Rosemary, I like the whizzy bit too! But credit needs to go to Mary Kay Davis for the editing and adding that.
I am still working on a PC, and the folks who work behind the scenes at ARJJ all use MACs, so my video editing is not compatible with their stuff so I am at their mercy!!

Great video Margo , Like the whizzy bit before the introduction too - but sometime I can be entertained by the simpliest of things

In case you missed the TQS Newsletter today, the video is finally posted in my classroom.

[url]learn/classrooms/[/url]

This is an exciting development. Thank you, Margo!

I'll check with John to see about adding links. I'm still working on the editing thing!

I have enough information of what I need to do now, but I really shouldn't touch doing anything about it before Monday anyway, seeing as there is a Very Important Party happening on Sunday afternoon, and now I have started tidying things up for it it is almost turning into a spring clean as well, particularly for the lounge, hall, kitchen & bathroom (at least I can shut the doors on the bedrooms & sewing room - although I will probably be in & out of the sewing room, there is no way I can get it cleaned & tidied as well)

That said, it is obviously something that would be of use to be able to find easily, & if you do do one of your videos, if it were possible to add a collection of links to the various different methods that have been covered for it all together that would make it easier for everyone else who is interested. As I understand it most of Alex's early classroom videos are no longer of the right format, and either need to be re-formatted or (most likely) re-done, both of which takes time and probably keeps getting pushed back by other projects.

Rosemary, how soon do you need it? I can try to do a video for you to post in my classroom, but I have no idea how long it would take for John or Mary Kay to edit it and put it on the site.

Thanks both of you. The bloominworkshop link gives me what I was after. And Rita your notes are just what I only vaguely remembered watching, the combination of the two sets of information I am sure will get me to where I want to be.

Rosemary I took these notes at the time - I am not sure if they make sense, even to me! But maybe they will to you:

Mark out a square the size you want the finished Le Moine star to be. Then use a compass and stretch it from the outside corner to the centre (that's your distance). Now use the compass to mark 2 points from all 4 sides/ 8 registration marks) then join them up.

I don't remember which programme Alex did the demo on does anybody else?

This is not Alex's technique but maybe it will help: http://bloominworkshop.wordpress.com/2011/09/01/how-to-draft-a-lemoyne-star/


This is like Alex did, but it doesn't use a compass like she did: http://books.google.com/books?id=ZEW_HLdIDv4C&pg=PA54&lpg=PA54&dq=how+to+draft+a+lemoyne+star&source=bl&ots=w2zPzZWgnF&sig=FIg5OEgJ3rbZhj1Ape17bOKw-x0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W_1dUe-4K4Xs9ATmuoCoBQ&ved=0CDgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=how_to_draft_a_lemoyne_star&f=false

I'm sure that in one of the show's Alex demonstrates how to draw up the Leymoyne star -I know that if you start with a 9-patch it won't work. Any further suggestions?

ditto... now if i could actually do it the way you tell me instead of veering off on a tangent at the slightest whim - things might actually turn out as was planned

Me too!

Thanks so much Alex. Here's hoping. Just a thankyou for all the things I have learned over the years. I'm a much better quilter for them.