt5P7tbyPhcFRy_bfiQ6wC8xrTZL7J901/w400-h266/P1060156.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All the way to the dot (or just short of it -- less than a stitch), pivot clockwise.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjX6z2ytaKhovqK2Q_3ZYDOR3gEP4JL0nh64nzTZjy9LoYkdEe9TpO5_AAWvuJcwAoGi4mRJtEhiQ0sL2SqRwdOlUp700UDiFysqwcqJFsGErncY3yet0cJd9RMzy9RAPjzQHy7t0jlvHFxbHyC2R_hK7hym867Jb0a3Q8Aiw4Kac9M0NB8mKg1XltZsN_/s5472/P1060157.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjX6z2ytaKhovqK2Q_3ZYDOR3gEP4JL0nh64nzTZjy9LoYkdEe9TpO5_AAWvuJcwAoGi4mRJtEhiQ0sL2SqRwdOlUp700UDiFysqwcqJFsGErncY3yet0cJd9RMzy9RAPjzQHy7t0jlvHFxbHyC2R_hK7hym867Jb0a3Q8Aiw4Kac9M0NB8mKg1XltZsN_/w400-h266/P1060157.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before pressing, let's add a background diamond to each unit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8f2X79efOVLtlbKxcDu9VHpRolXCTa-jnkFNaFMJ-wW8sS-qr7_tz5dWN0I9k6gz4TCTRs6sknAEZQBXmpYNvpF2wfzYj0sZZjpjOBard0dfpsKTWtG7kYhbAFnr6kbgTixQhJPbq57ZFS-9nuklQZR0xGrapxPybMgbPVZ7kkEKLqjwNclPMOItb0Tx/s5472/P1060161.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8f2X79efOVLtlbKxcDu9VHpRolXCTa-jnkFNaFMJ-wW8sS-qr7_tz5dWN0I9k6gz4TCTRs6sknAEZQBXmpYNvpF2wfzYj0sZZjpjOBard0dfpsKTWtG7kYhbAFnr6kbgTixQhJPbq57ZFS-9nuklQZR0xGrapxPybMgbPVZ7kkEKLqjwNclPMOItb0Tx/w400-h266/P1060161.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More of the same -- align the background diamond right side down on the left side of the blade unit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4N6E3ZXco55YkHVwnYjcbFkmnZKqMfj9-SiPZltkwJsBz-7Xm1hFiNH7XJM3As1ubVvD54lkPcQOmwac_xtJ8j6uSOeUNZUE6AILwdNf2zBDj5PncZMA-H30Hp5iawmam4j6pwvOUnnaycaJzwcY9ProOP9Y--0tmHh-rrZ58zB0bDHR2-IcB7fL8u3W/s5472/P1060162.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW4N6E3ZXco55YkHVwnYjcbFkmnZKqMfj9-SiPZltkwJsBz-7Xm1hFiNH7XJM3As1ubVvD54lkPcQOmwac_xtJ8j6uSOeUNZUE6AILwdNf2zBDj5PncZMA-H30Hp5iawmam4j6pwvOUnnaycaJzwcY9ProOP9Y--0tmHh-rrZ58zB0bDHR2-IcB7fL8u3W/w400-h266/P1060162.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Stitch to the dot and pivot clockwise.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BRJn9Ij8_A1TNAOEvaBODGDM47N3REQlB-LSEMaKcDwaKPFKZP3zUXD98NTJNe71YwStw2-h7V9qlOR42J4s9y1RO8mM_hJiyvFUHLaHbT1ZC_DDH8Ejpu3TsdCeoY0-rGkmoDPVNpjepXp5phHgrnrXjOTjQ3sznqxw9ifSWdsYsrbqU-OILrSDFE0H/s5472/P1060165.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1BRJn9Ij8_A1TNAOEvaBODGDM47N3REQlB-LSEMaKcDwaKPFKZP3zUXD98NTJNe71YwStw2-h7V9qlOR42J4s9y1RO8mM_hJiyvFUHLaHbT1ZC_DDH8Ejpu3TsdCeoY0-rGkmoDPVNpjepXp5phHgrnrXjOTjQ3sznqxw9ifSWdsYsrbqU-OILrSDFE0H/w400-h266/P1060165.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keep chain-piecing! There is a rhythm to this process and it may feel awkward for the first few blocks you piece. Stay with it -- do one every day instead of trying to do all of the blocks in one long session. Practice makes the process smoother and your brain will find the rhythm better with a daily session.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hM0a999wNoOWCskVv3Clx5NIpivWRaBUob-Wd4cus8lMvBQoI0SRRZ7IzOEfUIyC3XybtrPIhfWQuutUMmlPCfVyvGmajVzovZdarafJv2QqWf6DZGct-qeBzxjdy_2aW_4GNYac7CS3jztQTvHuaj4Hv4XGg-_PrZozIHNnGOPHaUoU-cgYQ2GxJn28/s5472/P1060166.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-hM0a999wNoOWCskVv3Clx5NIpivWRaBUob-Wd4cus8lMvBQoI0SRRZ7IzOEfUIyC3XybtrPIhfWQuutUMmlPCfVyvGmajVzovZdarafJv2QqWf6DZGct-qeBzxjdy_2aW_4GNYac7CS3jztQTvHuaj4Hv4XGg-_PrZozIHNnGOPHaUoU-cgYQ2GxJn28/w400-h266/P1060166.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the background diamonds are attached to one side of the blades, flip it around and attach the second side. Still chain-piecing!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh_5GlFu8JilvMcy-6fBrnXWbVt6ulAtHw-WFYQswygex-Cu8WSJZsXnpOxP5LuKw34Y53Vtc9qmX_2F4vuJMtq70HM89VyhSHr30Bv7ubTceqJ4wxdxJ_VtfZ71fBgNChCMaD42WvAf-9fahCuYGBJVo4ZOK7JgjB-Rz-8bLLgmEo_dTp7F8ETxzIbC3/s5472/P1060167.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVh_5GlFu8JilvMcy-6fBrnXWbVt6ulAtHw-WFYQswygex-Cu8WSJZsXnpOxP5LuKw34Y53Vtc9qmX_2F4vuJMtq70HM89VyhSHr30Bv7ubTceqJ4wxdxJ_VtfZ71fBgNChCMaD42WvAf-9fahCuYGBJVo4ZOK7JgjB-Rz-8bLLgmEo_dTp7F8ETxzIbC3/w400-h266/P1060167.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All three units are finished and it's time to sew onto another UFO unit.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJbELyAMEFcyjbbznS4u1-pb7VS8Tu5kQ63yl5iIBacRl9uuE1F18HTXMr4nM3h4DpcNFxfWG7My8O9h9L883Y_U3mmYacS23oIrsQZ44Gqnn9a8zUggTjyuYqdM0eKvLS0qcFLfhMiFoQX7fiUpqQU3xspkLP9J_UskDN_cg0GNN7UqFSHmJvd_nnjQu/s5472/P1060168.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTJbELyAMEFcyjbbznS4u1-pb7VS8Tu5kQ63yl5iIBacRl9uuE1F18HTXMr4nM3h4DpcNFxfWG7My8O9h9L883Y_U3mmYacS23oIrsQZ44Gqnn9a8zUggTjyuYqdM0eKvLS0qcFLfhMiFoQX7fiUpqQU3xspkLP9J_UskDN_cg0GNN7UqFSHmJvd_nnjQu/w400-h266/P1060168.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before I press the blade units, take a look at this close-up of where the seams "meet" -- in other set-in piecing techniques, the "gap" you see between the ends of the seams would be a problem because it would be weak and leave a hole. But with the "set-in piecing simplified" technique, the "sew-off" stitches secure the end of each seam with no apparent hole on the right side.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj565zQq451P1NHbgZ0W8K5fBZuypxY9S2KElHOn0n4_IENZh07RrnWwIOmL8Zi1AIi4tG7SrUe7sq8on7jkSsTZfUQkGioclJ_v8PvzExvWhSYKz8MFTOPTxD9-qPSo03wVqMCwsk6rA26QWhepKjYTbPp2ccFjGF7ktIDP50I-5HUqfT3JJtxU1S6BfXz/s5472/P1060169.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj565zQq451P1NHbgZ0W8K5fBZuypxY9S2KElHOn0n4_IENZh07RrnWwIOmL8Zi1AIi4tG7SrUe7sq8on7jkSsTZfUQkGioclJ_v8PvzExvWhSYKz8MFTOPTxD9-qPSo03wVqMCwsk6rA26QWhepKjYTbPp2ccFjGF7ktIDP50I-5HUqfT3JJtxU1S6BfXz/w400-h266/P1060169.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Those "sew-off" stitches are the reason you can stop a bit short of the dot and there is no "back-stitching" which doesn't work well anyway.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Looks perfect!!</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeNfVIvGcP-v0_VVwxcUiXnCFwMEtZcIIsZDdl0HGgeHJLiH0ZK4BLkfJKwvR3BwZshu9Xau6enp9fumuhkMwGqulNrAafhqb8z-m_tVaxZa_QX4bGissQS132oJbTcn8fumtMEXqdcFubCzAFr6eAAvs88lxn0jfXARJ3dNBSdAtykGrpS4F-VmoujUXQ/s5472/P1060170.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeNfVIvGcP-v0_VVwxcUiXnCFwMEtZcIIsZDdl0HGgeHJLiH0ZK4BLkfJKwvR3BwZshu9Xau6enp9fumuhkMwGqulNrAafhqb8z-m_tVaxZa_QX4bGissQS132oJbTcn8fumtMEXqdcFubCzAFr6eAAvs88lxn0jfXARJ3dNBSdAtykGrpS4F-VmoujUXQ/w400-h266/P1060170.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press the seams between the blade units in the same direction as the first seams -- this way the seams will swirl around the finished star in one direction. Press the outer edges of the blade units towards the background diamonds -- this makes for crisp points when we start to set the blocks together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DXHylH1RV9sZAHaW1iSo8FPd57640H_i0fTo46H_fSZV7JgdZ5bTgckBFWcbeZGHV2pECjW_oqoFxe-c1pbBzQyJ-yT2tlD7Lfx7Vs1eA-E9VCg4KllaV8oQA2L7hohBYLdl8H-fRyGaeFMDV8PQqz-UlCj1ucAPptD24_8yzvbs3yLYcWa6jlS8ekWf/s5472/P1060171.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8DXHylH1RV9sZAHaW1iSo8FPd57640H_i0fTo46H_fSZV7JgdZ5bTgckBFWcbeZGHV2pECjW_oqoFxe-c1pbBzQyJ-yT2tlD7Lfx7Vs1eA-E9VCg4KllaV8oQA2L7hohBYLdl8H-fRyGaeFMDV8PQqz-UlCj1ucAPptD24_8yzvbs3yLYcWa6jlS8ekWf/w400-h266/P1060171.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All that is left to do is set the three blade units together and add in the last three background diamonds.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxhpSN4TGN7ID_Q3BJZWwr4MXs05BlOSmIe1UdLrMpoSVXulVQroq2afr2Rap8sVfRKakxpk3HTP-uFf4NvgEvoBeapg3MlGFKnsfuUvdjK_BdF4FfkDH3GV9A_QWBm9UthvHUbId3LrHFJVpf-yXa_TIaQD38yfiZW85v5yYLaIvjuByPKzG1ijAEYMN9/s5472/P1060172.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxhpSN4TGN7ID_Q3BJZWwr4MXs05BlOSmIe1UdLrMpoSVXulVQroq2afr2Rap8sVfRKakxpk3HTP-uFf4NvgEvoBeapg3MlGFKnsfuUvdjK_BdF4FfkDH3GV9A_QWBm9UthvHUbId3LrHFJVpf-yXa_TIaQD38yfiZW85v5yYLaIvjuByPKzG1ijAEYMN9/w400-h266/P1060172.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I stitch the three blade units together first, starting at the center of the star so I can pivot at the dots. I need nine "leader/ender" units at this point, so the short seams of these 3" 9-patch blocks were perfect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKq1Ke7-NHXYtvLyQHzb1-dqmesjeRQL7sCib2ornFOQR6P0KFxI-95oFu3dn9zGXnkwqyRK9oNddIeiQmtgX4TSjcUlVDFLw5b6h2c4tko1bYM4X14Zh_LQfQO7qOKgQ9MHjFwKENoRS3RiIz7z9_xSgkpw3DwpeZGqMS7wGa32ru6Pm06Lw5F6i8nFPl/s5472/P1060197.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKq1Ke7-NHXYtvLyQHzb1-dqmesjeRQL7sCib2ornFOQR6P0KFxI-95oFu3dn9zGXnkwqyRK9oNddIeiQmtgX4TSjcUlVDFLw5b6h2c4tko1bYM4X14Zh_LQfQO7qOKgQ9MHjFwKENoRS3RiIz7z9_xSgkpw3DwpeZGqMS7wGa32ru6Pm06Lw5F6i8nFPl/w400-h266/P1060197.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the three blades units are assembled, start setting in the background diamonds -- one block seam, one UFO seam, one block seam, one UFO seam, and so on.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBO25W3H61uWeIOP6c2duU3K6BYCeLC2lWz4mi1IvuUcNxMhFrEpMPNxVwakijAEon6R28P0osPafuLEjrV3qS_uRiKEUDgEHm6N36vfOCzDMbvFisOUB5nwGcdRGCpiPh-SMAvxLJInTLbZQC5Nm5H2iNTIoP1TiaTHlsTv6BDqzbMEHiij3fQvg1lYfN/s5472/P1060198.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBO25W3H61uWeIOP6c2duU3K6BYCeLC2lWz4mi1IvuUcNxMhFrEpMPNxVwakijAEon6R28P0osPafuLEjrV3qS_uRiKEUDgEHm6N36vfOCzDMbvFisOUB5nwGcdRGCpiPh-SMAvxLJInTLbZQC5Nm5H2iNTIoP1TiaTHlsTv6BDqzbMEHiij3fQvg1lYfN/w400-h266/P1060198.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ready to press and half the 9-patch blocks are done!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Press the remaining seams to match what is already pressed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8-8OclwGvqcbZWTJjxLwi3mYmwE1yRvo_8UVU4oePtBtKWAkLkXjMGFnyIf6DGUA5oJQV1gyWxI4L03KGobWP0lMvnZ-PDXHO1l56lgn76onZHq70X0thLNNIxCNPQYjM8SLlosFluZhT3EjNpM6CamOXSOvBxnGoeXaNDeXHpASw9Vl69LacvePy1Zo/s3760/P1060201%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2975" data-original-width="3760" height="316" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX8-8OclwGvqcbZWTJjxLwi3mYmwE1yRvo_8UVU4oePtBtKWAkLkXjMGFnyIf6DGUA5oJQV1gyWxI4L03KGobWP0lMvnZ-PDXHO1l56lgn76onZHq70X0thLNNIxCNPQYjM8SLlosFluZhT3EjNpM6CamOXSOvBxnGoeXaNDeXHpASw9Vl69LacvePy1Zo/w400-h316/P1060201%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The last step is to prepare an applique center -- I like using a 1" hexagon but the few pictures I've seen of vintage Dresden Stars use a circle. Your choice!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a circle, try a 1 1/2" finished diameter circle and see if you like that size -- you can always go smaller.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I prep the hexagon like English paper piecing, folding the seam allowances over a paper hexagon and pressing (or basting) them in place. If you don't have a friend who can give you a few 1" EPP hexagon papers, "google" it -- there are quite a few free printable sources for them.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirdN4R2N1Wo-BtZ8NeK2W6wUtXmn2fDwAcXWvGyLUVQFtHflbE-oY4Xj6guDJ3fmpc4KDxnmDUw4BqTDdhX6e2Gzc8N63KGyU7hpiaEQiDEDsuqjHZmBrHQzSdJRKdd4vkRsL_B_eTLavK3vDQM2pApszarC7F5RPmm1eXOA6AhV7TlHVTuPXtVcXz1zkB/s5472/P1060204.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirdN4R2N1Wo-BtZ8NeK2W6wUtXmn2fDwAcXWvGyLUVQFtHflbE-oY4Xj6guDJ3fmpc4KDxnmDUw4BqTDdhX6e2Gzc8N63KGyU7hpiaEQiDEDsuqjHZmBrHQzSdJRKdd4vkRsL_B_eTLavK3vDQM2pApszarC7F5RPmm1eXOA6AhV7TlHVTuPXtVcXz1zkB/w400-h266/P1060204.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Take out the paper, position the hexagon -- look how beautifully it lines up with the seams of the blades.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Hand or machine stitch in place.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcahJVJW4Y9za3ebsakBSkA0PjpWI6N2hMETbmhbssfqtZErSniz6PoB-BGDARnw1IKjHtkNoG2y2VlN5fx9sQLpq6S-ffv3i4E-io-OUhASBCizf15b8wCAu_E8aE9LBKoA_9MK0YH8KnBcRnLITtr1vIH_1c-l_QtLAbQdGFhs5HCn6745oLtti0seOJ/s5472/P1060206.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcahJVJW4Y9za3ebsakBSkA0PjpWI6N2hMETbmhbssfqtZErSniz6PoB-BGDARnw1IKjHtkNoG2y2VlN5fx9sQLpq6S-ffv3i4E-io-OUhASBCizf15b8wCAu_E8aE9LBKoA_9MK0YH8KnBcRnLITtr1vIH_1c-l_QtLAbQdGFhs5HCn6745oLtti0seOJ/w400-h266/P1060206.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's the back side and the reason I trimmed off the tips -- no bulk and a nice flat center.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglw1A4dAhJhV0nO7nf1xJxHePORiB5wfjx8naBjALTlZs8zBIwe2sNxkuN3XbtIuJAQWqTapOwWguwr4o5GtA06qB7xQr_N0sXJp2yK-T6OYdAEiX4VkN3AElKS1WyLz6uIKcctxhyXKxl4Ae6RZnvazJge_3_EZEnAaUb56evrNID8Anj2MQH9CfOGxKG/s5472/P1060208.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglw1A4dAhJhV0nO7nf1xJxHePORiB5wfjx8naBjALTlZs8zBIwe2sNxkuN3XbtIuJAQWqTapOwWguwr4o5GtA06qB7xQr_N0sXJp2yK-T6OYdAEiX4VkN3AElKS1WyLz6uIKcctxhyXKxl4Ae6RZnvazJge_3_EZEnAaUb56evrNID8Anj2MQH9CfOGxKG/w400-h266/P1060208.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My finished sample block -- it's destined for the potholder pile. I should have picked a stronger yellow as the points fade into the background more than I'd like.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now onto the blocks for my new version of Dresden Stars.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKx9RMwXni8VlK4vIZM3WGFSO06hhaSvjgkL8qJGksEJiFY7JV8ChG6_wETDfozCT9OP8oPhSC5CIWCiW-a_1C9qe1UVkWHiA_1kZ5_KBKhd8o_voprlE3iAybDWMZxQ68YAEGDtQgm7p-VkRs7eUy8NjX6wflfMMrrnwQkW4zp3yFO4f1ZE97MOegV9X/s3995/P1060212%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="3995" height="365" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYKx9RMwXni8VlK4vIZM3WGFSO06hhaSvjgkL8qJGksEJiFY7JV8ChG6_wETDfozCT9OP8oPhSC5CIWCiW-a_1C9qe1UVkWHiA_1kZ5_KBKhd8o_voprlE3iAybDWMZxQ68YAEGDtQgm7p-VkRs7eUy8NjX6wflfMMrrnwQkW4zp3yFO4f1ZE97MOegV9X/w400-h365/P1060212%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you are making the pattern size quilt, you'll need to piece seven star blocks. I'm making a laprobe size and will need thirteen star blocks. There are also some half-star blocks which I'll cover in Part 4 along with an introduction to the setting of this quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My UFO project is waiting for my return to the machine! In a couple weeks, I'll have all the Dresden Star blocks ready (one a day) and a few more blocks finished for the UFO.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFUn0vBLnptiB3FZqIAHgxR2j42Dfcrf2BnNLo3QUg4-In7spDBcx9fRNl4klnQqDq2X5C-UasNOvAB0CKYnpLhDbRAEJI_TqVGIZBLLao6g6X0Pk_6U7Zns8rIDzNNTWck6x6HFv1dObQLx4GZ2xKqZJBqHvs1eDKshsUUJbNtL9oDUB1LCTf9xPwi0M/s4191/P1060211%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3045" data-original-width="4191" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXFUn0vBLnptiB3FZqIAHgxR2j42Dfcrf2BnNLo3QUg4-In7spDBcx9fRNl4klnQqDq2X5C-UasNOvAB0CKYnpLhDbRAEJI_TqVGIZBLLao6g6X0Pk_6U7Zns8rIDzNNTWck6x6HFv1dObQLx4GZ2xKqZJBqHvs1eDKshsUUJbNtL9oDUB1LCTf9xPwi0M/w400-h290/P1060211%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have nine finished of the thirty (or thirty-five) I need for this UFO, a lap size quilt top -- we'll see how many I finish. Another nine would put me over the halfway mark!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcBzJt1t2k-QSeWPYXxsAUpJFYuURFgJ0GDLmpFSwJw0GH0P0vwiMV-Y_AIeC5f9X5GGAxNgRbegdouE-LCOP1IoIVmAZpoDsoxc_v0vO7cCyPL_1JvAn4MNQPo4bUTIWnMzMNDM1xn_CS92o_ij4E9WHG2deILBeCA8HVHWPlTyWU0xWbC2ORREF8_C2/s2384/P1060210%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2305" data-original-width="2384" height="386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtcBzJt1t2k-QSeWPYXxsAUpJFYuURFgJ0GDLmpFSwJw0GH0P0vwiMV-Y_AIeC5f9X5GGAxNgRbegdouE-LCOP1IoIVmAZpoDsoxc_v0vO7cCyPL_1JvAn4MNQPo4bUTIWnMzMNDM1xn_CS92o_ij4E9WHG2deILBeCA8HVHWPlTyWU0xWbC2ORREF8_C2/w400-h386/P1060210%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-large;">THIS WEEK'S ACTION STEPS:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Sew, sew, sew!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you have questions, put them in the comments. I'm checking everyday to see if answers are needed!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll post Part 4 in two weeks -- July 19 -- with the half blocks and cutting for the setting triangles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Just for fun, if you are on Instagram, post your blocks as you finish them -- use the hashtag, #dresdenstarquilt and tag me @hueymary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-81382234515216121502023-07-01T11:55:00.000-07:002023-07-01T11:55:12.760-07:00Accountability -- Second Quarter 2023 Review<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Saturday morning -- July 1 -- I've started a batch of sourdough ciabatti bread which means hanging out near the kitchen for the next hour to do a series of "stretch and folds". Since my office is adjacent, I'll interrupt the Dresden Stars tutorial series to write this second quarter "accountability" post.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Reading this is optional for you!?!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;">1. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;"> Finish six more UFO's from the leftover 2022 list</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;">. Mmmm, no finishes here but a wee bit of progress. This wallhanging which is my last Circle Play teaching sample is at the quilting stage - stalled out on the borders but have an idea now -- just dealing with the trepidation of actually doing it -- you know, it's the old "I'll ruin it with the quilting" fear.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3Fot4hwpw5MsLG5UH_nKcHzpbu0SJoc981-X2oLovLPjw0lhdVyNA___vmwgTQWrtiu7kuu7gg9RwGZI470H1AKRxwdVQotzoJ6zyMvjKgvW_Kvngcxu73yKoe1iAWKxfTT88Ixp7Vg0rVrkGn1iEOJWL0MIDFsp7S5E1XOtPC3lwnJtDQuNSmy8Bm-l/s4854/P1060193%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2913" data-original-width="4854" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3Fot4hwpw5MsLG5UH_nKcHzpbu0SJoc981-X2oLovLPjw0lhdVyNA___vmwgTQWrtiu7kuu7gg9RwGZI470H1AKRxwdVQotzoJ6zyMvjKgvW_Kvngcxu73yKoe1iAWKxfTT88Ixp7Vg0rVrkGn1iEOJWL0MIDFsp7S5E1XOtPC3lwnJtDQuNSmy8Bm-l/w640-h384/P1060193%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I have finished piecing the three that are left from the 2022 list and am ready to organize backings and do some quilting!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">2. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Quilt the new tops I made in 2022</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">. Good progress here. I finished my Homage to Grandmothers Flower Garden in mid-April. It's going to hang in the guest room sometime this summer after a couple decor updates!