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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:47:22 +0100, Johanna Gibson
wrote: Hello, My favourite nephew will be 18 next June, and I'd like to make him a Lone Star quilt, queen size. Have any of you here made one, and whose directions did you like best? I'd like to do strip-piecing instead of hand piecing a thousand diamonds, and I'd like the star bit to stay on top of the bed, not hang over the sides. Any suggestions or advice? Having done it both ways, I prefer the strip piecing method. You just have to keep organized when you do it. The final size of the star is wholey dependent on how good you are at maths. It looks like fairly easy math. That just makes you confident, so then you very confidently make everything too large or too small. My first blazing star was supposed to be a lone star, then I boggled the math and had to make it bigger. So: Do the math at least twice, and then draw out a point to make sure you have it right. Keep strictly organized. keep your blocks of strips seperate always. Pin or box your rows for each point as you go, then double check before you sew. When you lay them out look hard. Depending on your color scheme it can be really easy to miss that row that is turned round. HTH NightMist -- "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains." -Mary Pettibone Poole |
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Kellie:
It wants to be the center medallion for a bed quilt for my bed. A few rounds of those gorgeous fabrics will go nicely with our rug! Need my snail? PAT Kellie J. Berger wrote: http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very quickly!!! just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all) everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt or just hang on the wall. |
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AHA!!!!!!!!! You are back trying to give me competition are you? Keeping me
on my toes once again? Hehehheheee Matching your rug, eh? Butterfly (I don't need a 'reason' to beg---gotta keep practicing--one of these days I'll get promoted : ) "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message news:kFyte.35765$rb6.30069@lakeread07... Kellie: It wants to be the center medallion for a bed quilt for my bed. A few rounds of those gorgeous fabrics will go nicely with our rug! Need my snail? PAT Kellie J. Berger wrote: http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very quickly!!! just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all) everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt or just hang on the wall. |
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have your snail but as i said, 'tis mine all mine grin it wants to
be in my bedroom, just not sure how or where yet! while it decides i will plug away at the other WIPs that are crying in the corner. -- Kellie kjbeanne at yahoo dot com www.kjbeanne.com/kellie.htm "Pat in Virginia" wrote in message news:kFyte.35765$rb6.30069@lakeread07... Kellie: It wants to be the center medallion for a bed quilt for my bed. A few rounds of those gorgeous fabrics will go nicely with our rug! Need my snail? PAT Kellie J. Berger wrote: http://www.kayewood.com/catalogfiles/17.html went together very quickly!!! just have to figure out what to do with it now :~) (as in finishing touches, not to whom it will go.. tis mine all mine y'all) everything is printed on the interfacing. you pick your colors, cut your strips, iron/tack them on, sew, flip, iron trim and go to the next row... http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/berger...&.dnm=c579.jpg here it is partially done (what i finished in class) I have the whole square now. not sure if it wants to be a center medalion for a bed quilt or just hang on the wall. |
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Yes!!!!!! I have this book and am dying to try it, but my son's quilt is
screaming at me!!!! Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii "Sandy Foster" wrote in message ... In article . net, Pati, that would be Jan Krentz's book. Her instructions for strip piecing this kind of quilt are excellent! I've made two Lone Star quilts, and the one I did with her instructions was much easier than the first one. Both of them are pictured he http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1/lonestarquilts.html; it's the second one down that came from Jan's book. HTH -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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In article . net,
"A&T" wrote: Yes!!!!!! I have this book and am dying to try it, but my son's quilt is screaming at me!!!! Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii Isn't that one of the nice parts about quilting, Tricia? The fact that quilts will wait until we can get to them, unlike children's clothes that will be outgrown. G When you do get time to try that Lone Star, you'll love it! -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 AKA Dame Sandy, Minister of Education |
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