My pic I think looks how I feel, a bit scrambled. We got back home today after fire evacuation notice. I got a little sewing therapy in today, yay!
Good to be home and I hope
others are okay.

My pic I think looks how I feel, a bit scrambled. We got back home today after fire evacuation notice. I got a little sewing therapy in today, yay!
Good to be home and I hope
others are okay.

My pic I think looks how I feel, a bit scrambled. We got back home today after fire evacuation notice. I got a little sewing therapy in today, yay!
Good to be home and I hope
others are okay.

I like your idea! It is really hard to get a true replication of your idea until you cut fabric. At some point you just have to 'go for it'! jo

Love it!

clarkleigh, love your quilt... just beautiful...

The map of the wildfires near San Francisco this morning shows the Livermore area with 3 fires near it, about 5 miles away. I hope that Alex and family are OK. Kathy

I was using stash that I inherited from my Mom after she had to go into a home because of dementia. I enjoyed making the blocks, but had a very hard time putting them together with florals from the stash. I then came across some turtle fabric. The light bulb came on!! A baby quilt! So I changed how I pieced the blocks, using only solids and saved the white for using with the star points. My piecing has really improved, thanks to tips from Alex and others. I’m very pleased with the quilt top. Looking forward to the next project, as I will use the stash to make a quilt for my Mom.

I know it has a brown overall vibe, but this reminds me of looking at your blocks with a background of the night sky with stars. Great job!! Love this set! jo

quiltdew wrote:
Quiltdew, I don't feel quarter square triangle cuts are best for on point block corners due to where the bias will end up when sewn to the block. This diagram I made up hopefully will show you why. Hope this helps you.
HelenW

quiltdew wrote:
6” blocks set on point will finish at about 8.5”. The triangles that go around the block are different sizes Depending on whether you cut HST or QST.

This explains how to figure it out:

bbquiltmaker.blogspot.com/2020/08/simple-math-for-quilters.html

sewskeel wrote:
The finish size of my 6" pieced block with triangles on four sides is 9.5 inches (set on-point).

If you have more to cut, try starching your fabric very heavily. If you have not previously washed it, this may cause it to shrink a bit. So don't starch those you have already cut. For those you might try staystitching along the edge of the fabric within the 1/4" seam allowance. Go very slowly, as you don't want this process to stretch it even more. I am not working with that fabric, so my suggestions are based on my work with other fabrics and I am not sure if it will help you with this one. You could try one or two and see. Also, remember Alex's admonishment to not iron over the bias edge. When joining them to the block, put the bias side down on the machine bed . Be sure to pin so that whatever fullness has now been created on your bias side is equally distributed over the length of the seam. Good Luck!

They are all nice and look great, but I am partial to stars and I have to vote for them. But also from a design standpoint, I feel they give the design the most "grounding". This combination gets a bit busy, the congregation of the same color/print to create the star around the block seems to bring a bit of calm to the design. If it will not waste fabric, which it looks like your are cutting the same shapes, you can try each on your design wall and see which you like best with the real fabric. Have fun deciding!
jo