<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULsDAEe7-R7QKt7pirQU4f1OjuCprgBReAOqKYN8AJH7SUzH_SZ04GBzbUwOsgq2zdlqkkdGPdvm_hfjDQo29mf_p_ddWaD6deMPnxDxubjCS8rj75h9WsG_plnhPiNE0i81db0C_7GsCMdQHqknRWdhIIxYBy4Pnjc-PuLiCn1n_ksPCtyrDX5ETfOpI/s2487/IMG_20230426_100833898_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="2323" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgULsDAEe7-R7QKt7pirQU4f1OjuCprgBReAOqKYN8AJH7SUzH_SZ04GBzbUwOsgq2zdlqkkdGPdvm_hfjDQo29mf_p_ddWaD6deMPnxDxubjCS8rj75h9WsG_plnhPiNE0i81db0C_7GsCMdQHqknRWdhIIxYBy4Pnjc-PuLiCn1n_ksPCtyrDX5ETfOpI/w598-h640/IMG_20230426_100833898_HDR.jpg" width="598" /></a></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My version of Jennifer Sampou's Polygon quilt was finished mid-May. I haven't talked much about this quilt here on the blog -- lots of little struggles with the making. While I like the finished quilt, some of the construction techniques probably pushed me outside my box more often than not if I'm honest. It's on the giveaway list -- first offer to my girls and grand-girls. I used a "new to me" batting -- Hobbs Tuscany Cotton/Wool Blend. I'm pleased with the final look and feel of the quilt -- it has a nice loft, is soft, and washed up well.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzc04kTpYA0WfG0Iwx6SNTdNddquiEbw4eYgEeFeX507W8ho1IeirjWImyZ9UcE3XnZDsmObgHXWTHYWoSNX4O28-w1vlkQLUm3FkBhQ3Aiy4PWRhpgb3Vn-blHyjGRc1e24u-TTIy4SleSsHb2Wf2r3uhfwCvXwfpUubnqFiK431FZjVywb7hTJ9EmXNW/s4160/IMG_20230701_141832104_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="3120" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzc04kTpYA0WfG0Iwx6SNTdNddquiEbw4eYgEeFeX507W8ho1IeirjWImyZ9UcE3XnZDsmObgHXWTHYWoSNX4O28-w1vlkQLUm3FkBhQ3Aiy4PWRhpgb3Vn-blHyjGRc1e24u-TTIy4SleSsHb2Wf2r3uhfwCvXwfpUubnqFiK431FZjVywb7hTJ9EmXNW/w480-h640/IMG_20230701_141832104_HDR.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">3. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Deal with all the antique/vintage quilt tops I own</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">. Oh, boy -- no progress here! I offered one of the tops to one of the large quilt museums back in January as a study piece but they just got back to me this week and politely declined -- so new plan needed. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This pink and green applique is a family quilt and happily will stay in the family, but I've been waffling about the quilting process -- time to bite the bullet and go for it!!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWwm5RcHP7rp1X7D2p-2irz91R661UXQY91oszCVJZpUpGeIcNCgj1KeqVmtoGyzAqNaW4rmtyJ2jilmfKeUjfN6guOTyJgDuI3YLyzxZ8GJLYZKvA-OxaZXUZ2HikGjVgtuzyRj5dhaQvSPs7IX28ob0rjwlj19zPzuMhtNL1k-WKoswOjGgUMBv-C30I/s4550/P1060194%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3393" data-original-width="4550" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWwm5RcHP7rp1X7D2p-2irz91R661UXQY91oszCVJZpUpGeIcNCgj1KeqVmtoGyzAqNaW4rmtyJ2jilmfKeUjfN6guOTyJgDuI3YLyzxZ8GJLYZKvA-OxaZXUZ2HikGjVgtuzyRj5dhaQvSPs7IX28ob0rjwlj19zPzuMhtNL1k-WKoswOjGgUMBv-C30I/w400-h299/P1060194%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">4. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">If/when I start new projects, chose from a list of seven.</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> The</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> cutting, piecing and applique work is progressing well on the two I started at the beginning of the year. The Flourishes applique blocks are up-to-date -- block number </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: left;">six of twelve finished. </span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfS7avAjTbsW70n9MFY6vO1lz-AcqU1xfq_ot-mqr5htNBg9cHRqVN86LJaVzipdcnyWe3VHYG0k77ddKvma3oOImQRsNK5aQQj5w-fo78R7W4zK1dCLq_dFuhFTt76NBsjAIIEynWaryEZsNKu40HfIMS0nHnn0H_I4LSFx_G9If6JBLRuIiGJUn3MTKV/s3107/P1060192%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3107" data-original-width="3084" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfS7avAjTbsW70n9MFY6vO1lz-AcqU1xfq_ot-mqr5htNBg9cHRqVN86LJaVzipdcnyWe3VHYG0k77ddKvma3oOImQRsNK5aQQj5w-fo78R7W4zK1dCLq_dFuhFTt76NBsjAIIEynWaryEZsNKu40HfIMS0nHnn0H_I4LSFx_G9If6JBLRuIiGJUn3MTKV/w398-h400/P1060192%20(2).JPG" width="398" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfS7avAjTbsW70n9MFY6vO1lz-AcqU1xfq_ot-mqr5htNBg9cHRqVN86LJaVzipdcnyWe3VHYG0k77ddKvma3oOImQRsNK5aQQj5w-fo78R7W4zK1dCLq_dFuhFTt76NBsjAIIEynWaryEZsNKu40HfIMS0nHnn0H_I4LSFx_G9If6JBLRuIiGJUn3MTKV/s3107/P1060192%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div></div></span><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Hexatravaganza wreaths are finished -- twelve of twelve so I'm ready to chose background fabrics and start appliqueing the wreaths in place. Note: the pattern calls for 20 blocks but I've started to scale down most of my work these days since quilting really big pieces is hard on my body.</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj750WxUmIL5rorzZ1wCbUbAsndBnA_fvzqiRMDIvcyXvAU9U5vaSDgFoZkjD8Uc42KdsDEW2VkyoybCGRywg9z13q_Q0vqgL_cS7ayxYVLVv_No5OKDDyiOBSABCdAoxxjmb2F9ZakhXS8Tg9lmdV00OmtMF7CYKAhxaV5DBXO2ZkIhkE_v2dZ3Buelm22/s4413/P1060190%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4413" data-original-width="3099" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj750WxUmIL5rorzZ1wCbUbAsndBnA_fvzqiRMDIvcyXvAU9U5vaSDgFoZkjD8Uc42KdsDEW2VkyoybCGRywg9z13q_Q0vqgL_cS7ayxYVLVv_No5OKDDyiOBSABCdAoxxjmb2F9ZakhXS8Tg9lmdV00OmtMF7CYKAhxaV5DBXO2ZkIhkE_v2dZ3Buelm22/w450-h640/P1060190%20(2).JPG" width="450" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: large;">And as might be expected, I've found a couple other new projects . . . . okay, okay . . . four new quilt projects that I have launched this quarter that weren't on the list. In my defense, I didn't know about them at the beginning of the year?!?</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The (not-on-the-list) Whirly Weeds sew-along that I caved to in March wrapped up the end of May and I have a finished top and the backing prepped so it's in the quilting queue!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRkahJFfpfPANn0vPMJTSjvn-hEQBIYlepq-71KDg_E4-lugTYcHwj3FnSeVlCzp_U2Ut3kr1cR0MD89rVA_ZuiPu0lX-IP9YdR2TcaEazRo4-ylZ0cd6HlZKCgTv5xDvpN9c1YQVmIGcTftZ25r3mF_10zJvT-5IcyXaBrI2Vcd9UG6x-N0-vx-2rARJ/s2749/IMG_20230607_174344773.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="2749" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWRkahJFfpfPANn0vPMJTSjvn-hEQBIYlepq-71KDg_E4-lugTYcHwj3FnSeVlCzp_U2Ut3kr1cR0MD89rVA_ZuiPu0lX-IP9YdR2TcaEazRo4-ylZ0cd6HlZKCgTv5xDvpN9c1YQVmIGcTftZ25r3mF_10zJvT-5IcyXaBrI2Vcd9UG6x-N0-vx-2rARJ/w640-h544/IMG_20230607_174344773.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Another sew-along I didn't resist was in American Patchwork and Quilting magazine -- scrappy, simple blocks, just what I love -- but I fell behind so now it has become my "leaders and enders" project for the Dresden Star tutorial series work. I've downsized my version of this quilt, too -- it will be a large lap robe and an easy one to give away. I've pulled out my 1800's reproduction print stash for this one!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsT95bszWC1yAJQkK4UbCW2gCQkIgy-Uj3TGgnk_nkrrEgc4RiHmQi-Wr7SWJ4ueAxau5lERCXzMXmVqxdytMNVxw1oQuv0ZhSnor2wPu7P3wua_VpIkmXkt7-3owI-6SATNt4pun3YHcMf33XqDLuNlRzIr_fzhqaKBeLoex06oL6Kq43pDtCVcVsAAD/s4866/P1060188%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3351" data-original-width="4866" height="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsT95bszWC1yAJQkK4UbCW2gCQkIgy-Uj3TGgnk_nkrrEgc4RiHmQi-Wr7SWJ4ueAxau5lERCXzMXmVqxdytMNVxw1oQuv0ZhSnor2wPu7P3wua_VpIkmXkt7-3owI-6SATNt4pun3YHcMf33XqDLuNlRzIr_fzhqaKBeLoex06oL6Kq43pDtCVcVsAAD/w640-h440/P1060188%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I love this K K Drama sew-along hosted by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/meerkatshweshwe/" target="_blank">Celeste at @meerkatshweshwe</a> Six blocks, one a month and make six versions of the blocks -- we just got the third block and so far, they've been quick makes. And it's all stash fabric!!</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZuFBHETXQQ-CmkoyGXQMz8l9lHuYo2wZNqCPbhU5Y_7jlzWacCVV_CgMfEFyU2uHsCSdBL-mCQd_BmMxzOY7bSVsKltIOdBKjymlA_FRnYVyNkeVuObsB_jdDUFXnuNnSetpyNZaxz27Uwv3tBN9UuEJ650bAPtl0Et0acGoNIjo_HqBIoseoFJoo1ON/s3343/P1060191%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3302" data-original-width="3343" height="395" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4ZuFBHETXQQ-CmkoyGXQMz8l9lHuYo2wZNqCPbhU5Y_7jlzWacCVV_CgMfEFyU2uHsCSdBL-mCQd_BmMxzOY7bSVsKltIOdBKjymlA_FRnYVyNkeVuObsB_jdDUFXnuNnSetpyNZaxz27Uwv3tBN9UuEJ650bAPtl0Et0acGoNIjo_HqBIoseoFJoo1ON/w400-h395/P1060191%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In addition, I've started cutting two projects -- I'm using lots of florals for both and the quilts will be very scrappy so it's just easier to cut for two while a fabric is ironed and on the cutting table! I don't think the two quilts will look the same since the florals will be paired with modern brights in one quilt and pretty prints in the other. (I'm so good at rationalizing?!? Gold Star!!) Plus I'm "not allowed" to start piecing them until two other piecing projects are done??? (Who makes these rules?)</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">5. </span><u style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Rehome twelve finished quilts</u><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">. So my original intent is setting this goal was to reduce the current in-house stock and while I have given away 4 finished quilts and 3 tops this quarter, they haven't exactly met that initial criteria. The three quilt tops were UFO's that I finished, made backings, and donated (with binding fabric) to folks for charitable work -- so that's good -- three less UFO's!! But only one of the four quilts I gave away existed at the end of 2022. These two little quilts made with African prints from my stash brought the quarter's "give away" total for 2023 to eleven!! </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70mVNGO6YlwtMyHrH5iPrRGRLNCO_bwCZr15h4Iof3yAvxTc_LZGy10czG3avTaK3921h_2XpmxmxyzLTJwFzsh1VBZjB0pXKCZiehCNYZiKNpPDRI1OBJb39qQ1jbwTmGgYznmWFHQSsFWCOGgBTEHJtfBPoTES7fjGLApoLWUJYdNfQxcm4cBnt7qSD/s4160/IMG_20230607_193920423_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh70mVNGO6YlwtMyHrH5iPrRGRLNCO_bwCZr15h4Iof3yAvxTc_LZGy10czG3avTaK3921h_2XpmxmxyzLTJwFzsh1VBZjB0pXKCZiehCNYZiKNpPDRI1OBJb39qQ1jbwTmGgYznmWFHQSsFWCOGgBTEHJtfBPoTES7fjGLApoLWUJYdNfQxcm4cBnt7qSD/w640-h360/IMG_20230607_193920423_HDR.jpg" width="640" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Better luck next quarter on letting go of quilts, Mary!!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Berry season is in full swing in my backyard -- the strawberries just finished and the currants and the raspberries are in full swing. There aren't lots of raspberries and frankly I eat most of them on the way in from the garden. But the red currants are another story -- I have two large bushes and try to freeze as many as I can. Needless to say, the local robins are loving my garden right now!!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBKVuCSDyXvqddNBuIdBBVU9lgEo_1RXlY05DnKRb1damBv3RzdC8FDwun_rY-tm0Kw3T1AKcPxlv5EeP-yGAfwgk8Ewg2NXc395UASLl5ZSNPABbk9eWjQY5uvsb1YM-w17S0881Dv8BRJc12h_BjfiLaRd_CVz32OzRVxQ5tRpf0p5-mvWgnjM_I0Y-/s5472/P1060186.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyBKVuCSDyXvqddNBuIdBBVU9lgEo_1RXlY05DnKRb1damBv3RzdC8FDwun_rY-tm0Kw3T1AKcPxlv5EeP-yGAfwgk8Ewg2NXc395UASLl5ZSNPABbk9eWjQY5uvsb1YM-w17S0881Dv8BRJc12h_BjfiLaRd_CVz32OzRVxQ5tRpf0p5-mvWgnjM_I0Y-/w640-h426/P1060186.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Onward into summer!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mary</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you are in the northern United States or Canada, be cautious with the smoke situation from the northern wildfires. I'm having to be stern with myself about masking but the other day, I read the impact is like smoking cigarettes. Hopefully, this isn't a new normal for us!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although, it is a good reason to stay indoors and sew!?!</span></span></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-15216798380320219662023-06-28T15:18:00.000-07:002023-06-28T15:18:03.834-07:00Part 2 -- Dresden Stars Tutorials<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you ready? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, I'll review the templates and cutting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">For one block, you need six pairs of blades, six kites, six background diamonds and a 1" finished hexagon to applique to the center (I'll cover preparing the hexagon in Part 3).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG_Cb8uD4WW7bRM__77tXh7Y85AZCpdu0V27FaJxg-25xj2Ccsby2g8Kg20eYSgqmYe8gfJov-cs-d-IfiLOy_S7u5nmSWhrF0w_OAsOJfMgxWieVDbn1vf77vexQRmacy8h4fQJidm-BigGFdCYZDqJkEYWs8x8nqf8RQswmZHPIiWTzZ7hWVEu6dku4/s3346/P1060116%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2951" data-original-width="3346" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPG_Cb8uD4WW7bRM__77tXh7Y85AZCpdu0V27FaJxg-25xj2Ccsby2g8Kg20eYSgqmYe8gfJov-cs-d-IfiLOy_S7u5nmSWhrF0w_OAsOJfMgxWieVDbn1vf77vexQRmacy8h4fQJidm-BigGFdCYZDqJkEYWs8x8nqf8RQswmZHPIiWTzZ7hWVEu6dku4/w640-h564/P1060116%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let's start with a look at the templates to use.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />The last page of the pattern has the three pattern pieces drafted without seam allowances and was done in a response for requests from students wanting to hand piece the block or English paper piece. These can be used to make rotary cutting templates if you prefer. You'll need template plastic, a glue stick and an extra copy of the pattern page.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfh4dKzIxKqz9IkqPlCPRKP88chzD5dt-Na9Wosp7IOzxwQG5MGKr90JpPVFT4Fu-5xPtxHDWcWWKZFdMlEwqa3Ulu7IhFJ2a9-YTqk98d679TNt6q74cF7N8JOqlSxbjdcqzQerIdJdMwHoOzJTGag8npckVoEni2ppRBD7e8QnscXxyjsjm4bNRFiSTZ/s3951/P1060107%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3161" data-original-width="3951" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfh4dKzIxKqz9IkqPlCPRKP88chzD5dt-Na9Wosp7IOzxwQG5MGKr90JpPVFT4Fu-5xPtxHDWcWWKZFdMlEwqa3Ulu7IhFJ2a9-YTqk98d679TNt6q74cF7N8JOqlSxbjdcqzQerIdJdMwHoOzJTGag8npckVoEni2ppRBD7e8QnscXxyjsjm4bNRFiSTZ/w400-h320/P1060107%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Glue the pattern sheet to the template plastic and allow the glue to dry completely.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkix6u34pnC-_zrecgSgwxiN3yfpTWknaBqTBFI4668KtxflFeF0ywkDJL_WQ9o51oZeFlkOKhEDam1kwu4juQqkTrnPDeS66Mse13lQLfRog-5kzdzhWgTQtNbz3bKGTzL1F20FqYZEUuIVhWkb6GJdgKa2oe5e-l7kxaKwH-jIe9E7DMWq_ELA3l6OY/s4262/P1060108%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3212" data-original-width="4262" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkix6u34pnC-_zrecgSgwxiN3yfpTWknaBqTBFI4668KtxflFeF0ywkDJL_WQ9o51oZeFlkOKhEDam1kwu4juQqkTrnPDeS66Mse13lQLfRog-5kzdzhWgTQtNbz3bKGTzL1F20FqYZEUuIVhWkb6GJdgKa2oe5e-l7kxaKwH-jIe9E7DMWq_ELA3l6OY/w400-h301/P1060108%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the glue is dry, rough cut the three shapes apart leaving extra space. Then using a rotary ruler (with an old blade), cut the three shapes to size by placing a ruler on top of the template plastic aligning the 1/4" marks with the pattern line and cutting. This will add 1/4" seam allowance to each shape.</span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIcvascIAXiR5zTruTO_PKyM5qgEHubCZK4WHZd4hqrSP7585CoIWAv4CCOLmw4ZEy1ewXy_cuALmdaBXU9Kfai7D8Kj0YKrokjCVXzHFtAbEX_gGEFevp8Aa4NbOVopwuREyqz-UqRCcbD2fy5e49qMW7wLzbL_XYh7Mo1CV6tVTYdk7L6ITZV4kFWfb/s4385/P1060110%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3567" data-original-width="4385" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIcvascIAXiR5zTruTO_PKyM5qgEHubCZK4WHZd4hqrSP7585CoIWAv4CCOLmw4ZEy1ewXy_cuALmdaBXU9Kfai7D8Kj0YKrokjCVXzHFtAbEX_gGEFevp8Aa4NbOVopwuREyqz-UqRCcbD2fy5e49qMW7wLzbL_XYh7Mo1CV6tVTYdk7L6ITZV4kFWfb/w400-h325/P1060110%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The three templates are almost ready to use. Note that each has a "grain" line. I use these more to line up the template with the "grain of the print" than the fabric when working with directional prints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCS-gRbr_S9vteRUtD1eyNUduK7fH5mNjL3FG8Nf1PaL9nczYCPwHm8HIB2Tjy0ERbSGuffWUdnWInROHgmkTUxOFh7gGwM_bBAvnENnUmKJp5RVJOr50lVDlKyMxj6bJDJk354QfFUNCFCSwILhgZYv-5LYquaRaYSnXVDFf-4zx3526_2flHR3Vrz4W2/s4505/P1060111%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3008" data-original-width="4505" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCS-gRbr_S9vteRUtD1eyNUduK7fH5mNjL3FG8Nf1PaL9nczYCPwHm8HIB2Tjy0ERbSGuffWUdnWInROHgmkTUxOFh7gGwM_bBAvnENnUmKJp5RVJOr50lVDlKyMxj6bJDJk354QfFUNCFCSwILhgZYv-5LYquaRaYSnXVDFf-4zx3526_2flHR3Vrz4W2/w400-h268/P1060111%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The final step is to trim the points of the templates. Use a rotary ruler. Align it squarely with the tip of the pattern piece, draw a line 1/4" from the seam line and trim off the tip square to the ruler.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdbu3Demvc0qatn4iIuH3-6_NXHVnNGEmbuAXx7OUAlVVp6h8L0SsbhyiezYmn9L650djBNT-jpubl1CXoeqRO6xHIcg6YtjEBUbO_8XBGUPLHH3N8BjpK0okeA3TD8pK5DCax5V7h3iGN6ifqH0enw6G5GRFGsnzSOLvqB7vUjc2IMbegwJjjvTWDraT/s4343/P1060112%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3177" data-original-width="4343" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsdbu3Demvc0qatn4iIuH3-6_NXHVnNGEmbuAXx7OUAlVVp6h8L0SsbhyiezYmn9L650djBNT-jpubl1CXoeqRO6xHIcg6YtjEBUbO_8XBGUPLHH3N8BjpK0okeA3TD8pK5DCax5V7h3iGN6ifqH0enw6G5GRFGsnzSOLvqB7vUjc2IMbegwJjjvTWDraT/w400-h293/P1060112%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are the finished templates.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiownPB2OBdNMMDYon0xjzXZUj2Pk7NRS1X1Jkbg0CqUEICYKmRhRm0_l19B2I5UiyMrvwDqoGsXvePLdhn1OQw4bQLaXOHq_aY0PxMPK6Jh4_GG_pwDmidu1yA2v7Mu7iTuzY01s_w0I6K-r_3UcsXOhpbs7ex55Doj97ojy7o9-HAiNzCUbAUOKUW6eSq/s5472/P1060122.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiownPB2OBdNMMDYon0xjzXZUj2Pk7NRS1X1Jkbg0CqUEICYKmRhRm0_l19B2I5UiyMrvwDqoGsXvePLdhn1OQw4bQLaXOHq_aY0PxMPK6Jh4_GG_pwDmidu1yA2v7Mu7iTuzY01s_w0I6K-r_3UcsXOhpbs7ex55Doj97ojy7o9-HAiNzCUbAUOKUW6eSq/w400-h266/P1060122.JPG" width="400" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I prefer to use Marti Michell's templates -- they are so accurate and versatile. Here's a quick story on me to illustrate the 180 degree flip I did on cutting patchwork with templates. Marti recruited me to work as an educator for her when I closed my shop in 2005. I was surprised because I had been avoiding her and her templates for years!?! She convinced me to spend a week with her in Atlanta learning to work with them and I came away convinced. The biggest selling point for me has been the increased accuracy of my piecing. Using a template to cut pieces means all the pieces are exactly the same and that is HUGE when working with complex shapes like diamonds and hexagons. </span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For this block, I use template H52 and H52b plus the "kite" from the 2" Kite & Crown set. See all those purple shapes printed on H52 -- those are all the shapes that can be cut with this one template. I'll be using 52b -- the half diamond. Also I should mention that my kite template doesn't have any markings printed onto it because it was a "proto-type" -- yours will have printing on it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">** I leave some of the paper backing on my templates to cut down on "skidding".