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Stars upon thars

Posted on March 6, 2012 by | Comments Off on Stars upon thars

flying geese, aka star points stash party stars stash party stars

Feeling a bit guilty for having lost pattern 2, I sewed up blocks 2 and 3 right away. It’s very quick and easy now that all my star points are ready and waiting.

 

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Star points

Posted on March 5, 2012 by | Comments Off on Star points

011 016 014 024 010

Since all of my stash party blocks will use the same star points around the outside, I am planning to get those pieces ready to go all at once. Yesterday I cut out what I needed for all the flying geese units and am hoping to sew those up today and cut the remaining white pieces. I lost my February pattern but they kindly gave me a replacement at the shop on Saturday along with the pattern for March. We had a little show and tell of our 2011 stash party quilts and it was wonderful to see a few of the other quilts. One lady made 3-D pinwheels for her quilt as the setting squares for her sashing and those were just darling.

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Template marathon

Posted on March 4, 2012 by | Comments Off on Template marathon
templates: done!

I’ve had several long sessions working on the templates for the Farmer’s Wife quilt. There are just over 100 and I’ve done all of them except the basket handle because I haven’t decided if I’m going to do hand or machine applique. The next class meets Tuesday, I can’t wait!

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Templates

Posted on February 26, 2012 by | Comments Off on Templates
farmer's wife templates

The Farmer’s Wife quilt uses a large number of templates and I’ve been hard at work carefully tracing and cutting. Most of them are used many times but for 111 blocks you still need a ginormous stack of templates. I’ve made a pretty good dent and it won’t be much longer before they are all done.

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Pinning on a table

Posted on February 22, 2012 by | Comments Off on Pinning on a table
pinning on a table top

I’ve wanted to learn how to pin my quilts on a table for some time now. The kitchen table is a nice size but I wasn’t having luck finding a protective cover the right size to prevent pins from scratching the wood. I also have one of those Rubbermaid tables with the folding legs but had a hard time finding clamps large enough to fasten the quilt to it. It took a few hardware stores but I finally collected enough large clamps for the job and gave it a go with my Stash Party BOM from last year. It went really well and I think this technique will be easier on my back and knees and with a little practice I should start to get better results than pinning on the carpeted floor as I had been doing.

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