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Mak5LB-gVVvnAPNBxyIVpuhoVHTxQwojhH5TNt_W3Sw2moR0yqN7FIvx3fZPxGBGhu8QhbEl8_uViuAjUqq_axLmCmqQTiereeizmRIyQp-Svk9QOAuuRP73hKkRQYjiOu_BJBKXAuhJ5ghK7Dp5vV5GpSZPFTytBtizJOJU9kSYKTMIWEU5S4gnv9RJ/s4351/P1060141%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3482" data-original-width="4351" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4Mak5LB-gVVvnAPNBxyIVpuhoVHTxQwojhH5TNt_W3Sw2moR0yqN7FIvx3fZPxGBGhu8QhbEl8_uViuAjUqq_axLmCmqQTiereeizmRIyQp-Svk9QOAuuRP73hKkRQYjiOu_BJBKXAuhJ5ghK7Dp5vV5GpSZPFTytBtizJOJU9kSYKTMIWEU5S4gnv9RJ/w400-h320/P1060141%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since I'm working with 10" layer cake squares, I begin by layering a pair of squares <u>right sides together.</u> I cut three 2 1/4" strips. If you are working with a jelly roll or 2 1/2" strips from your stash, there is no need to trim the strips down, just layer a pair <u>right sides together</u>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7MxGqMliD92VL6FsfgIKetAk6EJbHV7gBe7fGgkpdpmzH2nLrQwKZRIY8kWNl_JznYasz4LUnTQedGlChYLE1yXg41Rry5KaY-5L5ODP6riujWxkVYa8DunRj3XmNGZqZCsbSj6RKZBBNs4vceMboGHB0SM7c06WJ_0F3NJdcnKnvynqR81TUb7BWziV/s5472/P1060142.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ7MxGqMliD92VL6FsfgIKetAk6EJbHV7gBe7fGgkpdpmzH2nLrQwKZRIY8kWNl_JznYasz4LUnTQedGlChYLE1yXg41Rry5KaY-5L5ODP6riujWxkVYa8DunRj3XmNGZqZCsbSj6RKZBBNs4vceMboGHB0SM7c06WJ_0F3NJdcnKnvynqR81TUb7BWziV/w400-h266/P1060142.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To cut a pair of "blades", align the solid purple line of the template along one edge of the strips as shown above. If you are working with homemade templates, use the "blade" template.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cut pairs until you have six sets as shown below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Don't separate the pairs and leave them on the cutting mat for the "trim" step.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">(The leftovers at the top of the picture will be used for kite points on other blocks.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtWkZ_vjI3lVYpUKylMqpKd1C9lojHSpZoYcNxQxQKyZWFYc6X1w2gl4s7wGygE1zNGweCnc9Gc32Em-_0dje_xoH81-lWyhbp_ttYBnL0BN4zaRSnDG2QLit1izoMOxdzPQcAhhP5rEgAP9J3coro8aXxY5PM4zhDN3zfZCWZ0XeEEzdOsbPQfb_I8x4N/s4383/P1060143%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3309" data-original-width="4383" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtWkZ_vjI3lVYpUKylMqpKd1C9lojHSpZoYcNxQxQKyZWFYc6X1w2gl4s7wGygE1zNGweCnc9Gc32Em-_0dje_xoH81-lWyhbp_ttYBnL0BN4zaRSnDG2QLit1izoMOxdzPQcAhhP5rEgAP9J3coro8aXxY5PM4zhDN3zfZCWZ0XeEEzdOsbPQfb_I8x4N/w640-h484/P1060143%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You'll notice I've shifted the template a bit to one end which is different than the pattern picture you have. Just saving a bit of fabric.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now for the trimming step.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Save your brain energy and line up the blade pairs and the pattern photo to match.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Use the kite template and line it up as in the photo, trimming the right end of the blade pairs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you made your blade template, you don't need to do this trim.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQh1HfHBhbTV9xT9jafT-2977psO5w9jtWZTlE7ccc-Z09PDJQEMuFUi7T9s0QWTs16tcI0falZM0K6SYQYGDdBPZw20iVCoK17GrirSBKQciNEloOdBsQ9p2O86FrZfmFnNLOUXNTEPiZMLSeNJrvuD_Y9FdkM65XbqIvhMgJ9wCo4qbQkw8hFjCgPR9k/s5472/P1060144.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQh1HfHBhbTV9xT9jafT-2977psO5w9jtWZTlE7ccc-Z09PDJQEMuFUi7T9s0QWTs16tcI0falZM0K6SYQYGDdBPZw20iVCoK17GrirSBKQciNEloOdBsQ9p2O86FrZfmFnNLOUXNTEPiZMLSeNJrvuD_Y9FdkM65XbqIvhMgJ9wCo4qbQkw8hFjCgPR9k/w640-h426/P1060144.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Before lifting the kite template off the fabric, grab a sharp pencil and use the hole in the template to make a dot on the wrong side of the blade -- just one dot for each blade pair -- <u>don't skip this step!!</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9HSJOGRUKjsWMJo0WKbgOCU_ryRx9oYF8mDPtcUWQSMMQa95yLl2wf85p4BCcFoheCeZZs-V-vNVGW8Z5hVVaagzVYzK0eyyOA1SU3BnTn58bkCnXIBhV41z0cPIbU-pne4UdQP1LiR330nP5m8PmHWZFeuCLorOvLQHtQWy3uL2uhjlLG548wK02lCz/s5472/P1060145.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh9HSJOGRUKjsWMJo0WKbgOCU_ryRx9oYF8mDPtcUWQSMMQa95yLl2wf85p4BCcFoheCeZZs-V-vNVGW8Z5hVVaagzVYzK0eyyOA1SU3BnTn58bkCnXIBhV41z0cPIbU-pne4UdQP1LiR330nP5m8PmHWZFeuCLorOvLQHtQWy3uL2uhjlLG548wK02lCz/w400-h266/P1060145.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This signals you where to stop sewing when we start the piecing next week!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAkZ8rDeSKfXf3kBCoiXiQHQsgpGcVrer77qTWi9uWaaCK-7E01Fi5PTPJONzkcG9BCwSFqf82xXacDSfhFp7z72Kj4UfNEHgI4mVuGkJEl_NFr3FqSwkNuNfws4G6Eoq0ZDgGGubbTgmNcEBwR5QzxRTopyEXezwckfQTv15ReIdGyG2ZG4IjVVdedm3t/s3559/P1060146%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2507" data-original-width="3559" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAkZ8rDeSKfXf3kBCoiXiQHQsgpGcVrer77qTWi9uWaaCK-7E01Fi5PTPJONzkcG9BCwSFqf82xXacDSfhFp7z72Kj4UfNEHgI4mVuGkJEl_NFr3FqSwkNuNfws4G6Eoq0ZDgGGubbTgmNcEBwR5QzxRTopyEXezwckfQTv15ReIdGyG2ZG4IjVVdedm3t/w400-h281/P1060146%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now cut six kite shapes from a contrasting print. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm using the leftover from another blade pair.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzxlXeUT8TLOFNq1gu1Wjrbe4qMFOGNhq-DxC9KTYSl1UDX9u52Om76_z5-Aznsk2eynMA7NC8XG7akAjkdGvYMFkCwudROjxKtw82crGCQjvd6GwXSJuP36AFxJvyLbzu0-l5USomoVm_203WmtRJtmyz3UIVN9oOjxwVXNYk0NJ2F01y4hGnRVzOtSI/s5472/P1060148.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzxlXeUT8TLOFNq1gu1Wjrbe4qMFOGNhq-DxC9KTYSl1UDX9u52Om76_z5-Aznsk2eynMA7NC8XG7akAjkdGvYMFkCwudROjxKtw82crGCQjvd6GwXSJuP36AFxJvyLbzu0-l5USomoVm_203WmtRJtmyz3UIVN9oOjxwVXNYk0NJ2F01y4hGnRVzOtSI/w400-h266/P1060148.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There is enough fabric to cut six of these if you set the template against the cut edge from the previous kite. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifS4IOr0MBz1JQXbjSrZnB1IdQUHJk93atTGuGpxwqchu7lIjbFcsMV9rQNjh-5AkG-bwQLHNnXt3xW8R0gcHpHShQucX6tV9Y-fFfIjAEkQ0xFmcHffTeViNuQC6PumQ-ITHJKMhJ-dSq247tnUAWPdDz_BJzT-FDUFCu2tgMpdff5lAY7HBNoUfW8Wky/s5472/P1060149.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifS4IOr0MBz1JQXbjSrZnB1IdQUHJk93atTGuGpxwqchu7lIjbFcsMV9rQNjh-5AkG-bwQLHNnXt3xW8R0gcHpHShQucX6tV9Y-fFfIjAEkQ0xFmcHffTeViNuQC6PumQ-ITHJKMhJ-dSq247tnUAWPdDz_BJzT-FDUFCu2tgMpdff5lAY7HBNoUfW8Wky/w400-h266/P1060149.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"> If you are working with jelly roll strips, the template will just fit. I match the "flat" point to one edge and if the other end falls a wee bit off the edge, it works out okay because we will have a "dot" at that end.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJHzFaBVJb-KV1YPYVa2zyoNl5qReJqOyOzREZpzVzduh6lzTnVhZc6hGa3vmcVd-sxzEQWgWZDgZ6fAV_49Z5C3s7nqzXlHB-v6oAG28FRLZ91aYvWqrzrSNubeZ1FO6an42Upa7yAd9_Ixe67c92T6hagbk3AS0XXii62VAqWM6qNlPzn5Lduhp0iL4E/s3549/P1060184%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3345" data-original-width="3549" height="302" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJHzFaBVJb-KV1YPYVa2zyoNl5qReJqOyOzREZpzVzduh6lzTnVhZc6hGa3vmcVd-sxzEQWgWZDgZ6fAV_49Z5C3s7nqzXlHB-v6oAG28FRLZ91aYvWqrzrSNubeZ1FO6an42Upa7yAd9_Ixe67c92T6hagbk3AS0XXii62VAqWM6qNlPzn5Lduhp0iL4E/s320/P1060184%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Six kites!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6UiD5xGZUg50KSjp5HaI790ZlxHpf3YUJKSPEgpMWeHJgJ93y0Ngi9J5mb5vqmuAc5dlmmQSugtXk-UMrQteZw7di16sHepcJv74DzIXfWC3ZKt7c6a2RapxeLUXevKsYMDxQ86bjbuD3bmwFD-M0YsOVrIIKq55k1JPAygibkMworZay4ySLeplIvGxH/s5472/P1060150.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6UiD5xGZUg50KSjp5HaI790ZlxHpf3YUJKSPEgpMWeHJgJ93y0Ngi9J5mb5vqmuAc5dlmmQSugtXk-UMrQteZw7di16sHepcJv74DzIXfWC3ZKt7c6a2RapxeLUXevKsYMDxQ86bjbuD3bmwFD-M0YsOVrIIKq55k1JPAygibkMworZay4ySLeplIvGxH/w400-h266/P1060150.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On the wrong side of each kite, mark one dot! That's all you need!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_08beYjhRH48VnOw7G8Nwri4hstlMFV3py8jdcHRI528pblckaxYxwHZHsGKSrHNQwC_f-4iMAOBMSQYU01dVCA2lyKeUTy2H79hkMTihjvSv2u0K6Ry8cFPWA76d_WCIt2HKF1616DKhMQe1JH2RQOjT08X5KLSbsscSV6MmOa7u8sycKR9m2Z25Vl-/s5472/P1060152.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_08beYjhRH48VnOw7G8Nwri4hstlMFV3py8jdcHRI528pblckaxYxwHZHsGKSrHNQwC_f-4iMAOBMSQYU01dVCA2lyKeUTy2H79hkMTihjvSv2u0K6Ry8cFPWA76d_WCIt2HKF1616DKhMQe1JH2RQOjT08X5KLSbsscSV6MmOa7u8sycKR9m2Z25Vl-/w400-h266/P1060152.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now you just need to cut background diamonds to fill out the edges of the blocks. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Start with 3 1/8" strips regardless of which template your are using. One strip across the width of the fabric will yield 9 diamonds, so two strips will give you 18 diamonds, enough for three blocks.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUHf_c64Ug4NKJ5X6iJYZbNBahwa8FdGtKp0Bmxe9I6VoUbisEXGS24y6fEdWwCNllTU_qL5GzzNP5WPHz59jQ83YvtNYH1KFB2HxJQk8FfukFgYfVlSELx8npgbbFSPPWXaTuo5Lxsy8swsuZzOAer6mpW8_F-yNL_tbyD6l-D8MALOptb16OACWkRE0/s5472/P1060158.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAUHf_c64Ug4NKJ5X6iJYZbNBahwa8FdGtKp0Bmxe9I6VoUbisEXGS24y6fEdWwCNllTU_qL5GzzNP5WPHz59jQ83YvtNYH1KFB2HxJQk8FfukFgYfVlSELx8npgbbFSPPWXaTuo5Lxsy8swsuZzOAer6mpW8_F-yNL_tbyD6l-D8MALOptb16OACWkRE0/w400-h266/P1060158.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If cutting with the homemade template, I suggest laying a rotary ruler on top of it to prevent shaving the thin template with your rotary cutter.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUU5kBoJdkergTiR1VQJqEp3W9KDZdxIpyxWZFDrdwavbcazA463knzyjb-OQW2Z62OeJbu-tba2TMlGIiCF98xrAseqEQJ7EPW0fRgzUW426bZkelzFICQHvNojyAZl80RSz05wln_o9FLx_KLKCQRfy8kg_e52qgHpVBfdcMMXATDQgVPJOP1HQVBG0g/s5472/P1060159.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUU5kBoJdkergTiR1VQJqEp3W9KDZdxIpyxWZFDrdwavbcazA463knzyjb-OQW2Z62OeJbu-tba2TMlGIiCF98xrAseqEQJ7EPW0fRgzUW426bZkelzFICQHvNojyAZl80RSz05wln_o9FLx_KLKCQRfy8kg_e52qgHpVBfdcMMXATDQgVPJOP1HQVBG0g/w400-h266/P1060159.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Final step, two dots -- one on each side. There is no need to transfer dots to the sharp pointed ends.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQfefsXdS9WL5N7aTV74Hu3QhbhKxoHnff8XXf3SfgUFbxoCnfMHARDDX1bXNpMbfAtfvfP0fEpqKCTPUDEjHzDjctTmm_sUouCiWcxFGBoVCNHjVIyKOafeWwNzO68xvEtmbMN3ajrDIBysR3W9ugyJsv3ZTHxWUazoA2UU7EvuNU45vsy3RRrFhsWFJ/s5472/P1060160.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHQfefsXdS9WL5N7aTV74Hu3QhbhKxoHnff8XXf3SfgUFbxoCnfMHARDDX1bXNpMbfAtfvfP0fEpqKCTPUDEjHzDjctTmm_sUouCiWcxFGBoVCNHjVIyKOafeWwNzO68xvEtmbMN3ajrDIBysR3W9ugyJsv3ZTHxWUazoA2UU7EvuNU45vsy3RRrFhsWFJ/w400-h266/P1060160.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Final note -- if you are making templates, you will need to make a hole.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I suggest using Marti's DELUXE CORNER TRIMMER tool. It looks odd, but it's very versatile! It is used for trimming points (for better matching) and includes holes for transferring dots to many shapes.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijLXh8YBwttyZyvvx-_rctdwOt9kGaoHuOlvmBjcUFqgGSTdEuihAqqou8tFz18BA9lnlZy2Fw60Vn1pdbUgIvkAgmOhknsyOrkL2DIH6WNblU3hFHSw2xminYh2gjkNfIyBBdxbVkchoKWQV1lyQYAEB9QqERoMDsEQ1y8iu60er73tIhPm08ZwRhpWq/s5472/P1060174.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiijLXh8YBwttyZyvvx-_rctdwOt9kGaoHuOlvmBjcUFqgGSTdEuihAqqou8tFz18BA9lnlZy2Fw60Vn1pdbUgIvkAgmOhknsyOrkL2DIH6WNblU3hFHSw2xminYh2gjkNfIyBBdxbVkchoKWQV1lyQYAEB9QqERoMDsEQ1y8iu60er73tIhPm08ZwRhpWq/w400-h266/P1060174.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The 120 degree corner will cover all the corners that need to be marked!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVeESk86y1fnm4pz685fAHvfNweccMe1rgJKd53WpmApeKoN_BM6vaVOzFqktpzmFRuemhn39OGH3wtYpoXtodFtmGS_z-eRBp0jBQgYfy9ZDhXlC4CBuUdMv2mDU1VoZZwk5m8vqr4TsRfNZBq6lcZQ83sJSLvcsm6l24obkIYnzvV3VQmthqdhjRwa1y/s5472/P1060175.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVeESk86y1fnm4pz685fAHvfNweccMe1rgJKd53WpmApeKoN_BM6vaVOzFqktpzmFRuemhn39OGH3wtYpoXtodFtmGS_z-eRBp0jBQgYfy9ZDhXlC4CBuUdMv2mDU1VoZZwk5m8vqr4TsRfNZBq6lcZQ83sJSLvcsm6l24obkIYnzvV3VQmthqdhjRwa1y/w400-h266/P1060175.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://invi.tt/1ykAwY0T" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">BONUS: Here's a link to get 10% off when you order Marti's tools direct from her website!!</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-large;">THIS WEEK'S ACTION STEPS:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> 1. Organize the fabric combinations for two or three blocks -- you might want to make at least one of them for a "practice block" especially if you haven't already tried using my Set-In Piecing Simplified technique. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Cut the pieces for two or three blocks (including background diamonds) following today's blogpost and your pattern. Don't cut too far ahead for now. I want you to be sure you enjoy piecing this block before you commit to a king size quilt!?! If you hate it, two or three blocks could become a tablerunner or a stack of potholders -- (-;</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Get that UFO organized that you'll be using for "leaders and enders -- maybe set it up on a tray or in a box lid (you do use box lids, don't you?) to make it easy to access without getting any of it mixed into the Dresden Star block pieces.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Finally, if you have questions -- put them in the comments below!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll be back to start the piecing process next week, Wednesday, July 5!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-66640257562900441792023-06-21T12:48:00.003-07:002023-06-21T12:48:40.820-07:00Dresden Stars -- a Tutorial Series<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> In 2015, another shop owner showed me a vintage quilt with a unique six-pointed star block I had never seen. I took pictures and set out to discover the name and source of the block. But alas, I could not find anything. I was mid-stream in my obsession with six-pointed stars and "needed" to piece that block so I figured it out from scratch. It was so much easier to piece than I expect that I wrote my pattern, Dresden Stars to share what I figured out with others.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3TTS3uEIvuGlhetMEtcS6ElYqwfOU1NOL_Kiylg3g1WnwL5sx2SliG8nxLbXCCSKEi5sxRgZVQmu0LmNZVkbSdyM3CiMk6sAHS66sg4MvFXboyP7M-wuopyjxIdjr0h7PjB_ABkmW_KZ2LEVNdbrI7zk_TSnkoZWBShiXiAIbR25cF2MUAsocN6M-pnU/s3519/P1060098%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3519" data-original-width="3206" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc3TTS3uEIvuGlhetMEtcS6ElYqwfOU1NOL_Kiylg3g1WnwL5sx2SliG8nxLbXCCSKEi5sxRgZVQmu0LmNZVkbSdyM3CiMk6sAHS66sg4MvFXboyP7M-wuopyjxIdjr0h7PjB_ABkmW_KZ2LEVNdbrI7zk_TSnkoZWBShiXiAIbR25cF2MUAsocN6M-pnU/w584-h640/P1060098%20(2).JPG" width="584" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fast forward to the pandemic (why does that sound so wrong?) when I started selling my patterns as PDF's on Etsy. Every time I sell a copy of Dresden Stars, I message the buyer thanking them and saying, "I'm going to do a series of tutorials on my blog for this pattern" </span><span style="font-size: large;">. . . soon!?! </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Well, "soon" has finally arrived and today is the first of what I expect will be a five posts as I construct a new version.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you will sew along with me, so I'll space the posts to make that easier. Even if you aren't interested in sewing along right now, I hope you'll get ideas from the posts and perhaps try piecing just one block to get a feel for it. It's also a good introduction to my "set-in piecing simplified" technique!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The pattern is written for a small lap/crib size quilt but I'm going to make a large lap size this time so this will also serve as supplementary instructions for the pattern on how to enlarge the quilt size. The instructions are written for machine piecing with templates from Marti Michell, but a template sheet is also included for those who prefer to hand-piece.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you don't have the pattern, <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/609244803/dresden-stars-quilt-pattern?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=Dresden+Stars+quilt+pattern&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">it's available HERE in my Etsy Shop for $8 US</a>. You might also like to invest in my Set-In Piecing Simplified teaching guide ($10 US) as a companion.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The templates I use are <a href="https://frommarti.com/products/template-set-h-large-hexagons?_pos=5&_sid=5ed0aebf3&_ss=r" target="_blank">Marti Michell Set H</a> plus the <a href="https://frommarti.com/products/kite-and-crown-2-inch?_pos=20&_sid=5ed0aebf3&_ss=r" target="_blank">2" Kite and Crown Set</a>. Both are available directly from her website -- click on the name of each above to go straight to the shop. At the end of the series, I'll review some other patterns that can be pieced with these sets to help you maximize your investment.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXsTO4YdBWCEEpMJhu0-137j4geHBxgI0dC-R4BGY1Yh9jRFa2nrkUnhuwW5XvA6rOMBotvfNTAMDPlK4MdhnExOKfLAki3m5LmowIRhklSnxxpJpMKxrgQHhhXQvmfxaPJyctw2HApsV3pt2WTLqo4xkoltzuvcaIf5Tfpcpkg7b4CR4vvbq-nvRzp4z/s4750/P1060117%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3218" data-original-width="4750" height="434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOXsTO4YdBWCEEpMJhu0-137j4geHBxgI0dC-R4BGY1Yh9jRFa2nrkUnhuwW5XvA6rOMBotvfNTAMDPlK4MdhnExOKfLAki3m5LmowIRhklSnxxpJpMKxrgQHhhXQvmfxaPJyctw2HApsV3pt2WTLqo4xkoltzuvcaIf5Tfpcpkg7b4CR4vvbq-nvRzp4z/w640-h434/P1060117%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, I'll share my thoughts on fabric requirements. Let me begin by saying I hope you'll use some stash for this project!! Nothing gives me as much satisfaction as using some of my stash!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be using a layer cake but you could also use a jelly roll -- both will give you enough variety of prints and quantity of fabric to piece a large lap size quilt top. And sometimes it's nice to not have to make any fabric choices -- just grab and sew! </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9puqbci1DRebbzLAdNaUOaBcnqLl5jrzrO6SAzdC-nWWc2aythLKHnNumyVmOCZwhbbuZKXjJf-3yHDfu0Bf4emUiMJmRflRSwlPaDQ8QURg3u1K0P_nf_PLf26bRdvuuFUCPCCgkqZPa5xJxy0Edf2vFT0-wnBCWfgrZ84jUMqeK9PgRa8HuEGqHlzN/s4380/P1060120%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3372" data-original-width="4380" height="308" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEib9puqbci1DRebbzLAdNaUOaBcnqLl5jrzrO6SAzdC-nWWc2aythLKHnNumyVmOCZwhbbuZKXjJf-3yHDfu0Bf4emUiMJmRflRSwlPaDQ8QURg3u1K0P_nf_PLf26bRdvuuFUCPCCgkqZPa5xJxy0Edf2vFT0-wnBCWfgrZ84jUMqeK9PgRa8HuEGqHlzN/w400-h308/P1060120%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /> If you chose to work with a fabric line assortment, take some time this week to rough draft some color combos. I begin by eliminating pieces/strips that don't contrast clearly with the background fabric chosen. The easiest way to do that is lay the prints on the background fabric, squint at them and if you can't clearly see a line of demarcation between the two fabrics, set it aside.</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here you see the squares I've set aside with light backgrounds since I'm using a light Grunge for my background. I expect to be able to use these prints for the setting triangles in the final quilt so they won't go to waste. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmu4D0KyCl27rlQNCrF_fH0yeuN6nXLjfIkLmxZ28gmR0BF2_qDAQcss7Mm8x7MK6vIQVU6zjgN6y5P4Wy2Tfm-1bAlDhSTbC5_pm3LgPaG0DXMygikdfM7pzB9Cmjf9evZW7BKeVtNWbUqa-qNyf_-SM5xmmD7tNFr9735t3aYqi1-0yKioyL7ScTcYGd/s4215/P1060105%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3151" data-original-width="4215" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmu4D0KyCl27rlQNCrF_fH0yeuN6nXLjfIkLmxZ28gmR0BF2_qDAQcss7Mm8x7MK6vIQVU6zjgN6y5P4Wy2Tfm-1bAlDhSTbC5_pm3LgPaG0DXMygikdfM7pzB9Cmjf9evZW7BKeVtNWbUqa-qNyf_-SM5xmmD7tNFr9735t3aYqi1-0yKioyL7ScTcYGd/w400-h299/P1060105%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once the elimination step is done, I match up contrasting pairs of squares or strips. Hanging them on a design wall or laying them out on a table and letting them rest for a day helps me decide if I like my choices. Here are some combos I'm auditioning.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbzxI_PHjqPqSZax7S7aOB9OzS-7sUlqNzeUd6Vquw-1tShPYUiXzv-KX7dP3WWgPGnWWkjNffpMuiE7chWhNkjdYy_eO_0rZa97Nj14UKK9gHbBJG9e6nLwTrWtxkTaeCNRs006x6nE7G9xtll8mZWjT_ryOkzdiwR06DwCzlcXpMBUGJfXr1h1cWu3s/s1852/P1060104%20(4).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="1534" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbzxI_PHjqPqSZax7S7aOB9OzS-7sUlqNzeUd6Vquw-1tShPYUiXzv-KX7dP3WWgPGnWWkjNffpMuiE7chWhNkjdYy_eO_0rZa97Nj14UKK9gHbBJG9e6nLwTrWtxkTaeCNRs006x6nE7G9xtll8mZWjT_ryOkzdiwR06DwCzlcXpMBUGJfXr1h1cWu3s/w331-h400/P1060104%20(4).JPG" width="331" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Prints that I don't use in the combinations are set aside for the "tips" of the diamonds. I decide on the "tip" fabric when I'm cutting my pieces. Seven combinations are needed for the pattern size and I'll need thirteen combinations for the large lap size I'm piecing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qe7Bi2NIByIFqU6iYD8XEa_-unjcM1t0ix_qU7zXkr36DVwgDqa46NxugL49Nq3BrXBNG_wD0AYXWshBkbkME2iiOCxP419pRsut5ILk6x_u6ok0UYJsXIZp3qyDE7r6tRB4ZytXA2Yc-CanJrTyZGJBEwxMc5Edjq6EDaDwQG-WEtppXKugWhE_TmvK/s3346/P1060116%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2951" data-original-width="3346" height="353" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4qe7Bi2NIByIFqU6iYD8XEa_-unjcM1t0ix_qU7zXkr36DVwgDqa46NxugL49Nq3BrXBNG_wD0AYXWshBkbkME2iiOCxP419pRsut5ILk6x_u6ok0UYJsXIZp3qyDE7r6tRB4ZytXA2Yc-CanJrTyZGJBEwxMc5Edjq6EDaDwQG-WEtppXKugWhE_TmvK/w400-h353/P1060116%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When I work from my "big" stash, I love sorting through it and making combinations of prints that I like. A color or style theme is a helpful way to start this process. 30's reproduction prints would be fun or a stack of batiks. If you've never tried a "triad" color scheme, that would be fun! Triad color schemes are popular with designers and understanding that makes it easy to pull interesting color combinations from my stash. A quilt I finished recently is lavender, soft orange, and yellow green -- a triad created by selecting three colors evenly spaced around a color wheel.</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blog.closetomyheart.com/2018/04/17/color-theory-triadic-color-combinations/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a blogpost I found that explains this concept with good illustrations.</span></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I could start in my scrap stash of 2 1/2" strips with no trouble!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWLbrisZEbaHUpa0o2hA1bpTORyZcGMX6j9gPr3Abb1LjT-zAc7-BmvCOkIzpNcBgX5QS1XCFTsy2sJrKJ4elFbDnOO27MckpAA5jtytV1zsHKhvWj22SKYLwDw_b1oXQiTXoGKv8U376hYFSthPpupmTMpZdAfNmkz1nPzLAv8rt_xPzdPgS88u-dLBE/s5199/P1060119%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3411" data-original-width="5199" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixWLbrisZEbaHUpa0o2hA1bpTORyZcGMX6j9gPr3Abb1LjT-zAc7-BmvCOkIzpNcBgX5QS1XCFTsy2sJrKJ4elFbDnOO27MckpAA5jtytV1zsHKhvWj22SKYLwDw_b1oXQiTXoGKv8U376hYFSthPpupmTMpZdAfNmkz1nPzLAv8rt_xPzdPgS88u-dLBE/w400-h263/P1060119%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><u>So here are some action steps for this week:</u></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">1. Find your copy of the pattern (is it in the "download" folder on your computer?) or purchase a copy from my Etsy shop.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. Check to see if you have either of Marti's template sets -- if not, see if your local shop stocks them or is willing to special order them or order them direct from Marti (use links above). I'll also explain how to make "templates" from the pattern next week if you don't want to invest in Marti's templates.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. Find the fabric you want to use! Either a layer cake; or a jelly roll; or do some stash busting. I use almost two full 2 1/2" strips for each star plus 12" of a strip for the contrasting points. Background fabric required for a large lap is 1 yard. If you are stashing busting the fabric or working with a jelly roll, you'll also need a 1/2 yard for the setting triangles -- you can chose that once the quilt top is underway when it will be easier to make decisions, too. My scrappy border on the original quilt was made from layer cake leftovers but I won't be able to do that with this larger version. I'm going to have to get creative about fabric selection since it's an older layer cake and I suspect yardage of any of the prints is long gone . . . but that's okay -- a challenge is good!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. Find a UFO in your stash to use as "sew-offs", leaders & enders, whatever you call them. I use lots of them when machine piecing set-in seams and it's been a great way to finish long-stalled projects that I've grown tired of piecing! I'll be returning to my version of this cover quilt -- I've only pieced 6 out of the 35 blocks needed for a lap size quilt.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9MNniHZ0iJhqfT-IsdKv_lE-74DqMdjZChEoJo8i1mw7wxa5UsvOmD8a6pHcFSfH1KXuCUVI8NAoaoJxFAfp4LYA8ank6j76-dV6rNQDJt9stFzcz-CScXGBssKKnodktgrRgFq1oFSh0NatqrPRyqKhsKft7XEqE6183AX5IbpqmLOfbJmYkqLWn5VJk/s4953/P1060118%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="font-size: large; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="4953" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9MNniHZ0iJhqfT-IsdKv_lE-74DqMdjZChEoJo8i1mw7wxa5UsvOmD8a6pHcFSfH1KXuCUVI8NAoaoJxFAfp4LYA8ank6j76-dV6rNQDJt9stFzcz-CScXGBssKKnodktgrRgFq1oFSh0NatqrPRyqKhsKft7XEqE6183AX5IbpqmLOfbJmYkqLWn5VJk/s320/P1060118%20(2).JPG" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: medium;">5. Finally, ask me questions!! Leave them in the comments and I'll answer them so everyone can read them. Remember what our teachers told us, there is no such thing as a dumb question!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'll be back next Wednesday, June 28 to get started!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-48792901062470244112023-06-15T07:24:00.005-07:002023-06-15T07:24:38.855-07:00A Whirly Weeds Setting<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I said in my last post, I had a vision for a setting the Whirly Weeds blocks!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The trick was to get it out of my head and assembled.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So here's an overview of my process.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidHo0lqXxqyB1gSiGbRrc9dlg9bg1PkjCD_WRLlyEAp9Q_otSlgZdN-1U2oRtL8Wr7NDh7E0k6pRSwCQ5K3_sFx03K5xLbYPdaOyZWLsqMtpSs8w1O1mRTyAg_dEZMkck0BpNPcGPQazOslrkWPof-pN3T5NZ5177SM1y3epHHUy_-6FCDh0ax0l0lmw/s3589/P1060075%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3045" data-original-width="3589" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidHo0lqXxqyB1gSiGbRrc9dlg9bg1PkjCD_WRLlyEAp9Q_otSlgZdN-1U2oRtL8Wr7NDh7E0k6pRSwCQ5K3_sFx03K5xLbYPdaOyZWLsqMtpSs8w1O1mRTyAg_dEZMkck0BpNPcGPQazOslrkWPof-pN3T5NZ5177SM1y3epHHUy_-6FCDh0ax0l0lmw/w640-h542/P1060075%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Being such a subtle assortment of prints, the photographs look a bit boring -- nothing to be done!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My goal was to stagger the blocks to look like random leaf rosettes as they might be growing in an open field. Therefore, the first step was to stagger them around the design wall and step back for a day to let the arrangement "steep". In the end, I only made minor adjustments to my original arrangement.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Then it was time to dive in and spend a long afternoon focused on assembly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This picture is the first audition stage of sashing to figure out how to maintain the staggered layout.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The vertical rows are staggered up and down and horizontally, the blocks are staggered left and right within the vertical rows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUXAo0aHNcGmVHmZLfVFXXWQ5zdKCTPrOvjpIgrnTROxYN6sPmA8iGMo7eEXqbwRYGeFxL0F2DDmtdsoIRpP_YIU-3b9VpuxzMLUvsZF90KngrPLp06vzd1yoGEAXxa79LC76EkpnuUlPoZxaqPLqqd7j3m62tvESLNdbSSkfvLy7ys1cKEsM8h568w/s5472/P1060091.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPUXAo0aHNcGmVHmZLfVFXXWQ5zdKCTPrOvjpIgrnTROxYN6sPmA8iGMo7eEXqbwRYGeFxL0F2DDmtdsoIRpP_YIU-3b9VpuxzMLUvsZF90KngrPLp06vzd1yoGEAXxa79LC76EkpnuUlPoZxaqPLqqd7j3m62tvESLNdbSSkfvLy7ys1cKEsM8h568w/w640-h426/P1060091.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I started by attached the labels to the lower edge of each block. I straighten the lower side of the block, added a strip to one end of the label and stitched it to the block.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqW4BfPG-UwDl-Uyh-ouPGM3qMq0YQhHdpEHfjMUaes-Wj0UefY32DH1Qzx-BQRSfbYTuFqKmw9ifrjj9lZpiXWmGasldNsm0lt_jTYEQUVpfZvBDWyuz_H73lJS8t1nF8IAmX9VDhZ1NVC4oY4qVTcV_HF34OsdF-IoX9Km6pc3rzfSvSiQwyUcOVig/s5472/P1060092.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqW4BfPG-UwDl-Uyh-ouPGM3qMq0YQhHdpEHfjMUaes-Wj0UefY32DH1Qzx-BQRSfbYTuFqKmw9ifrjj9lZpiXWmGasldNsm0lt_jTYEQUVpfZvBDWyuz_H73lJS8t1nF8IAmX9VDhZ1NVC4oY4qVTcV_HF34OsdF-IoX9Km6pc3rzfSvSiQwyUcOVig/w640-h426/P1060092.JPG" width="640" /></a>Once that was finished, I added sashing strips to two sides of each block. First, I straightened each edges and then added a 3" cut strip. They were wider than needed but it allowed for trimming as I set the blocks together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51qAZjpgCph1CTl8haJb6GZ6hcDiJzSqqAcAnDFx7qmgVokhrrLNyMw53ZXYYpFWcaK1y1_G7an1UjrvmAqS0bSPKXdkBebVkwIWjKcizPq_MxCPpdT_3vpVGB6wh420BfS0MvhXyldl8r4AzG25Mo05tKkfZ7nqLF8Wupsn0Tt16FN3igoRU8pBuNw/s5472/P1060094.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51qAZjpgCph1CTl8haJb6GZ6hcDiJzSqqAcAnDFx7qmgVokhrrLNyMw53ZXYYpFWcaK1y1_G7an1UjrvmAqS0bSPKXdkBebVkwIWjKcizPq_MxCPpdT_3vpVGB6wh420BfS0MvhXyldl8r4AzG25Mo05tKkfZ7nqLF8Wupsn0Tt16FN3igoRU8pBuNw/w640-h426/P1060094.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You can see the block doesn't look perfectly square and the blocks were about the same size but not exactly. That inconsistent sizing allowed me to maintain the staggered layout.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwX6zOBV2eyQSAxT1cQGPt6DvP0wIPOUw9SEUzpZHXfAO9EfDZ87WkE7sn_Qoh6Sg0XM2en7AgUGu_7VRUMkE3gIYXFuuWgUteKrRmAlT4CdT0msEOV3NFpz3KR3_Kyqoanrp53H6Xlz2ImZ9CSnWz1jenURMO2hKsqI76XoFAC5MfKRZus9_GdLj2w/s5472/P1060093.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBwX6zOBV2eyQSAxT1cQGPt6DvP0wIPOUw9SEUzpZHXfAO9EfDZ87WkE7sn_Qoh6Sg0XM2en7AgUGu_7VRUMkE3gIYXFuuWgUteKrRmAlT4CdT0msEOV3NFpz3KR3_Kyqoanrp53H6Xlz2ImZ9CSnWz1jenURMO2hKsqI76XoFAC5MfKRZus9_GdLj2w/w640-h426/P1060093.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Below are the blocks back on the design wall with the sashing added -- notice that the positions of the sashing aren't the same. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The top row alternates across left/bottom and left/top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The row below is right/bottom and right/top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This maintained the staggered setting.</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhpQI1dwqbKER1BytJNiqpaYdSmejd_A_JYbQNCxesf2GRDMkkpDD6z42t_v6VfyVfUV2_QpP9W_wGmGpnv_fSPvB0NJje5DD_9LpaM-CftBrzao6Fq52z8QOLyUdpMwAn7O6qmy33a2JCVBN4WjWzfW5wHnkb5Mp76k2KuoMTraNCOmLS1zNE8CAtQ/s4984/P1060097%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3626" data-original-width="4984" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyhpQI1dwqbKER1BytJNiqpaYdSmejd_A_JYbQNCxesf2GRDMkkpDD6z42t_v6VfyVfUV2_QpP9W_wGmGpnv_fSPvB0NJje5DD_9LpaM-CftBrzao6Fq52z8QOLyUdpMwAn7O6qmy33a2JCVBN4WjWzfW5wHnkb5Mp76k2KuoMTraNCOmLS1zNE8CAtQ/w640-h466/P1060097%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I assembled the rows vertically -- trimming and straightening the blocks as I went -- not much measuring. As long as the width of the three blocks in a row was constant, it was good. Once the four vertical rows were assembled, I compared the length of the rows, trimmed a bit of the top and/or bottom of the rows until they were all the same length as the shortest row. (A judge would have a field day with "it doesn't match properly" remarks at this stage.) It's hard to see but the blocks don't intersect as is typical.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hB5fKvb8faEH97wj8n4OlDSfG7pT_n6MOAGDiKJ-GU65M3FsJWuO9Z7ZGo4gGEHN_sNlJnGleTqtnxitZejn3JCANeowQg72CwLT8uFW6KmIBJeP8Z4PqUbtXyBVXFYKJc_svN2Io41yjS2AkYPVYR61qvmx3DjN13HHs4WUoqanvDwrQbysIwHR7Q/s2725/IMG_20230604_152603586.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2304" data-original-width="2725" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2hB5fKvb8faEH97wj8n4OlDSfG7pT_n6MOAGDiKJ-GU65M3FsJWuO9Z7ZGo4gGEHN_sNlJnGleTqtnxitZejn3JCANeowQg72CwLT8uFW6KmIBJeP8Z4PqUbtXyBVXFYKJc_svN2Io41yjS2AkYPVYR61qvmx3DjN13HHs4WUoqanvDwrQbysIwHR7Q/w640-h542/IMG_20230604_152603586.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The final step was to add a 3" border of the sashing fabrics -- cut in random lengths all the way around the quilt top. It's hard to see but that's the point -- the block background, sashing, and borders are meant to meld into a muted background. </span></blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyisZ2-r4qW31f6oV1p2FI4HUOkhwFm_YwxtyOZQo1kgY3022Ln3EftQx4yPNX_ac5j584p4_kOrxiqClyHxAAbNB3N8EwSehzftFgeNz2co1PA5c0nBWj8i__hlJTXrguSHUOD3RhJQT1Npre45PdQwmw7miYcJBYwXP5BI8wiHYczT2jWagxHYKkA/s2749/IMG_20230607_174344773.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="2749" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAyisZ2-r4qW31f6oV1p2FI4HUOkhwFm_YwxtyOZQo1kgY3022Ln3EftQx4yPNX_ac5j584p4_kOrxiqClyHxAAbNB3N8EwSehzftFgeNz2co1PA5c0nBWj8i__hlJTXrguSHUOD3RhJQT1Npre45PdQwmw7miYcJBYwXP5BI8wiHYczT2jWagxHYKkA/w640-h544/IMG_20230607_174344773.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm happy with the result -- the sashing color sets off the weeds nicely. At this point, my plan is to bind the finished quilt with scrappy greens used in the weeds. One thing I will say, I don't think I could have figured out the setting strategy on paper -- it needed to be done on the design board and I needed to audition my way through ideas. It's a departure from Pamala's (the designer) setting idea but I don't think she minds!?!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I didn't mention in the post about making the labels that I printed the names of the native North American plants in green and the non-natives in red. Turns out it was 50/50 natives vs. non-natives. I think that's a true commentary on the state of "wild" habitats today -- only half the plants are native and that is triggering insect and bird declines continent wide. Probably, it's a world-wide problem</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">This summer, I'm working to remove non-native plants from my garden and bringing in as many native plants as will fit.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Want to know more -- <a href="https://map.homegrownnationalpark.org/?gad=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwyqWkBhBMEiwAp2yUFvVywOl2X74sM191FhWbHWYJWKu28GprUi-qkqcFPbcoCbQRSNPw7hoCzhQQAvD_BwE" target="_blank">check out The Homegrown National Park</a>!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's a crazy dream that is catching on because you and I can "do something" positive!!</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Next week, if I get all my ducks in a row, I'm going to begin a series of weekly blogposts as I make a new version of <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/609244803/dresden-stars-quilt-pattern?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=Dresden+Stars+quilt+pattern&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">my pattern, Dresden Stars.</a> I know many of you have bought the pattern from my Etsy shop or when you've seen me at a show but I haven't seen too many folks piece it. I'll be machine-piecing it and you can work along with me or book mark the series for a future make. The pattern is written for a crib/lap size but I'll be making a large lap/twin. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevadI1qEfVKGC-Pb3DJq0HzDM1ICKXv4NxpmearmPNQWgtarOhC6Ci1EXD5DBiQ1xXgirGROyIVjXHj0GkG1JfWu1IfrVaKGvhZZblTCKaxFyfuA8x71r7PmYZ_4JXZoF06c8pGXN4cxKE7k60cOmR9JBo1u-Hgg7tx-oh3SKujAZQdjborySkWpWDg/s3519/P1060098%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3519" data-original-width="3206" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjevadI1qEfVKGC-Pb3DJq0HzDM1ICKXv4NxpmearmPNQWgtarOhC6Ci1EXD5DBiQ1xXgirGROyIVjXHj0GkG1JfWu1IfrVaKGvhZZblTCKaxFyfuA8x71r7PmYZ_4JXZoF06c8pGXN4cxKE7k60cOmR9JBo1u-Hgg7tx-oh3SKujAZQdjborySkWpWDg/w365-h400/P1060098%20(2).JPG" width="365" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I'll start next week, June 21, with the supplies needed - so make a note and if you have the pattern, dig it out and get ready with me!</div></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mary </div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p></div>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-75101159332787234122023-05-30T17:42:00.003-07:002023-06-15T07:24:54.248-07:00Self-Printed Quilt Labels<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here's a quick tutorial for printing quilt labels with an ink jet printer at home with regular fabric. I fall back on this approach when I don't have any commercial printer ready fabric or when I want to use quilt fabric. I think I learned how to do this from Caryl Bryer Fallert many years ago in a fabric printing workshop she taught for my shop.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's simple but there are a few tricks for success.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This weekend, I finished the twelfth block for my version of Pamala Jo Designs Whirly Weeds 2023 Sewalong and I have a vision for a wallhanging but I want to label all the plants featured on the blocks.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hFsrauilMmh4Zfbs08cIe0Xz75vUWz_2tUp3T0lgSsBfBLm9q_ftMgLM3-4SK7LNQZt76GuhrrjZhC76R05kpBbjOD51Pmmalsm3dnaKsCeYzPhMvrDKzrjKmG36dpLvl6m_zB3NiEr5Rt-JG0TaVMc8BaAk_dBm2qNsvNw3MgFIscdY-f8Gs9TfNA/s3589/P1060075%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3045" data-original-width="3589" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2hFsrauilMmh4Zfbs08cIe0Xz75vUWz_2tUp3T0lgSsBfBLm9q_ftMgLM3-4SK7LNQZt76GuhrrjZhC76R05kpBbjOD51Pmmalsm3dnaKsCeYzPhMvrDKzrjKmG36dpLvl6m_zB3NiEr5Rt-JG0TaVMc8BaAk_dBm2qNsvNw3MgFIscdY-f8Gs9TfNA/w640-h542/P1060075%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I want them to be printed legibly on fabric that blends with the background prints and the easiest way to do that is create a Word document that I can print directly onto fabric. I love having all those fonts to choose from and I can play around with the font size!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As you'll see, you can play around with ink color, too!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> The document is the easy part! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">To prepare the fabric, I use spray starch or Best Press to stabilize it - this helps keep it flat in the printer and helps keep the printer ink from bleeding out. Then iron <u>two layers</u> of freezer paper to the back side of the fabric using a warm iron.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcqntSByJ6ygkTIeNgo8PZdcsnlDqbKIMKtrE8Autq9ClMRd3NTtsd-TqxA1tUbFKaS7egm6sBG8faObuFpz8Z5dEuDJhzNn93PGh1EhzEOWiCtEmdZsHtepVXH-y5dls1KZ_oDBIY_ADyqiBja8hHNkRf9MGZKaDggSlMkmzztZw5Rh1CAAIQCm5HA/s5472/P1060066.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWcqntSByJ6ygkTIeNgo8PZdcsnlDqbKIMKtrE8Autq9ClMRd3NTtsd-TqxA1tUbFKaS7egm6sBG8faObuFpz8Z5dEuDJhzNn93PGh1EhzEOWiCtEmdZsHtepVXH-y5dls1KZ_oDBIY_ADyqiBja8hHNkRf9MGZKaDggSlMkmzztZw5Rh1CAAIQCm5HA/w400-h266/P1060066.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you've never used freezer paper as a quilting tool, the shiny waxy side will fuse to fabric temporarily with an iron set on warm (too hot doesn't work). There are lots of YouTube videos on using freezer paper for applique if you google it. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxxsYbk177TiYvLMNDayf8keNlk6UAXSZzbfBh7ePjcugaLAuRZwl8j9QZCHerYrDw-mPxkuyG7a1SKbiqwmd_OG7JxDaa1sfT4-olXt9ifS3L_dn1c6WTtckdjY9eEqk6HnTYEKRzllrjNL86VcIsjC_4HuRf7XaQFCNMq0otUuTGUJ07Qa0dqQCEg/s5472/P1060065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLxxsYbk177TiYvLMNDayf8keNlk6UAXSZzbfBh7ePjcugaLAuRZwl8j9QZCHerYrDw-mPxkuyG7a1SKbiqwmd_OG7JxDaa1sfT4-olXt9ifS3L_dn1c6WTtckdjY9eEqk6HnTYEKRzllrjNL86VcIsjC_4HuRf7XaQFCNMq0otUuTGUJ07Qa0dqQCEg/w400-h266/P1060065.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"> Each piece was about 9" by 11 1/2" and after fusing the paper in place, I trimmed the fabric/freezer paper layered pieces to a perfect 8 1/2" by 11", the size of a standard sheet of paper.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I do a test print on paper to evaluate the size and spacing of my text.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecB84nZowQ1D5dMwIUf39jXAjB7V9dXkJhn3GmuQI73FdK22UWs3Tgrm_LXe1SFUNGt3MRjXYyAvCnyVqQQeGH8tnzcCof_Is7PeWhnpawBIu_w78vbB8UicjL5mpsl-A9q4Ix3v7qsdGik6zBCmr9jx1-DlmnF4fILVWXUa-4fJHjDTNm-A5QZRF1Q/s4513/P1060068%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3086" data-original-width="4513" height="438" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhecB84nZowQ1D5dMwIUf39jXAjB7V9dXkJhn3GmuQI73FdK22UWs3Tgrm_LXe1SFUNGt3MRjXYyAvCnyVqQQeGH8tnzcCof_Is7PeWhnpawBIu_w78vbB8UicjL5mpsl-A9q4Ix3v7qsdGik6zBCmr9jx1-DlmnF4fILVWXUa-4fJHjDTNm-A5QZRF1Q/w640-h438/P1060068%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once I'm happy with the test print, I load the freezer backed fabric into my printer. I had some trouble getting the printer to recognize the fabric as a sheet of paper and so went into "properties" and changed the paper setting to "thick paper".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy666IvoXnVlCbEoc5i9OVmcBDlUC_VBM5mcRhLXMPVK9RnEwforLm7_cyTRyqbUmtezAO9vicM8j8cBjUtZo_FUXw-nI6vmqPWydAtFCKtIzpzy0tmiH-WHGkvU8_PwU5IR2CYjZzFOJI6s9mrslX9A1o-o0ZXMB6ToYwjgk5clzMjyq_r5rm3kvWA/s5472/P1060069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyy666IvoXnVlCbEoc5i9OVmcBDlUC_VBM5mcRhLXMPVK9RnEwforLm7_cyTRyqbUmtezAO9vicM8j8cBjUtZo_FUXw-nI6vmqPWydAtFCKtIzpzy0tmiH-WHGkvU8_PwU5IR2CYjZzFOJI6s9mrslX9A1o-o0ZXMB6ToYwjgk5clzMjyq_r5rm3kvWA/w640-h426/P1060069.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My first attempt was a "fail" because I only used one piece of freezer paper --<u> must use two layers of paper</u> and be sure to have a good bond between the fabric and the paper.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Arghhhh!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggN5hRYDeITG0MRw_Qf8_E-hhr_4pClheNZ-4hD-dZD51scGQ4PXVyOGEMQsDZIsqNxoU84td5XDV4vyIT2AV2MenMkhy50ndM0onbbvsGxJ5VRC50SOqjhFWH10jNs_qZo-YUOTWkXN4BWz7DXUiWIx4JFyNWdTXAn4CEoefEbcLQuZNq7nk2kpccNw/s4896/P1060070%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3597" data-original-width="4896" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggN5hRYDeITG0MRw_Qf8_E-hhr_4pClheNZ-4hD-dZD51scGQ4PXVyOGEMQsDZIsqNxoU84td5XDV4vyIT2AV2MenMkhy50ndM0onbbvsGxJ5VRC50SOqjhFWH10jNs_qZo-YUOTWkXN4BWz7DXUiWIx4JFyNWdTXAn4CEoefEbcLQuZNq7nk2kpccNw/w640-h470/P1060070%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once I added a second layer of freezer paper and changed the paper setting to "thick", it took less than 5 minutes to print out the three pages for my plant labels.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After letting the sheets set for a bit, I peel off the freezer paper and heat set the printing a couple times with my iron on the cotton setting.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLyK2bQv4ZnVHqCaVd6nA-I0nCsfkrl-ftgbUEWZFyu6cu1eSs9kPguQxcr95ft0e3UHu2iNYJ8s5wwX7GjsXQ-58hYcweHyeliT5qk1E_26B-uHYxm005BAGlkaowK_M1vcUYZR8ZZmaCN61WAEaZGdaZGQfT1dsrEUFyxL2TQXVx-fclJ7wr8kX8Q/s4114/P1060072%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4114" height="568" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGLyK2bQv4ZnVHqCaVd6nA-I0nCsfkrl-ftgbUEWZFyu6cu1eSs9kPguQxcr95ft0e3UHu2iNYJ8s5wwX7GjsXQ-58hYcweHyeliT5qk1E_26B-uHYxm005BAGlkaowK_M1vcUYZR8ZZmaCN61WAEaZGdaZGQfT1dsrEUFyxL2TQXVx-fclJ7wr8kX8Q/w640-h568/P1060072%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I did use the bottom half of the messed up piece to make a label for my recently finished Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden quilt.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Lemons into lemonade!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjNV4OSCAhtQI6e3BQ_Ow1w39bP7qUuOQqMFNc_Pv22gDFHsBypKhs1-MHpk40KPK5wLyGxN_40Npr_8nJVbst33hbtzq3fvqqVhKybZpDMSAhgEU0CASvDYL2mjUhXDoiu0dqIz_qPKbUqh9M9B6CZmrEQHialeik88mwKT7-61W8zgoZ3bjGLtA8g/s5472/P1060073.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcjNV4OSCAhtQI6e3BQ_Ow1w39bP7qUuOQqMFNc_Pv22gDFHsBypKhs1-MHpk40KPK5wLyGxN_40Npr_8nJVbst33hbtzq3fvqqVhKybZpDMSAhgEU0CASvDYL2mjUhXDoiu0dqIz_qPKbUqh9M9B6CZmrEQHialeik88mwKT7-61W8zgoZ3bjGLtA8g/w640-h426/P1060073.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I framed the quilt label with 1 1/2" wide strips of fabric from the quilt, pressed the raw edges under and appliqued it to the back of my finished quilt!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So efficient!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vlokTDkmJEFWmom0O4vTSMJOqc3oyWkXVowYKFKWn5JNU-xI6NMu1OYOzJFD83OI_1LnVxh6i1dwJvcG6l5ck6PPz8MRM14Y6lCaTr0rZZKSpoR09XBao14K7MiKGkNedyhPm0cDCO-eT1YFGhXSWa0f8CM5QGbvG-M1zhy1zjKcvF7nhOCjeaunpw/s4160/IMG_20230529_164709646_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_vlokTDkmJEFWmom0O4vTSMJOqc3oyWkXVowYKFKWn5JNU-xI6NMu1OYOzJFD83OI_1LnVxh6i1dwJvcG6l5ck6PPz8MRM14Y6lCaTr0rZZKSpoR09XBao14K7MiKGkNedyhPm0cDCO-eT1YFGhXSWa0f8CM5QGbvG-M1zhy1zjKcvF7nhOCjeaunpw/w360-h640/IMG_20230529_164709646_HDR.jpg" width="360" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">More about those plant labels in a future post!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let me know if you try this and how it works for you!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-63391000021490355212023-05-23T12:34:00.000-07:002023-05-23T12:34:10.781-07:00May is all about BIRDS<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And native wildflowers, too. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you didn't already know, I've been a bit of a nature nerd since grade school -- love birding, seeking out new native plants, learning about insects. That makes May a busy month for me because everything outside is waking up for the summer months. So much to see and do!?!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For example, look at this little orchid -- just 6" tall?? It's a showy orchis -- I've read about them, but just saw my first one this past weekend!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWg9KRPl0JuXrCoAxhPF15tZvu7gwP3fY_efBsbaGRYdmEvJfHpCmuYlt1WVldTRneyK9ZR0KNlFe-dYoL2ogQHIKiS3zcxx0RYOkRNbxCHr8VHgmhVPmJhGzeDiK_aqA0MR8Bmsk-KNu_fY1oWt6nZY3Wx0TkVMLx17bUVfPK5No_RNKE8IjYRyAnWg/s2970/IMG_20230520_121010380_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="2970" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWg9KRPl0JuXrCoAxhPF15tZvu7gwP3fY_efBsbaGRYdmEvJfHpCmuYlt1WVldTRneyK9ZR0KNlFe-dYoL2ogQHIKiS3zcxx0RYOkRNbxCHr8VHgmhVPmJhGzeDiK_aqA0MR8Bmsk-KNu_fY1oWt6nZY3Wx0TkVMLx17bUVfPK5No_RNKE8IjYRyAnWg/w400-h315/IMG_20230520_121010380_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've been stitching along steadily all month but can't settle at my computer long enough to write a blogpost and I'm not sure I have anything to share except to brag a bit about stitching accomplishments?!?</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I've stayed caught up with stitching the <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pamalamajodesigns/" target="_blank">Whirly Weeds blocks from Pamalama Jo Designs</a> -- major accomplishment since I don't enjoy machine applique -- these are the last three I've done and there is just one more to do this week. </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I like the blocks and have this (awesome) idea in my head about the setting but I'm not sure I'll be able to get the idea out of my head and onto the design wall??</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_slzwxKy6fK3yjMVxMnpclnp_QyMV4DKWbnzFanXFSzTCT7JlyXrXcqJjc683nhjd92dYktxbmHG0jX07mNK1dam1iEL7TxEveUsTpDEM4K7-YIybYnrHV4pfY-oD3EvuQWh2ccGvZqXHU1CL3AgqJa4YdUSTnwFqIQB93LAWRUFX1EGQlEQZz-96OQ/s3214/IMG_20230523_142951263.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3214" data-original-width="2318" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_slzwxKy6fK3yjMVxMnpclnp_QyMV4DKWbnzFanXFSzTCT7JlyXrXcqJjc683nhjd92dYktxbmHG0jX07mNK1dam1iEL7TxEveUsTpDEM4K7-YIybYnrHV4pfY-oD3EvuQWh2ccGvZqXHU1CL3AgqJa4YdUSTnwFqIQB93LAWRUFX1EGQlEQZz-96OQ/w462-h640/IMG_20230523_142951263.jpg" width="462" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I knit this cute little pair of shorty socks with ruffled cuffs -- not sure if I'll keep them or gift them?</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjaBoiNdFqQsI8WuNs98sNqJtQKS1Nhs9gnWLL0Jy_lDH8NBWcD_c5SImMde3hFCKrb_vJ_oxSpBmWUW71z7ahy1syzn2p34RMvMJMu0uLbLFO5r_T4zXY0XTGZCpY6vDwsVeJJSOwTJXQAG3gwp7uyZdXsNuGQW0r4jyB6C8JhCwjRdkrlwtKDfAog/s3001/original_8e4f90ff-841c-4135-83bf-edc8109138ba_IMG_20230519_144943152_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="3001" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIjaBoiNdFqQsI8WuNs98sNqJtQKS1Nhs9gnWLL0Jy_lDH8NBWcD_c5SImMde3hFCKrb_vJ_oxSpBmWUW71z7ahy1syzn2p34RMvMJMu0uLbLFO5r_T4zXY0XTGZCpY6vDwsVeJJSOwTJXQAG3gwp7uyZdXsNuGQW0r4jyB6C8JhCwjRdkrlwtKDfAog/w400-h313/original_8e4f90ff-841c-4135-83bf-edc8109138ba_IMG_20230519_144943152_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A quilting friend (very kindly) pointed out a new BOM from <a href="https://meerkatshweshwe.com/">C</a>eleste at <a href="https://meerkatshweshwe.com/" target="_blank">Meerkat Shweshwe African Prints</a> -- definitely not too late to join in the fun!! Only six months long and each month features one block to be made six times. I'm totally copying Celeste's color scheme because I am too tired (from birding) to think.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4hVQMlY7X3SMUVDmm42zwcAMtmSUomQkciUj78ruXiggB31JBAEIWgaZG85A_33i541RvvzqWL3Mwvdu9lRrk_V6vX8Ndk9sg-5imraDyGLZaE7yO9KAuaV_lUSUoobC3__mOFRatZdHLkTlwZUyHqHF6B8BSACfhr0to0htaxmNno76z4gIZeir9g/s2601/IMG_20230517_200002532.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2601" data-original-width="2340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij4hVQMlY7X3SMUVDmm42zwcAMtmSUomQkciUj78ruXiggB31JBAEIWgaZG85A_33i541RvvzqWL3Mwvdu9lRrk_V6vX8Ndk9sg-5imraDyGLZaE7yO9KAuaV_lUSUoobC3__mOFRatZdHLkTlwZUyHqHF6B8BSACfhr0to0htaxmNno76z4gIZeir9g/w360-h400/IMG_20230517_200002532.jpg" width="360" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'm still on track with the Flourishes BOM that has been ageing in my stash for 3 decades. I am rediscovering an enjoyment of hand applique.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XvEcnYvrpa_eKqexaDkxFLqkhBpzD7JPdGaSiNc5Qnm0TEEQN1qCWlbwlf5bn3I9iRPEN3E1KEXe5tYZLmGijXO14CU6_uCqD5Y6tgnq1YLKOsBanM2dwVdDK7__WZFgqLs08CDg2LUtLz14HgbWzcjmaXwD9lVHYlgGf-hllHzpT2XKWg6fl-lpRg/s4160/IMG_20230523_143006288.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8XvEcnYvrpa_eKqexaDkxFLqkhBpzD7JPdGaSiNc5Qnm0TEEQN1qCWlbwlf5bn3I9iRPEN3E1KEXe5tYZLmGijXO14CU6_uCqD5Y6tgnq1YLKOsBanM2dwVdDK7__WZFgqLs08CDg2LUtLz14HgbWzcjmaXwD9lVHYlgGf-hllHzpT2XKWg6fl-lpRg/w360-h640/IMG_20230523_143006288.jpg" width="360" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Each month, when I finish the Flourishes block, I work on making a couple more blocks for an EPP quilt from Australian design company,<a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/1044296243/pdf-hextravaganza-quilt-pattern?click_key=fc78062d163c8c2fe01fa25a90fbe93189243980%3A1044296243&click_sum=b9ae38f2&ref=shop_home_active_13" target="_blank"> Rachaeldaisy Designs -- it's called Hextravaganza</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My version won't be as "carefree" but I'm having fun pulling out piles of fabric and organizing interesting combinations!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFKMJ7b73DYe1qfRKRFBzYoASgtOoqSxHemsA8kO-IbrcC02cAp6OaGqmo4U9IW8Np6s79vTA3LuF4n1bHDOW-eZkON7dvAA_xrfizjOkxx3BIsLmCwotRq6wJ0XYW85XJe83Ci-g21Rlh-QZouEQc5NKHRDpeI7vq4FNzYBPGp33V92-ozKrxBb8qMA/s2340/IMG_20230523_142935374.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2330" data-original-width="2340" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFKMJ7b73DYe1qfRKRFBzYoASgtOoqSxHemsA8kO-IbrcC02cAp6OaGqmo4U9IW8Np6s79vTA3LuF4n1bHDOW-eZkON7dvAA_xrfizjOkxx3BIsLmCwotRq6wJ0XYW85XJe83Ci-g21Rlh-QZouEQc5NKHRDpeI7vq4FNzYBPGp33V92-ozKrxBb8qMA/w640-h638/IMG_20230523_142935374.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My goal is twelve blocks with an emphasis on "using up stash"!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> There has been a little machine quilting -- and as I write this, I'm remembering that there are two small quilts up in the studio -- quilting is finished, binding is ready.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I need a rainy day!?!<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CkDVWAGVE1Ot05JkpImKwIQcsnSUvauVg5MbyP1cYiC1JBHCGSW1TrcVVkQb3lMbHlUepxpTN5a3y0EjRH1lRhWdknTXBX-VrjybBVsKk8FeUaz9jKF0g4c0lpo7fIBoUG3Su50XMs9I9_3eF1rmdJUuctejwfLpPVW6Xo3i3du1vvapK8FpI_No9w/s2790/IMG_20230523_143219110.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2790" data-original-width="2340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7CkDVWAGVE1Ot05JkpImKwIQcsnSUvauVg5MbyP1cYiC1JBHCGSW1TrcVVkQb3lMbHlUepxpTN5a3y0EjRH1lRhWdknTXBX-VrjybBVsKk8FeUaz9jKF0g4c0lpo7fIBoUG3Su50XMs9I9_3eF1rmdJUuctejwfLpPVW6Xo3i3du1vvapK8FpI_No9w/w536-h640/IMG_20230523_143219110.jpg" width="536" /></a></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">And of course, I have to hang out with the "littles"! They will be four years old in a couple weeks!?! (and I'll be older, too??)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS28rdKqxvb844Kryfs8zlT1aTTv1cuzQ6kgvTGXuyTt7gKZmwkdQkLBl0lpXUX98ZOd2sR3EIhjNCrMfRLJhgOKQiCSzOHzyVxJ-eTDdXgeTqDRLVyBj02g120DV5YPR9UAIHeBYH1aKcRiWuFUFiDJlXKEhpycj585HhvWktxEnOpOq4K1UjZFKyow/s4160/IMG_20230510_123408098_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4160" data-original-width="2340" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS28rdKqxvb844Kryfs8zlT1aTTv1cuzQ6kgvTGXuyTt7gKZmwkdQkLBl0lpXUX98ZOd2sR3EIhjNCrMfRLJhgOKQiCSzOHzyVxJ-eTDdXgeTqDRLVyBj02g120DV5YPR9UAIHeBYH1aKcRiWuFUFiDJlXKEhpycj585HhvWktxEnOpOq4K1UjZFKyow/w360-h640/IMG_20230510_123408098_HDR.jpg" width="360" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">When they were here on Mother's Day to help their Dad install a new bush for me, one of the butterflies I overwintered as chrysalis emerged -- oh my, were we all excited!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It was a female spicebush swallowtail and we were so excited that a picture was not possible. Since then three more have emerged including this male black swallowtail.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfGPkXR0e0Tuj24U6_cz_5JAVnS5vtSRfeF4zTqtNWzpmJXpkY0612EslqjTSzyeWkSeeCvB2S7NOlugKOUMKz53pevHn3OpQppvZeVrIV7lJdeC1-pODcyQfgo_ToVIcMfU76LmmrDsJKUtGStYDY6ML2aW0OpRxUlSfM8mZ7g4ED-wsvAP8t-VF4xQ/s1850/IMG_20230516_161850704_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1850" data-original-width="1820" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfGPkXR0e0Tuj24U6_cz_5JAVnS5vtSRfeF4zTqtNWzpmJXpkY0612EslqjTSzyeWkSeeCvB2S7NOlugKOUMKz53pevHn3OpQppvZeVrIV7lJdeC1-pODcyQfgo_ToVIcMfU76LmmrDsJKUtGStYDY6ML2aW0OpRxUlSfM8mZ7g4ED-wsvAP8t-VF4xQ/w394-h400/IMG_20230516_161850704_HDR.jpg" width="394" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One of my "written down" goals this month was to get a few quilts listed for sale on ETSY -- it's so hard for me to let go of my makes but they do need to be thinned out a bit. So if you've always wanted to own one of my pieces -- here is your chance!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/MaryHueyQuilts" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">MaryHueyQuilts on Etsy</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time for 30 minutes weeding in the front flower bed!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-23121175454638833332023-04-26T13:59:00.000-07:002023-04-26T13:59:56.984-07:00Look at This!?!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A BIG project is finished!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden, an original design by Katja Marek was my big focus in 2022. I pieced my version as part of her annual sew-along. <a href="https://paperpieces.com/collections/homage-to-grandmothers-flower-garden" target="_blank">The pattern and English paper piecing supplies are available from Paper Pieces in Paducah, KY HERE.</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">My version is machine-pieced using 3/4" hexagons (cut with a Marti Michell template) and my Set-In Piecing Simplified technique to chain piece -- <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/534089188/set-in-piecing-simplified-pdf?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=Set-In+Piecing+Simplified&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&organic_search_click=1" target="_blank">PDF HERE.</a> Most participants used 1" hexagons and English paper piecing including Katja's mom who worked with 1/2" hexagons!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS10B7BYwt_z6Sjoq14kNboeWKiOwL15JDgt_kQsXnCMLx5SuF-hB-8DXKEZzA98coNGEwIT9Mr0fLoW6fxW0whdEc5pcmwQgEAEL4yrX14fHbg2ogy3r7UZoegRpb7BiSn-KV4uJr8xf02nRyoLI60HErpU7WdGpVUZxLuN-LjGdgP74T3_GSxVZeqg/s2487/IMG_20230426_100833898_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="2323" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS10B7BYwt_z6Sjoq14kNboeWKiOwL15JDgt_kQsXnCMLx5SuF-hB-8DXKEZzA98coNGEwIT9Mr0fLoW6fxW0whdEc5pcmwQgEAEL4yrX14fHbg2ogy3r7UZoegRpb7BiSn-KV4uJr8xf02nRyoLI60HErpU7WdGpVUZxLuN-LjGdgP74T3_GSxVZeqg/w598-h640/IMG_20230426_100833898_HDR.jpg" width="598" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The finished quilt measures 58" square and it is destined to hang on the wall of the guest room at the head of the bed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is my inspiration fabric which I found in my stash -- all the "double" flower motifs contain fussy cut hexagons from it. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKs-yk65BHwZOq-YmmoGKccp2fXStltUzt_T9-1DFRELy6am5qq7ichZAz8Ne_XNhoBpQ00S5YdIe3DIX7QrvdTzcQd0HzvOcKo0dK1e8gy97QGR_Jj3ecROKyF1E8oG0tQD1tKf25QafZ1g52FNfN4J08eYp4aFAgdsNJ5HDKNlW2yB7cXpLSEmDnTw/s2340/IMG_20230426_155814702.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="2340" height="552" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKs-yk65BHwZOq-YmmoGKccp2fXStltUzt_T9-1DFRELy6am5qq7ichZAz8Ne_XNhoBpQ00S5YdIe3DIX7QrvdTzcQd0HzvOcKo0dK1e8gy97QGR_Jj3ecROKyF1E8oG0tQD1tKf25QafZ1g52FNfN4J08eYp4aFAgdsNJ5HDKNlW2yB7cXpLSEmDnTw/w640-h552/IMG_20230426_155814702.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I plotted out the placement of the three colors used -- pink, blue, yellow -- so that they (almost) never touch. You can see in the photo that it's really chopped up</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6guZonUX6MOJZpdzPInfP3CsDED7c-929N1Gf0C45Otawx_B7QCrwB9ApBlsp3NgOwMRLRMFB2aIAk4Vr6oG71gS30MJFAtDWv1DtT80yVNtXepUGdRUlKhcKbUTeTyHIEzZWM-qOhaiRsGjpWaM9yOwjq7dgdDUWLFIQaImIlDfrrFha2f1nM_Uw6g/s2781/IMG_20230426_155829796.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2781" data-original-width="2340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6guZonUX6MOJZpdzPInfP3CsDED7c-929N1Gf0C45Otawx_B7QCrwB9ApBlsp3NgOwMRLRMFB2aIAk4Vr6oG71gS30MJFAtDWv1DtT80yVNtXepUGdRUlKhcKbUTeTyHIEzZWM-qOhaiRsGjpWaM9yOwjq7dgdDUWLFIQaImIlDfrrFha2f1nM_Uw6g/w336-h400/IMG_20230426_155829796.jpg" width="336" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">but I did have enough to make the binding which I think is perfect.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8HNSw5GI0-Nlehm9-WeiVU6v673LRy4BFXtJA3lQKrCpi_WzvZakZzYC1Bh03ILQkHolo5kwBbOufqTiTDkKxr2wq5L6vRFpxWdQ0aBnjuwgLceEneYMXToMcPSaQVf85yPKog832b5B2F_9TbjYj4nVzpC8stL0IvHJzI62egnaJ5IwaAdvCb6L8g/s2116/IMG_20230426_100925456_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="1751" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw8HNSw5GI0-Nlehm9-WeiVU6v673LRy4BFXtJA3lQKrCpi_WzvZakZzYC1Bh03ILQkHolo5kwBbOufqTiTDkKxr2wq5L6vRFpxWdQ0aBnjuwgLceEneYMXToMcPSaQVf85yPKog832b5B2F_9TbjYj4nVzpC8stL0IvHJzI62egnaJ5IwaAdvCb6L8g/w331-h400/IMG_20230426_100925456_HDR.jpg" width="331" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I used a combination of machine and hand quilting -- I like doing that! The machine quilting is "in the ditch" and crosses the center of each hexagon making a rhythmic pattern of equilateral triangles. Once the center of the quilt was finished, I hand quilted (big stitch style) all the flower motifs with pearl cotton -- I like doing that, too! Then I returned to the machine to quilt the area outside the wreath.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtEez4CExMI0H8aG4P8z7SMk1Lxvp-LsKcNikynRKdizcgcRop1Kn6HL11cugo8r8bKfwChlVqaCL9ZqaXFOfmr3nYyjIMENx_Ioz8Ju6s_lzaiBFMUPV73IVBz07_GbdFC9H1ViaZEZxk4PPwAgkmR_gGqorH31TiGinnEMn0_Iwlz8GYYddYZy6JMg/s4160/IMG_20230426_100857930.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2340" data-original-width="4160" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtEez4CExMI0H8aG4P8z7SMk1Lxvp-LsKcNikynRKdizcgcRop1Kn6HL11cugo8r8bKfwChlVqaCL9ZqaXFOfmr3nYyjIMENx_Ioz8Ju6s_lzaiBFMUPV73IVBz07_GbdFC9H1ViaZEZxk4PPwAgkmR_gGqorH31TiGinnEMn0_Iwlz8GYYddYZy6JMg/w640-h360/IMG_20230426_100857930.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">It was fun to sort out the fussy cutting and you'll notice there are bees in almost every flower center</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5BZdNjizclxO3LdZ2KU4JP3joRVh_pdzaTxMtTXJoVkD8xkLHotNy8pUg8szpYn7DRnhfNDd86sRjZeDpMlBZfug4VfEqaSQUmKJ-1iElS7p_3zUnfAM4eQmlqhY4V3TZeshOWOJp-oAmIbZmDRgLAeGkQ6qHOKCViRnzgPnGjQtJp-aFU0P8Phd6Q/s2576/IMG_20230426_101015189_BURST000_COVER.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2310" data-original-width="2576" height="359" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5BZdNjizclxO3LdZ2KU4JP3joRVh_pdzaTxMtTXJoVkD8xkLHotNy8pUg8szpYn7DRnhfNDd86sRjZeDpMlBZfug4VfEqaSQUmKJ-1iElS7p_3zUnfAM4eQmlqhY4V3TZeshOWOJp-oAmIbZmDRgLAeGkQ6qHOKCViRnzgPnGjQtJp-aFU0P8Phd6Q/w400-h359/IMG_20230426_101015189_BURST000_COVER.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For a few of the double flowers, I used the kite shape and eliminated the center hexagon just for fun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdb7htNdSaIoUPUVi9WvYrCy14Rw9WeDzhhvNLXpAbIzKzUdHXpCPUKBJOgvh_tCa7gFxk8sr73adfl676ufaZtcE3e1NwbYdbSI2rNZGkqt4IHosxyl4ddAKmPqgQNlGi4WPXXQNKPW3_mN8q3UZZYJehQALTDYWifdWTphaSArKwRp0wkIpXx6JfoA/s2579/IMG_20230426_100958728_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2204" data-original-width="2579" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdb7htNdSaIoUPUVi9WvYrCy14Rw9WeDzhhvNLXpAbIzKzUdHXpCPUKBJOgvh_tCa7gFxk8sr73adfl676ufaZtcE3e1NwbYdbSI2rNZGkqt4IHosxyl4ddAKmPqgQNlGi4WPXXQNKPW3_mN8q3UZZYJehQALTDYWifdWTphaSArKwRp0wkIpXx6JfoA/w400-h341/IMG_20230426_100958728_HDR.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm feeling pretty "chuffed" that I finished this quilt in 16 months and relieved that it's done before spring birding and gardening kicks into high gear!! I have seen at least two other finished ones on Instagram -- <a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/homagetogfg/" target="_blank">HERE </a>-- but I expect many quilters are still working on their version.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggen1D649djM9LtMKbXARCA91gfCrt4C_S0be_vdjsMBYL6cx9gKFqljKoA-tBA2IQa1lhTFuhSw07LBi8OLXGDI9NyhweF3dGLjtMOZYDeyGHOhxDH2PSOQWY_litgIZonoxkCDPZTfNq8hnhu-7iiaZWiWnnCMlChDs2g11b231asP9SjGIl0xEAQg/s2515/IMG_20230426_100936482_HDR.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2515" data-original-width="2340" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggen1D649djM9LtMKbXARCA91gfCrt4C_S0be_vdjsMBYL6cx9gKFqljKoA-tBA2IQa1lhTFuhSw07LBi8OLXGDI9NyhweF3dGLjtMOZYDeyGHOhxDH2PSOQWY_litgIZonoxkCDPZTfNq8hnhu-7iiaZWiWnnCMlChDs2g11b231asP9SjGIl0xEAQg/w373-h400/IMG_20230426_100936482_HDR.jpg" width="373" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As is often the case when I finished a BIG project, my wheels have been spinning while I figure out where to focus the energy and time but with a stack of waiting quilt tops, it wasn't hard to find something to do. I layered this little top and have it almost ready to bind!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Qmmn5BNT_-QncViNX5wo7zjP0l5dapayQYLJlNa6OsbN8I8267B4BuBdqjHOrhJR-tV2UTyBPU-T-6FaeY_di_FXAVUuv-gTaSxsF6hFQ57Q8-X47uMmQUl3pa7gmepDL8SKhk90kR6cM-iY7rRSnnS9dT94bxNWUa4wq-0mM7d3uf0ZplmPZZemkg/s2559/IMG_20230403_130750643.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2559" data-original-width="2200" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0Qmmn5BNT_-QncViNX5wo7zjP0l5dapayQYLJlNa6OsbN8I8267B4BuBdqjHOrhJR-tV2UTyBPU-T-6FaeY_di_FXAVUuv-gTaSxsF6hFQ57Q8-X47uMmQUl3pa7gmepDL8SKhk90kR6cM-iY7rRSnnS9dT94bxNWUa4wq-0mM7d3uf0ZplmPZZemkg/w550-h640/IMG_20230403_130750643.jpg" width="550" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">With May on the doorstep, it will be time next week to tackled Block #5 of the Flourishes BOM after I have a little palette cleanser knitting project.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIefq_NdACI6uoguIqXfO9x-t5PXhrqnc_qPZMSibQy-HxfFJs-4NsY4OJv5xaATJhoU_MDKgb85Lym-tUJ5cBJ5WhoKcvKvQeT97SlC-cCwtUS-8RHbLHRz4-JkELVRbnCMQiPv4QJMmE-xJhg4aKbeelR2IXRYOu_OVpwFtuUcoi96MtqaF4ylz4rA/s2983/IMG_20230424_221545515.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2983" data-original-width="2340" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIefq_NdACI6uoguIqXfO9x-t5PXhrqnc_qPZMSibQy-HxfFJs-4NsY4OJv5xaATJhoU_MDKgb85Lym-tUJ5cBJ5WhoKcvKvQeT97SlC-cCwtUS-8RHbLHRz4-JkELVRbnCMQiPv4QJMmE-xJhg4aKbeelR2IXRYOu_OVpwFtuUcoi96MtqaF4ylz4rA/s320/IMG_20230424_221545515.jpg" width="251" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Enjoy the last weekend of April!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-62680792083052291732023-04-12T12:53:00.001-07:002023-04-12T12:53:39.375-07:00Spring - Time to Diddle Around<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spring is advancing here in Northeast Ohio -- we had lots of rain for a couple weeks and now it's warmer than usual but next week will be much cooler . . . so I don't want to do much in the garden.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And because I'm embracing the current movement to loosen up my control of nature in my yard, about all I can do right now is dig out noxious weeds and I've done what I can do of that today physically. I watered the new strawberry plants and the bok choy seedlings and the pansies. I've walked all around the yard (twice) to see what's coming up and who's coming out -- there are lots of small solitary bees on the native trout lilies which are at peak bloom. (The bees were moving too fast to photograph.) </span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaeR296SKYcg1SuChib98gj5aejDuPgOVssXHSXcAvX8GrAkhkNEM_QYgHtzniy71QJ2MBZycEbhwagZSnuKNEyKegK2x1PCtTrdp3euFRLhsok9U3cO7CTNBRzzD1aD7ZVib3EC2Cby_M1P_8wCpDPVsb7r-K3pKLQcD3XjetQjc96G4loMGM8sRqQ/s3760/P1050867%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2660" data-original-width="3760" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmaeR296SKYcg1SuChib98gj5aejDuPgOVssXHSXcAvX8GrAkhkNEM_QYgHtzniy71QJ2MBZycEbhwagZSnuKNEyKegK2x1PCtTrdp3euFRLhsok9U3cO7CTNBRzzD1aD7ZVib3EC2Cby_M1P_8wCpDPVsb7r-K3pKLQcD3XjetQjc96G4loMGM8sRqQ/w640-h452/P1050867%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I've walked to the back fence three times (picking up sticks in the lawn each time) to see if the Screech Owl that lives in the big maple is out sunbathing. She's not today but this is a (poor) picture I got of her a couple days ago (right in the center of the picture) -- looks like little bunny ears sticking out of the hole.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And I've made good progress on picking up sticks!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBXWYRQ-HXVzkMG413390iEvA2CrVczoEgVi6Ukwrz0Gn-vAYeOb9UHBoOnBO4t1AaF5kA2xkmiUttSzW-p0Fy4yNEVb5_QuZlBkXtvC-8pLVKpzZgVCSGxL8mn_7uSNvLjfE2FdFNsCAON2tt9JaS9zbWUE1vYB0C9u5BHevSC_IDsQXOkgFJI5WBw/s5472/P1050854%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNBXWYRQ-HXVzkMG413390iEvA2CrVczoEgVi6Ukwrz0Gn-vAYeOb9UHBoOnBO4t1AaF5kA2xkmiUttSzW-p0Fy4yNEVb5_QuZlBkXtvC-8pLVKpzZgVCSGxL8mn_7uSNvLjfE2FdFNsCAON2tt9JaS9zbWUE1vYB0C9u5BHevSC_IDsQXOkgFJI5WBw/w640-h426/P1050854%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I spent forty-five minutes in my studio prepping appliques for a couple projects. The Whirly Weeds series is at the halfway point and this week's plant is "bastard cabbage". With a name like that, you know it has to be non-native and perhaps invasive in the southwest USA.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I figured out the arrangement of the leaves which I had prepped last evening,<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bTlZVRXWZY6GvzmBl7ku7uwbBluvOJDIh8dQPC5ghRFVRNSAwcwsF9mH0-r6Py7axItE-YMeNw66HKzHBPA7kDp-c7LDqtMtGR4HP4eGOUcDKs3EqXPgBtIKsW_wvlhYonbS8WsQbUNDguBSWmLtniFzYvp_uWgKi9I53bO5d52tyagCat5TLVWfAA/s4132/P1050856%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3539" data-original-width="4132" height="548" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9bTlZVRXWZY6GvzmBl7ku7uwbBluvOJDIh8dQPC5ghRFVRNSAwcwsF9mH0-r6Py7axItE-YMeNw66HKzHBPA7kDp-c7LDqtMtGR4HP4eGOUcDKs3EqXPgBtIKsW_wvlhYonbS8WsQbUNDguBSWmLtniFzYvp_uWgKi9I53bO5d52tyagCat5TLVWfAA/w640-h548/P1050856%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">chose the thread color I want to use,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK0QEcxNei4gJu-7bh9aVbNQDkrYaiqTXzzI0Xv37JmWu4kxpIvbXjwUsmPRmX47X-gn6fh1T2DQTjk9RxDO0uEqfQz318b5Ji3Xy27ArkmsgrjDsh5H0yOaUW4UmxY04MyfQDKSpjk5ri1qJY6NDuBhX6BRrDZ27DMz-bdE-3KV-Ty24HuVbs1oupg/s5472/P1050862%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnK0QEcxNei4gJu-7bh9aVbNQDkrYaiqTXzzI0Xv37JmWu4kxpIvbXjwUsmPRmX47X-gn6fh1T2DQTjk9RxDO0uEqfQz318b5Ji3Xy27ArkmsgrjDsh5H0yOaUW4UmxY04MyfQDKSpjk5ri1qJY6NDuBhX6BRrDZ27DMz-bdE-3KV-Ty24HuVbs1oupg/w640-h426/P1050862%20(1).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">and set up my machine so it's ready to go later today or tomorrow.</span></div></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_OvlhJ9VMYU0qvGDq2qKiEZYisIVBkSw4frzfv4hlFPiMNQ9lYWTkvPxjGDJtcT8PF776d70WQo8IkQfCAsJwgR4Msw0ZbPcCf_6FvQ8xBOr_BDP6Mjq2NoRWs3-YeMLP5SGYCx__sAMefc1cwvIVYNI97J0YxXlU03m7cMrZZHTVuRvJcyX_vHdHA/s5472/P1050863.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV_OvlhJ9VMYU0qvGDq2qKiEZYisIVBkSw4frzfv4hlFPiMNQ9lYWTkvPxjGDJtcT8PF776d70WQo8IkQfCAsJwgR4Msw0ZbPcCf_6FvQ8xBOr_BDP6Mjq2NoRWs3-YeMLP5SGYCx__sAMefc1cwvIVYNI97J0YxXlU03m7cMrZZHTVuRvJcyX_vHdHA/w640-h426/P1050863.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The remains of the prepping process -- still in a pile on the floor next to my recliner?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwpLFqyMnn67mdV-LGnmhNLYgsCS8N2vRNgsfzSMjAi4WpZKY87BynMVgCBx2KpXZk9-Gcwon8GPxVjxeriRPo-nbhKtU0OG5ssOWGCSXv0CPPKXGr4uPtfcLzQsBd5GCeGJ-74TVpqe5JWhwcGW5_62h02_slWOerAGFc8T7hcByH3wTHDWfvG6u8g/s4321/P1050855%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3497" data-original-width="4321" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiwpLFqyMnn67mdV-LGnmhNLYgsCS8N2vRNgsfzSMjAi4WpZKY87BynMVgCBx2KpXZk9-Gcwon8GPxVjxeriRPo-nbhKtU0OG5ssOWGCSXv0CPPKXGr4uPtfcLzQsBd5GCeGJ-74TVpqe5JWhwcGW5_62h02_slWOerAGFc8T7hcByH3wTHDWfvG6u8g/w640-h518/P1050855%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I pulled out the light table and prepped and positioned the next few pieces to be added to the fourth block of my Flourishes BOM project. I've probably used the light table more in the past 3 months than anytime since I invested in it -- good investment!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc9odzpE-1cbaPvstihayEWjFFTFACGli5NYI7Jiggf5MhdjpOXJ3JjlU9LgbnP0U6sEdHRhaAs60aX5-DMDfLIol-r7dJ8GWxabRySpTXO7gz3wBtQdmtTMqtXC1QD5OA_EdGKD_dCl827fzb46YgPdv8leYM2T6vBiAdN3WSeyQrtTSYdyixAEovQ/s4220/P1050857%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="4220" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHc9odzpE-1cbaPvstihayEWjFFTFACGli5NYI7Jiggf5MhdjpOXJ3JjlU9LgbnP0U6sEdHRhaAs60aX5-DMDfLIol-r7dJ8GWxabRySpTXO7gz3wBtQdmtTMqtXC1QD5OA_EdGKD_dCl827fzb46YgPdv8leYM2T6vBiAdN3WSeyQrtTSYdyixAEovQ/w400-h346/P1050857%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The designers of Flourishes are Becky Goldsmith and Linda Jenkins -- they suggest finger pressing the seams before positioning the applique pieces and it's a great trick -- makes the needle turning so much easier!</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30KWqm9gN4JXLW3ypq_dsZJw6_G2-EGF3GBwWkCfSoc1hPpo0tKyylxyebhjXrCFIOW4LTkwqKQLlAq9THiegd9IuBEK7wJKbM_WjyiKqZWTLKLQt11Go4Ryn70HAG6Iy3s_puHkPwdJX97CTzE63uTW0ul4eViqTyTDNKyeqUZVW15d1wgvkUAiITA/s5472/P1050858%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh30KWqm9gN4JXLW3ypq_dsZJw6_G2-EGF3GBwWkCfSoc1hPpo0tKyylxyebhjXrCFIOW4LTkwqKQLlAq9THiegd9IuBEK7wJKbM_WjyiKqZWTLKLQt11Go4Ryn70HAG6Iy3s_puHkPwdJX97CTzE63uTW0ul4eViqTyTDNKyeqUZVW15d1wgvkUAiITA/w400-h266/P1050858%20(1).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I came across my old stash of applique pins -- 3/4" long -- another seldom used but good investment. Much less finger poking!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_cYP2rjGes8dFPM2WtHygyf70c1LuipRYHUNEmbwbOGJfWafmtGX0H1bBUczi60XZYvHW_fsuFnRYrO7aL5Q6K0LEVJLu82QAh2enbmjEEgM_3aCuCXOfDwktwqq8EG_YRujJrkcia-OP5i19TtCdbW2gTzcUlbz3jaHYSiXpjDxa3jEglpmQD6CMQ/s4184/P1050859%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3284" data-original-width="4184" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX_cYP2rjGes8dFPM2WtHygyf70c1LuipRYHUNEmbwbOGJfWafmtGX0H1bBUczi60XZYvHW_fsuFnRYrO7aL5Q6K0LEVJLu82QAh2enbmjEEgM_3aCuCXOfDwktwqq8EG_YRujJrkcia-OP5i19TtCdbW2gTzcUlbz3jaHYSiXpjDxa3jEglpmQD6CMQ/w400-h314/P1050859%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Block 4 is progressing nicely and I think I'll have it finished in a couple days! This project is going so much better than I anticipated. I'm keeping up, I'm enjoying the process, and I'm surprised!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSfU5KpRv2Uf4jTT5ikE3-KsgIsHuZG1lAUKVvu2twedCokqK68oEtPK-HCanCf-9egloCzuR5PTyPC83HRWfDCCL8bg_Wt9Uw-CQW_OiiCeEgqNk_pn7tN5N3Uty3KlKKs7dRbDlmEe8OVGiYPTKAeb2cGqQcdPgeP0YcBwaBujJ7pFAiQC9xipIOA/s3826/P1050860%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3508" data-original-width="3826" height="586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifSfU5KpRv2Uf4jTT5ikE3-KsgIsHuZG1lAUKVvu2twedCokqK68oEtPK-HCanCf-9egloCzuR5PTyPC83HRWfDCCL8bg_Wt9Uw-CQW_OiiCeEgqNk_pn7tN5N3Uty3KlKKs7dRbDlmEe8OVGiYPTKAeb2cGqQcdPgeP0YcBwaBujJ7pFAiQC9xipIOA/w640-h586/P1050860%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Plus I talked myself out of starting a new piecing project -- now that's an accomplishment.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So a good spasm of "diddling" (as opposed to "dithering" which accomplishes nothing)! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Now if I could just figure out what to fix for supper?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maybe I'll go pick up the pile of trimmings.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Carry on!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-4191416712746648262023-04-03T15:51:00.004-07:002023-07-01T11:55:40.501-07:00Accountability? First Quarter 2023 Review<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: medium;"> Earlier today, I was looking for something in a recent blog post and reminded of my (energetic) post from the end of 2022 laying out a few goals for 2023. I can't forget about them because I leave my work journal open to the page with the list on the desk by my sewing machine so I will see it every day!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Just the same, perhaps a "first quarter" progress review would be a good idea to keep me accountable and rejuvenate my focus? So this post is written mostly for my benefit which makes reading further optional for you.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> 1. <u> Finish six more UFO's from the leftover 2022 list</u>. Excellent progress here -- two are completely finished, three are finished tops (instead of piles of stuff) and another one just came off the shelf to serve it's time as a "leader/ender" project!</span></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Leftover blocks and a hoarded fabric finally used!!</span></div><span style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6kF9mmFrYkyQZ3aZIcgBdeSDszLEnZHUwFDNKzCVrJ1HGVesegGgW2YnmxCBssV2Efd0fQXFx75bUYJTXae4Mi8RmehfO0700xDWLTmdSVe2zl3Sj8pZ8tcemexfZf2TFxyqWV7WkZfVFTRfLGGR_Y6ufvo9Ii80Z9vG-Aeb0W0fxNJUbPeNYstJDfw/s5472/P1050661.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6kF9mmFrYkyQZ3aZIcgBdeSDszLEnZHUwFDNKzCVrJ1HGVesegGgW2YnmxCBssV2Efd0fQXFx75bUYJTXae4Mi8RmehfO0700xDWLTmdSVe2zl3Sj8pZ8tcemexfZf2TFxyqWV7WkZfVFTRfLGGR_Y6ufvo9Ii80Z9vG-Aeb0W0fxNJUbPeNYstJDfw/w640-h426/P1050661.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2. <u>Quilt the new tops I made in 2022</u>. Moderate progress here -- no finishes but one is just past the halfway point of quilting. And I'm giving myself a "pat on the back" for quilting three lap-size quilt tops that I've pieced since the beginning of the year!! (That's so not me!?!)</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A blend of machine and hand quilting is in progress on my version of Homage to Grandmother's Flower Garden. I just finished the hand quilting last evening and will now do the machine quilting around the outside edges -- an April finish for sure!!<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaU3qj7e2mbAmxFi_BJLRHZtGA-BYl5DkqbIkR3wqUs7E55TWj3X3lHWNmw2cmeGNciueGZd1FmN7lWFluNDMqTiYfhlcCqbBrRdoiP0odjPgl0HBwdYe99U2vj5qkteX7sLum3xpviXmYqyk8A90LE6KlpBzwOyzxlsafnVCWfcEpJXrZVSS7KPNDew/s4185/P1050835%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3391" data-original-width="4185" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaU3qj7e2mbAmxFi_BJLRHZtGA-BYl5DkqbIkR3wqUs7E55TWj3X3lHWNmw2cmeGNciueGZd1FmN7lWFluNDMqTiYfhlcCqbBrRdoiP0odjPgl0HBwdYe99U2vj5qkteX7sLum3xpviXmYqyk8A90LE6KlpBzwOyzxlsafnVCWfcEpJXrZVSS7KPNDew/w640-h518/P1050835%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">3. <u>Deal with all the antique/vintage quilt tops I own</u>. I sold two!! And I have a firm plan for finishing a third one including a recipient when it's done! Six to go!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps I should move this stack to a place where I see it more often?<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO6ZerLjI7DoxjyBHt1RU9mmqUzWUhoA4qCAeRWXqebDohEuzWy3Oqd97xo5noD9xoHL83Oo4msnK6PQGji8sBdSALPofFpXaCSbYU2zwou-UEG1dOMD5un2LrvhU86323ZOheN0Ax8yBcGhO0mvvifPTuxCMLBPmXdv-f5nusZIKf6_6BnAgX7IPKQ/s4626/P1050838%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2801" data-original-width="4626" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbO6ZerLjI7DoxjyBHt1RU9mmqUzWUhoA4qCAeRWXqebDohEuzWy3Oqd97xo5noD9xoHL83Oo4msnK6PQGji8sBdSALPofFpXaCSbYU2zwou-UEG1dOMD5un2LrvhU86323ZOheN0Ax8yBcGhO0mvvifPTuxCMLBPmXdv-f5nusZIKf6_6BnAgX7IPKQ/w640-h388/P1050838%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">4. <u>If/when I start new projects, chose from a list of seven</u> that I've wanted to make for a while. Looking at this one again, what a silly girl I was to say "if/when" -- of course, I'm going to start new projects?!? Of the four piecing and applique projects . . . . no, make that five . . . . that are actively in process at the moment -- two are from the list. But you get it -- it's so hard to resist a shiny new idea!?!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Three of my current "works in progress" -- two from the "list of seven" and one shiny new sew-along (lower left). I'm "storing" them flat on the portable back-up design wall (seeing them every day is so inspiring!!).<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVpdFrD4YrgSWH-cq871pq8FCr3Adr3jv0dCRzuSb5YukQQ8JL7BWbK2uXtIXxEPKCgyMievPSlk1U8dYltAklfa36YSZWHye6KnwjyxmQZzeiVTN5YWenmQDWQDYhBEWWnySJzmEfXlr1iQ4BQsz5N0lrhB7vnTXB7xY4TcAqy35xOr9SxPZCqPznw/s3876/P1050836%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3537" data-original-width="3876" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMVpdFrD4YrgSWH-cq871pq8FCr3Adr3jv0dCRzuSb5YukQQ8JL7BWbK2uXtIXxEPKCgyMievPSlk1U8dYltAklfa36YSZWHye6KnwjyxmQZzeiVTN5YWenmQDWQDYhBEWWnySJzmEfXlr1iQ4BQsz5N0lrhB7vnTXB7xY4TcAqy35xOr9SxPZCqPznw/w640-h584/P1050836%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">5. <u>Rehome twelve finished quilts</u>. Progress on this goal is a bit shaky. I have let go of two quilts and have a short list of quilts and recipients on my desk, but as usual my follow through is a bit light. What's my excuse? I'm a quilt hoarder??? I just need to let go!!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I'm writing this, I'm reviewing my potential recipient list and realize this quilt which I finished last month will be perfect for one of them. It's in the washing machine as we speak getting ready for it's forever home!!<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6_QtpxkmNeANh3qqECjruF27eR7UhzMSA2eDcllzU8mAODLq0Ig71ofxmzzoYy8FLN0pYWILsVN-gH_s6TcONpwSS8ZQG0mAhCU2TdzNu6CjErZW4hL9-aO4oS_o0cXNzx5LfIQYPt2SiaB9FntAxB4yB8iPSWvHnG58ftg-IB0UBg_ThnLLk0iuLA/s3760/P1050839%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3760" data-original-width="3148" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL6_QtpxkmNeANh3qqECjruF27eR7UhzMSA2eDcllzU8mAODLq0Ig71ofxmzzoYy8FLN0pYWILsVN-gH_s6TcONpwSS8ZQG0mAhCU2TdzNu6CjErZW4hL9-aO4oS_o0cXNzx5LfIQYPt2SiaB9FntAxB4yB8iPSWvHnG58ftg-IB0UBg_ThnLLk0iuLA/w536-h640/P1050839%20(2).JPG" width="536" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I was looking for a picture of it to share, I realized I never showed off the finished quilt after posting the tutorial on <a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2023/02/honeycomb-tutorial-for-erin.html" target="_blank">piecing the honeycomb pattern HERE</a> so here it is!! A vibrant border was needed to balance the yellow but when I didn't have enough of the stripe, I had to get creative and plug in those two green prints.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I kept the quilting simple because "finished is the goal" but I did get courageous and use one of my (much neglected) quilting rulers to create that border design.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA7GSpVJe7yP7zBt2Aee2ugwQs3TNiuRvb6qGXx-jkJLZJXfoozER6f6QCm2eqBCvLJvIOI3jdCzLZjro43IiaRS4LEMi8b1TzgTWiWDqQAMdtN-ZSrZ8CXjKvC7roU1kZxBGVpqGNEXHHXgcvySD927SP-z3_S0hE5hW8QK-0OZJm8UJPkzxQQgp9g/s3789/P1050840%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3789" data-original-width="3622" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidA7GSpVJe7yP7zBt2Aee2ugwQs3TNiuRvb6qGXx-jkJLZJXfoozER6f6QCm2eqBCvLJvIOI3jdCzLZjro43IiaRS4LEMi8b1TzgTWiWDqQAMdtN-ZSrZ8CXjKvC7roU1kZxBGVpqGNEXHHXgcvySD927SP-z3_S0hE5hW8QK-0OZJm8UJPkzxQQgp9g/w383-h400/P1050840%20(2).JPG" width="383" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That was fun for me and not too boring for you, I hope -- I just put a sticky note on my July calendar to do a quarterly review again!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our spring has achieved a normal pace thanks to see-saw temperatures, high winds, and lots of rain. I prefer a slow bloom season myself. Here's my best hellebore surrounded by deer fence (it's growing under a witch hazel bush that the deer covet) with a carpet of last year's leaves (hopefully harboring overwintering caterpillars and bumblebee queens) and flanked by stalks of Joe-pye weed from last year (hopefully to be the home of this summer's stem-nesting bees and wasps).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOkPZB3ppoaSWRdcYc6eq4nL_qSc9HnUlZ1cxKiqoTIythTfQaDYrVJXf8cTU-Kual7RVIFWvmMcOubSvEVqQDGPNfoeAHJlC4bHA2Uuw67wVGhtIsDMI7ptie67eexvOONYYukAgeNxmDgZKY61g3j2BcMmIsPAAZLRM3_XHiipV9DVAsvsbGyvwmA/s2951/P1050842%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2200" data-original-width="2951" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSOkPZB3ppoaSWRdcYc6eq4nL_qSc9HnUlZ1cxKiqoTIythTfQaDYrVJXf8cTU-Kual7RVIFWvmMcOubSvEVqQDGPNfoeAHJlC4bHA2Uuw67wVGhtIsDMI7ptie67eexvOONYYukAgeNxmDgZKY61g3j2BcMmIsPAAZLRM3_XHiipV9DVAsvsbGyvwmA/w640-h478/P1050842%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><p style="text-align: center;">Back to the stitching!!</p></span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary<br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-42959359096716112262023-03-23T12:46:00.001-07:002023-06-15T04:51:51.397-07:00A Layer Cake Idea!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you a layer cake sucker? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I'm trying to use up a few (so I can buy more guilt-free?).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I'm pretty good at talking myself out of them but this was one I couldn't resist -- I wanted it so badly, I had a friend buy it for me at QuiltCon in 2019. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Forty exciting African prints!! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I think they came from Crimson & Tate in Indianapolis, Indiana?<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpvvpoX-iqlVfbGxPEhsdyM3-xNvF_qWkP_imK8kIor7nG88KaIGlx-rMKXCgAhnyaVZnltxRDsurWEVYZqAgNZ1k-qq_x5UWq64nB3RGgkO7WXu7AXT2ukobQ6ltZWB30uwjWdLiD0kepdrNUQnser6QaQviqYrdn-LQ7pUPeAEJ-CK4lOMOWnm7BA/s5472/P1050794.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpvvpoX-iqlVfbGxPEhsdyM3-xNvF_qWkP_imK8kIor7nG88KaIGlx-rMKXCgAhnyaVZnltxRDsurWEVYZqAgNZ1k-qq_x5UWq64nB3RGgkO7WXu7AXT2ukobQ6ltZWB30uwjWdLiD0kepdrNUQnser6QaQviqYrdn-LQ7pUPeAEJ-CK4lOMOWnm7BA/w640-h426/P1050794.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Problem was that I could not cut them up!?! I auditioned several ideas, but never started anything. What is the point of buying fabric you don't have the courage to use??? Then last week, while filing some old teaching handouts, I had a lightbulb moment. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Make a ZIG ZAG quilt!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Step one -- cut all the 10" squares on both diagonals into four triangles.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>Caution</u></b> -- measure some of the squares to make sure they are actually squares. The layer cake I used for the Exploding Heart quilt was 10" by 10 1/4". It wasn't a problem for that quilt but it would have been for this one so trimming them to perfect squares is a good idea!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2016/02/last-summer-my-youngest-daughter.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">A link to cutting and piecing this design with Marti Michell tools HERE.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy75ufwf26D2GWwkFlprK_YHR-ocn3EzL3PeCjuKeZTzo_Q3hycUYzEjnCXprWuoGc0C1uoW69UvFnAd4jVp9BihV6G0J_6OR8hVFueyyBpC1Ww6xjb8jvwEkKN6C0RmzOmND2H8mRQfDf07CEl9JLMnp4OJ1iH-CXcdZXlOavt7eSBoM8y7M8Y8KSag/s4779/P1050795%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="4779" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy75ufwf26D2GWwkFlprK_YHR-ocn3EzL3PeCjuKeZTzo_Q3hycUYzEjnCXprWuoGc0C1uoW69UvFnAd4jVp9BihV6G0J_6OR8hVFueyyBpC1Ww6xjb8jvwEkKN6C0RmzOmND2H8mRQfDf07CEl9JLMnp4OJ1iH-CXcdZXlOavt7eSBoM8y7M8Y8KSag/w400-h305/P1050795%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Keep each set of triangles together.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmPRTvbsmcAte5TbiY0fOW23FOf0L4yLgzIahyfbC6UvoVTM-csrKOr_IjSU1SCm7j4ZJygS8ouspie06f_KL_asYwq7HfLf-nL4KqL17SJJjiDdk1rop2uEBhb0JXYzoL9QCXKLYNX3wdvYi4LTEEnhb3nDn7Lk5nP0Wk1bjqFwMgOebAc0x_howkA/s4074/P1050796%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3646" data-original-width="4074" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQmPRTvbsmcAte5TbiY0fOW23FOf0L4yLgzIahyfbC6UvoVTM-csrKOr_IjSU1SCm7j4ZJygS8ouspie06f_KL_asYwq7HfLf-nL4KqL17SJJjiDdk1rop2uEBhb0JXYzoL9QCXKLYNX3wdvYi4LTEEnhb3nDn7Lk5nP0Wk1bjqFwMgOebAc0x_howkA/w400-h358/P1050796%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Step 2 - lay out the stacks so you can see everything. I needed to determine the proportion of warm colors and cool colors -- that is a good color strategy when working with lots of prints that aren't "coordinated".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCl6kn8SyAAsOxbOGjv0kkWgHgaZJs9weKmy_j5PP4PZwXFg_YS4SUEvr-OMoacOPx30j0_kzutPhLgY6VJdibAAZHYSt55Ih4ZOCsRmktl7WZ9M0iTwM27859Fbu86qsr_Mw53PPf1qWbAlY3lH8p1IcPFwIwVNhsdMrvYsx7kvm8smhEy82XFZTX7Q/s5472/P1050798.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCl6kn8SyAAsOxbOGjv0kkWgHgaZJs9weKmy_j5PP4PZwXFg_YS4SUEvr-OMoacOPx30j0_kzutPhLgY6VJdibAAZHYSt55Ih4ZOCsRmktl7WZ9M0iTwM27859Fbu86qsr_Mw53PPf1qWbAlY3lH8p1IcPFwIwVNhsdMrvYsx7kvm8smhEy82XFZTX7Q/w640-h426/P1050798.JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Two stacks of triangles make one horizontal row. I chose two contrasting prints for each row. Starting at the top, my first row is a mostly green print and a mostly red print. For the second row, I start with another red print and chose a contrasting print, a cool color in this case, for the lower side of the row. As I moved down the layout, I repeated the process -- the upper triangles in each row repeat the color (but not the print) of the previous row and the second color used for the lower triangles of that row contrast with it.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As the layout is built, the "zig zags" begin to appear! If they don't, rearrange to get more contrast -- either of value (light vs. dark) or color.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk1aCtASjdkS07ROeGpfi4Iw7ZXgQbXX4uuq7Tf8OEO7Twup1R6KQlc3EDxUK5PCxO_wxdq5dw86gqdKqKuBetfwbPCASKWvaHmfO_a7inmEWaSgwhGX1tfQgX4tXnMkxLbLsG3GiuXbwSlh4twnLdN15v-LQRrCW1bOy5QkE9a87kMJN05opr5GAIg/s3328/P1050801%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3328" data-original-width="3136" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFk1aCtASjdkS07ROeGpfi4Iw7ZXgQbXX4uuq7Tf8OEO7Twup1R6KQlc3EDxUK5PCxO_wxdq5dw86gqdKqKuBetfwbPCASKWvaHmfO_a7inmEWaSgwhGX1tfQgX4tXnMkxLbLsG3GiuXbwSlh4twnLdN15v-LQRrCW1bOy5QkE9a87kMJN05opr5GAIg/w604-h640/P1050801%20(2).JPG" width="604" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Once I was happy with the layout, I took the right edge triangle from each row and cut it in half as shown below. One of these triangles will square off the left end of the row and the other the right end.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyJucrAcF05_BX4BBJ5yTj6b4VXfrsBvQxcLH-7duYuENMa18MnFlvU3iQLF0rJDbeTJUjaF8qj581p3xUL33ROUZ3Nal-tkJW_y7cEpAa8ZWWoIoT8msNqlXpYdPx0t2GrbpOImUvx680z0sJ7i5HMv2iCkeoDOZ-M-cVNXSkvl_l0gGpgVRpRdSkg/s5292/P1050802%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3420" data-original-width="5292" height="259" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMyJucrAcF05_BX4BBJ5yTj6b4VXfrsBvQxcLH-7duYuENMa18MnFlvU3iQLF0rJDbeTJUjaF8qj581p3xUL33ROUZ3Nal-tkJW_y7cEpAa8ZWWoIoT8msNqlXpYdPx0t2GrbpOImUvx680z0sJ7i5HMv2iCkeoDOZ-M-cVNXSkvl_l0gGpgVRpRdSkg/w400-h259/P1050802%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Time to sew! I pieced the units into pairs as below.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwPma9EbeFiBhMTJxX1TEsxwBT4MBv0Dx73betpbTk8GDSTr38oYdIKhvS6oY_KVeh1NTaV24dD_zPd9TZ3PJoAqfTbrJRvZi92iY17vEZY9NJ7HOnkJ2QeYuEljyoN5DAm6cBAC9GAHsAMZ4iPoqz3E3lpJmrBQo2BfdnL18WyBxEnRto8QMamJaTA/s5432/P1050810%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="5432" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVwPma9EbeFiBhMTJxX1TEsxwBT4MBv0Dx73betpbTk8GDSTr38oYdIKhvS6oY_KVeh1NTaV24dD_zPd9TZ3PJoAqfTbrJRvZi92iY17vEZY9NJ7HOnkJ2QeYuEljyoN5DAm6cBAC9GAHsAMZ4iPoqz3E3lpJmrBQo2BfdnL18WyBxEnRto8QMamJaTA/w640-h178/P1050810%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I was lazy and didn't trim the points, just eyeballed aligning them with the "dog-ear" sticking equally out on both ends.</span></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzG5bLIz2mEmzjod8ttzRxQO8jOFnMD6tdnh8Zyw8t_R96LArSPiTgjH2gH1k_9BxA2rpb0lO8VBK9V54Kirzj9LXMiLdmb6xLLL8EogYOyqdgFPJ3D-5Skl9RevRwG_9VujTfO2ZydK_PpVwAnggDOXSuSg2ljTu5GFVh0p_hUQhSdGdXe9_9rMa4Ow/s3368/P1050808%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3318" data-original-width="3368" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzG5bLIz2mEmzjod8ttzRxQO8jOFnMD6tdnh8Zyw8t_R96LArSPiTgjH2gH1k_9BxA2rpb0lO8VBK9V54Kirzj9LXMiLdmb6xLLL8EogYOyqdgFPJ3D-5Skl9RevRwG_9VujTfO2ZydK_PpVwAnggDOXSuSg2ljTu5GFVh0p_hUQhSdGdXe9_9rMa4Ow/w400-h394/P1050808%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The seam allowance should start and end at the intersection of a diagonal edge and a straight edge -- see below. I pressed the seams to one-side and all the seams in a row go the same direction.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5f3ACVVN-ZGY4LeYEtT5W1QtJnZeYSQGypFaKGgRPBPFQ-iGyWBUTIia5k4x9q-O3lQJbMxEXKGAHfLPAoTZzoh9lXC_JNhGR-shp45l8581KeWj6SN2TBUa0_cTl16XfS8YRRM-qujUhHrf0e7VCdAYD2_t-p-AtqKlO1cLa2E5t_WEeRsaiQ_5E9w/s3608/P1050807%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2659" data-original-width="3608" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5f3ACVVN-ZGY4LeYEtT5W1QtJnZeYSQGypFaKGgRPBPFQ-iGyWBUTIia5k4x9q-O3lQJbMxEXKGAHfLPAoTZzoh9lXC_JNhGR-shp45l8581KeWj6SN2TBUa0_cTl16XfS8YRRM-qujUhHrf0e7VCdAYD2_t-p-AtqKlO1cLa2E5t_WEeRsaiQ_5E9w/w400-h295/P1050807%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The rows go together quickly with just 8 seams! My rows are about 32" across and 4 1/4" wide -- 10 rows will be about 42" -- a nice child size piece. The plan is for no borders and a solid color backing.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't even have to figure out how to quilt it since I used this same design several years ago to make a quilt for my daughter's guest room.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://maryhueyquilts.blogspot.com/2016/04/first-quarter-finish-4.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The post on that quilting strategy is HERE.</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIya9S-xxn4SKz8_KRG7G3hCgBEAwp5NaUluvzrMSoa3kszL5wcVDy_f69Da8Yra23AeY-Yo5FGc2Hg1DWCO8c7tyjGuFihaciITdgay_N9qELL_TNxjAbJlDdJJjkc9OL_oXV228IAE8nuULby0h7PJANP7w5xg9JPJco8aYUdj18cc-QJ5Msa-ypw/s3504/P1050805%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3504" data-original-width="3088" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQIya9S-xxn4SKz8_KRG7G3hCgBEAwp5NaUluvzrMSoa3kszL5wcVDy_f69Da8Yra23AeY-Yo5FGc2Hg1DWCO8c7tyjGuFihaciITdgay_N9qELL_TNxjAbJlDdJJjkc9OL_oXV228IAE8nuULby0h7PJANP7w5xg9JPJco8aYUdj18cc-QJ5Msa-ypw/w564-h640/P1050805%20(2).JPG" width="564" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I finished assembling the rows before lunch and couldn't resist sewing "just two" of them together as you see below . . . . . but I stitched the wrong edges so the first and second row (from the top) are flipped. Arghhh!! My "staff" will be ripping that apart later this afternoon so I can correct it?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGDsTbDCNkrOyallrEmILU224A8zaUiODjVEn6OtIfv-KDuETnmB1_jo7Yd_1jyVlonihuPFhm8o5m9wpkTI3MJ4lWDT26rbKCTk1oALdpVRvIhvP6pDLGYPixgpy1bLuTur29-6DVJ1nBTdbz-SenUAlc9ol1ahnXNnCggPUzdvrNnon9kIiBPg3wQ/s3400/P1050811%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3400" data-original-width="2565" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTGDsTbDCNkrOyallrEmILU224A8zaUiODjVEn6OtIfv-KDuETnmB1_jo7Yd_1jyVlonihuPFhm8o5m9wpkTI3MJ4lWDT26rbKCTk1oALdpVRvIhvP6pDLGYPixgpy1bLuTur29-6DVJ1nBTdbz-SenUAlc9ol1ahnXNnCggPUzdvrNnon9kIiBPg3wQ/w482-h640/P1050811%20(2).JPG" width="482" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I have enough fabric to make two of these quilts and my plan is to donate them to a local group that works to improve the birthing experience for women of color.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you want to use this idea with a layer cake that is more coordinated, it seems to me you could sort the prints by light and dark and perhaps color depending on the assortment. If the contrast between two zig-zags is good, a scrappy arrangement of the prints will work. If all the prints in a zig-zag are assorted blues and the next one is assorted oranges, the uniform color families and the contrast of opposite colors makes the zig-zag work. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If I were planning a lap size piece with a layer cake, I would add one set of triangles to each row for a width of about 40" and use thirteen rows for a length of 54". Some quick math tells me that would need about thirty-three 10" squares so one layer cake would do that with a few leftovers. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">For every two triangles added to a row, the row will increase by approximately 8" and adding another complete row to the top will add about 4".</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So I'm another layer cake down with just three more to use up!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I hope you are inspired to use up one of your layer cakes!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Daffodils starting to bloom here!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It's so nice to look out the window and see cheery spots of yellow!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHL2FXAvt-KaXeOGqzyiRL3zBynbyR2Z7vM10ghs_wn1fIhtirqTco1ojTz-tYyt_q5nPiXA9knmfAZv9X7NwfcIbJvUHxN4C6wxdv5bqUnzXtWYzSuaSJ2dW8GEFHxGxJUxhVmnC1J9ZQgax1b7h0Ay2AIr2a63L4DCtZ8wtb0a6t_r5u0t-bZHpiw/s4453/P1050812%20(2).JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3213" data-original-width="4453" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKHL2FXAvt-KaXeOGqzyiRL3zBynbyR2Z7vM10ghs_wn1fIhtirqTco1ojTz-tYyt_q5nPiXA9knmfAZv9X7NwfcIbJvUHxN4C6wxdv5bqUnzXtWYzSuaSJ2dW8GEFHxGxJUxhVmnC1J9ZQgax1b7h0Ay2AIr2a63L4DCtZ8wtb0a6t_r5u0t-bZHpiw/w640-h462/P1050812%20(2).JPG" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Enjoy the first weekend of the new season -- spring or fall!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2971040019183989110.post-91824652584752378812023-03-10T11:21:00.003-08:002023-03-10T11:21:31.440-08:00Something Fun!!!<p></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> Something fun has been happening in my space!?!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT1s56uRUv8qDL0EnQOP2LuA2rw8L_EUbNxH7dGx2vh5qh2ontdzvPjim17yDSFCVIihMcItzk2gbDNs81cWIStkj5Vao_uOxCtuq-WtT15TCK9jUlWCcFy3QDQGj1m55UhcIQuZwRUHBOHxluqesuSYTSN9hLho9865sZJ68PXqXc8Vd48Os7tZj1A/s4514/P1050765%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3044" data-original-width="4514" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIT1s56uRUv8qDL0EnQOP2LuA2rw8L_EUbNxH7dGx2vh5qh2ontdzvPjim17yDSFCVIihMcItzk2gbDNs81cWIStkj5Vao_uOxCtuq-WtT15TCK9jUlWCcFy3QDQGj1m55UhcIQuZwRUHBOHxluqesuSYTSN9hLho9865sZJ68PXqXc8Vd48Os7tZj1A/w400-h270/P1050765%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A couple weeks ago while tidying a shelf of fabric in my stash, a forgotten layer cake surfaced -- it had fallen behind the stack of fabric. I recall ordering it on-line quite some time ago -- the flyer says 2015? So it is properly aged at this point. </span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5gmePrbNJGRy-jcCjR3qMUi9r9ZdDDxZC0yzWl1c9iJ8MsEUYAMmExCZEl1n9-WRSL9LRbXkh7D_EXtaosyM-vjxrKztBf5kiBqGy1KjWEM2ARYNre0yytq2TXu_PzrbKXTMX61KyRfry3HuQlozGKaf_FEOkh8hBbWKmTihKpUN5XGJV35p0tAHIw/s3185/IMG_20230310_111414221.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2218" data-original-width="3185" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn5gmePrbNJGRy-jcCjR3qMUi9r9ZdDDxZC0yzWl1c9iJ8MsEUYAMmExCZEl1n9-WRSL9LRbXkh7D_EXtaosyM-vjxrKztBf5kiBqGy1KjWEM2ARYNre0yytq2TXu_PzrbKXTMX61KyRfry3HuQlozGKaf_FEOkh8hBbWKmTihKpUN5XGJV35p0tAHIw/w400-h279/IMG_20230310_111414221.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It only took me about a minute to realize it would be perfect for a new make -- Exploding Heart! I'm pretty sure I've save every picture of this quilt I've ever seen on Instagram so in January, I bought the pattern!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRLLlBF_8oiTii8ATj7ACKoQdTgbtrca29yZo3lF19tWx2LAs_OsPGCjYZWOBAnMTMntuK9jsxLKNSOap9OKLCMbpMiFjbopu3Ndt4LqYPvLF10P5Z3-Cx-6Ntvu7JwxJ1eeFSJvbUgRLxrctEisnRjRqsbd8YJNlBiw0ybywuLawlqJCOI--CaOxTQ/s3087/IMG_20230310_112017338.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3087" data-original-width="2155" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZRLLlBF_8oiTii8ATj7ACKoQdTgbtrca29yZo3lF19tWx2LAs_OsPGCjYZWOBAnMTMntuK9jsxLKNSOap9OKLCMbpMiFjbopu3Ndt4LqYPvLF10P5Z3-Cx-6Ntvu7JwxJ1eeFSJvbUgRLxrctEisnRjRqsbd8YJNlBiw0ybywuLawlqJCOI--CaOxTQ/w279-h400/IMG_20230310_112017338.jpg" width="279" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I found the instructions to be excellent (and as a pattern writer myself, I don't say that very often). Laura of Slice of Pi Quilts is the author and she gives instructions for rotary cutting and using a "fabric cutter" machine. That impressed me even though I don't own one of those. </span></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Since I was starting with a layer cake, I cut each piece into 5" squares until I had the number needed which only used 33 of the layer cake's 10" squares. I used a muckled-up assortment of white-on-white prints from my stash for the background and only cut the number specified for the "larger" background square. I waited to cut the "smaller" background squares until I had trimmed all the pieced units -- since my colored squares were smaller than the pattern specified, my pieced units came out smaller and I needed to adjust that size accordingly.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZBlCMSlgbFA1CeepUrd8CEwvr-uSQa1Morux6TfykGGLLQOCs_ICdc73enW0AsraJ8E8oeKQ_h2jmveAP60V2z8Zsgt_4pE0CFauwZuMwA4nR-odNUi7IEOJgiUqg31x0pkDbw-YB3SadGgX-39s4m7xNF8xeNzNsewfbf-nkb6_MswvekfH-5jZog/s5472/P1050763.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVZBlCMSlgbFA1CeepUrd8CEwvr-uSQa1Morux6TfykGGLLQOCs_ICdc73enW0AsraJ8E8oeKQ_h2jmveAP60V2z8Zsgt_4pE0CFauwZuMwA4nR-odNUi7IEOJgiUqg31x0pkDbw-YB3SadGgX-39s4m7xNF8xeNzNsewfbf-nkb6_MswvekfH-5jZog/w400-h266/P1050763.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;">Does that make sense?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">You could also use four 5" charm packs of fabrics -- they wouldn't need to be the same collection but could be four different collections from the same designer since I've noticed many designers use a color palette over and over. And it would be a lot of fun using scraps from your favorite designer -- Kaffe Fassett or Anna Marie Horner?? And four packs equals more squares than you need to begin, so you could eliminate the ones you didn't like as much?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">At one point, a line needs to be drawn across the back of triangle sets -- make sure that line is perpendicular to the first seam!! I lined up the "5 line" on my ruler with the stitching every time to be sure my units were easier to square up during the final trimming step!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5pEbUqBvD_djhsZsdjU4XpVRfJAuDRr7bXDXzLEC_zCg_FeFhFq-r0M9CTHJxiTQWbljKIe82vdXr9sLJB9XF9zaeyt3ZuC1KpTPd9KYodg-EbFUwFHD_o6jcGqd4BQ0GB5BW-RYW6BEC26bCse1Fm2fn7_chOWjmWNrIXIuz3YHcexMd9kxthu7bjQ/s5472/P1050761.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5pEbUqBvD_djhsZsdjU4XpVRfJAuDRr7bXDXzLEC_zCg_FeFhFq-r0M9CTHJxiTQWbljKIe82vdXr9sLJB9XF9zaeyt3ZuC1KpTPd9KYodg-EbFUwFHD_o6jcGqd4BQ0GB5BW-RYW6BEC26bCse1Fm2fn7_chOWjmWNrIXIuz3YHcexMd9kxthu7bjQ/w400-h266/P1050761.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Every day last week, I worked on one group of the units -- since I try not to spend more than 45 minutes with my "nose-down" at the sewing machine these days, it was a perfect work flow. I could do all the piecing and pressing for one group in less than an hour.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> I knew I wouldn't enjoy trimming the units to a uniform size - I never do. Since I cut patchwork with templates and have pieced for so many years, my work doesn't need trimmed. But I was determined to follow Laura's directions faithfully. My finished units are 1/2" smaller than the pattern specified since I started out with slightly smaller squares and so my quilt top will be a bit smaller.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Happily, I was going to a retreat last weekend and only taking handwork, no sewing machine. I took all the units with me and trimmed them in small batches, working on it for 15 minutes at a time to minimize shoulder strain that is now one of the perks of rotary cutting for me?!?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3EeZzJpD-004vfVTdSwkG4_Efp71SbxtyU3GFwlNw3jT4CADaXMzSMO00448Xzn_-G02sVW3ws5ugLRje8j-5-bBbQbTjZVmljJPVBhuYIhTJ7It7oUbHdC6sY0MrOVYMR4hRnh8AU5Duu516jRc536CHcmQOBm0CJJ8LxG3jUk4URRKVyD745uCkJw/s4534/P1050768%20(2).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3575" data-original-width="4534" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3EeZzJpD-004vfVTdSwkG4_Efp71SbxtyU3GFwlNw3jT4CADaXMzSMO00448Xzn_-G02sVW3ws5ugLRje8j-5-bBbQbTjZVmljJPVBhuYIhTJ7It7oUbHdC6sY0MrOVYMR4hRnh8AU5Duu516jRc536CHcmQOBm0CJJ8LxG3jUk4URRKVyD745uCkJw/w400-h315/P1050768%20(2).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">If you are a "trimmer", you already know that it's important to "center" the ruler correctly. In this case, notice that the "4" line is matching the left side "corners" and the diagonal line is aligned perfectly. If you don't take the time to do this, when you assemble the units, corners will not align no matter what you do!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I came home with all the units trimmed units ready to assemble into the top!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I emptied the design wall and started to work through the pattern, one row at a time. It only took about 3 rows for me to see this was going to be wonderful!! And when I got to row 5, it was hard to stop.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjov4V5S7Z92-Nh1wQ19z2EKFJ2BSoDrHe1GaCbcqVgljw6mR3nNDDctilv4TADGr1__NTAIuK22-DUsuNUNBJuYn4EsIGkn-jFsuN8uXJ-LCGP1N42ZdRkXVgwWI69OiFfawo_xClYm1CHK9F0m-KEWGcvgzuGPnNd7tYPnaFBiVRpkYloHmE1ffHD8g/s4160/IMG_20230306_103305_01.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3120" data-original-width="4160" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjov4V5S7Z92-Nh1wQ19z2EKFJ2BSoDrHe1GaCbcqVgljw6mR3nNDDctilv4TADGr1__NTAIuK22-DUsuNUNBJuYn4EsIGkn-jFsuN8uXJ-LCGP1N42ZdRkXVgwWI69OiFfawo_xClYm1CHK9F0m-KEWGcvgzuGPnNd7tYPnaFBiVRpkYloHmE1ffHD8g/w640-h480/IMG_20230306_103305_01.jpg" width="640" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All week, I've been assembling two or three rows and adding them to the design wall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It just keeps getting better and better!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Today, I pieced the last row and started thinking about whether to add a border. The pattern doesn't call for it, but it will upsize my version a bit and I like the idea of a white border to "float" the design. Inspiration arrived in the form of "incorporated" borders which was a favorite tactic of my long-time mentor, Mary Ellen Hopkins. Piecing the border will blend in with the "muckled-up" background better, so I cut enough rectangles to add a 2" finished border. Since I haven't finished sewing the rows together, I'll add rectangles to the ends of each row. A row of rectangles will make the top and bottom borders. You can see them in place on the design wall (top edge and right edge).</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpSLrN5AIlgGDam2PUzW8HvhJAQOT29FsOwWxT4xd88gibQoymx1MRG1sIW7OVdUDGTJLplVM1eHbrFFawsJDUqWysW1tdps64ubM5VoXf5dHHt9XHzLL6_Jfw9kkkiSCrq_QrslksuAltFn_TS2-myPww1551EYuhzaC2f_umJawq9WKWtQHKgDfXw/s3097/IMG_20230310_110833741%20(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3097" data-original-width="2303" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFpSLrN5AIlgGDam2PUzW8HvhJAQOT29FsOwWxT4xd88gibQoymx1MRG1sIW7OVdUDGTJLplVM1eHbrFFawsJDUqWysW1tdps64ubM5VoXf5dHHt9XHzLL6_Jfw9kkkiSCrq_QrslksuAltFn_TS2-myPww1551EYuhzaC2f_umJawq9WKWtQHKgDfXw/w476-h640/IMG_20230310_110833741%20(1).jpg" width="476" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I won't get the top completely assembled today (avoiding aching shoulders and neck) but I'm already envisioning a stripped fabric for the binding and studying my collection of pictures of other quilters versions for quilting inspiration.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I can see myself making this quilt again!! The only thing I would do different is to cut the pieces with one of Marti Michell's Basic Template sets -- A, B, or T maybe? My unit size might be different than the pattern and so the quilt would be a different size, but I wouldn't have to trim any of the units. And there would be no wasted fabric. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I could have used B-9 and B-11 to cut the triangles for the size in the pattern, getting 4 large triangles and 8 small triangles from a 10" layer cake square for the 72" square top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">I could also use these templates with 5" charm square packs.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLmNPxZR62EChe3iC3XnaV_m-8dAiexCR35C_RZwCy6sZUKWay0LTnCfbV6y-mov9r2BXyEJ-PBbmKjpyVgyRrSEOPWUNoUoIFMyuB0rog_WggXorkb9rGLunCCZqwnOgDyjFZB05rJmyzjG-FwpNT0rr2Q7gSEOWAylOjQ7Glk-hd1CJM_MKJRb-n8Q/s3855/IMG_20230310_111425843.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2107" data-original-width="3855" height="219" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLmNPxZR62EChe3iC3XnaV_m-8dAiexCR35C_RZwCy6sZUKWay0LTnCfbV6y-mov9r2BXyEJ-PBbmKjpyVgyRrSEOPWUNoUoIFMyuB0rog_WggXorkb9rGLunCCZqwnOgDyjFZB05rJmyzjG-FwpNT0rr2Q7gSEOWAylOjQ7Glk-hd1CJM_MKJRb-n8Q/w400-h219/IMG_20230310_111425843.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Use template B-8 for the background squares.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtql1ArF8c_5pceFajUVHrObqq2ORk6TKVKbI2SU7VLZz1Imqx77_LfpdSxq4gQFGa6I1AQ-LZTE1H3hZUiF3T5dGjqYlx-r-Nqtpwm5zIONRjm6La2qQsD_RUod5xW5eLfoqIfk3GivW5P221DDMQ86PHPQCO5GyoLXHz4HGs6v-JZsMX7yd4Vf_BCA/s3751/IMG_20230310_111519036.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2171" data-original-width="3751" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtql1ArF8c_5pceFajUVHrObqq2ORk6TKVKbI2SU7VLZz1Imqx77_LfpdSxq4gQFGa6I1AQ-LZTE1H3hZUiF3T5dGjqYlx-r-Nqtpwm5zIONRjm6La2qQsD_RUod5xW5eLfoqIfk3GivW5P221DDMQ86PHPQCO5GyoLXHz4HGs6v-JZsMX7yd4Vf_BCA/w400-h231/IMG_20230310_111519036.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Others sizes would be easy to achieve using a different group of the templates.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using these templates (below) from Set A (1, 2, and 4) would make a 54" quilt top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82Ld-TDyejSXr_0QP4ppRhgRbi2hO47BYBS6-DtK_psZ522EU8lAf7nFj6UiSOCP-eGUgctDr4Tn1vPkupypPZY1B8kQmv3jpPXVU99kB_m6fI-_Cr2l3L7GQDrjdO7lZuwpyOhPnsjIcoZwNUgGtKfzijKapfwxsS4qFS1_b_PBGtLnxWvCWufBnNQ/s3728/IMG_20230310_111625075.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1810" data-original-width="3728" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh82Ld-TDyejSXr_0QP4ppRhgRbi2hO47BYBS6-DtK_psZ522EU8lAf7nFj6UiSOCP-eGUgctDr4Tn1vPkupypPZY1B8kQmv3jpPXVU99kB_m6fI-_Cr2l3L7GQDrjdO7lZuwpyOhPnsjIcoZwNUgGtKfzijKapfwxsS4qFS1_b_PBGtLnxWvCWufBnNQ/w400-h194/IMG_20230310_111625075.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Using the smaller templates from Set B (10, 11, & 13) would make about a 52" quilt top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLYpBCDiRRpqlMzz11yi4ppz4JpZVRBMQ9Z6Hd2oZiqaLwbfyop_vbcqcsIKfMnPXGq8TsOyzxZHFSioIkD9rGnMDmYWzxD4q-EKcPQpOqF9Nm3RH8PcaJQhRe4F0LGBp6t-pKZLfuZ7AYGZGb8SosZ5eiaO_8ouGtLjaRi0bmlfg1-lOjncj62stTg/s3831/IMG_20230310_111742426.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2028" data-original-width="3831" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVLYpBCDiRRpqlMzz11yi4ppz4JpZVRBMQ9Z6Hd2oZiqaLwbfyop_vbcqcsIKfMnPXGq8TsOyzxZHFSioIkD9rGnMDmYWzxD4q-EKcPQpOqF9Nm3RH8PcaJQhRe4F0LGBp6t-pKZLfuZ7AYGZGb8SosZ5eiaO_8ouGtLjaRi0bmlfg1-lOjncj62stTg/w400-h211/IMG_20230310_111742426.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And the smaller templates from Set A (3, 4, and 6) would make a 38" quilt top</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6j-0N7SXZJcxobmxhaecllrVzEfS-D3Jc-fqMcks6SAunKY5zAfHK6L3-rwQtZHrKd7GSmzWQOneElVhYzhybAC20yL8ZUUjVn9EIjH0jYbTt93U6fygaQHMK86jyv4dyKg5wSbFO6L8XViBOriWedJUUplSI4XtaTzd-Ccce843gnQNG6XmO3x7Olg/s3844/IMG_20230310_111903350.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2167" data-original-width="3844" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6j-0N7SXZJcxobmxhaecllrVzEfS-D3Jc-fqMcks6SAunKY5zAfHK6L3-rwQtZHrKd7GSmzWQOneElVhYzhybAC20yL8ZUUjVn9EIjH0jYbTt93U6fygaQHMK86jyv4dyKg5wSbFO6L8XViBOriWedJUUplSI4XtaTzd-Ccce843gnQNG6XmO3x7Olg/w400-h225/IMG_20230310_111903350.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I don't own Set T (that's odd?) but looking at it on frommarti.com, using 102, 103, & 104 would result in a 90" quilt top.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wouldn't this make a great graduation quilt? </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I might set out the templates for a 54" throw size and cut from scraps as I tidy up the overflowing scrap basket next to my cutting table?!? Hmmm??</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I love it when one idea morphs into another!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Are you ready for the change of seasons? I brought out some spring quilts to change the hangings around the house this coming week. We haven't had much of a winter -- no snow to speak of, so I'm tired of the brown weather and ready for lots of green and pink!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Talk soon!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Mary</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">P.S. Let me know if you are rushing out to your local quilt shop to get the pattern!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></div><br /><p></p>Mary Hueyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09930632913728046516noreply@blogger.com1