I thought you were just making one block for now!!

It's fabulous, such a beautiful quilt

I persevered and finished the feathered star quilt top today. The outer border was quite a challenge. Actually the whole quilt was a challenge. I only used paper for the center block and the HST's. The rest of the pieces were large enough I decided not to paper piece so I could finish it faster. I'm not sure how much faster as it required some careful piecing, and the occasional use of a seam ripper during the final assembly. It finished at about 43" square. I'm thinking of having it quilted by check. I know, I have a longarm machine but I do mostly computer quilting on it as I've yet to take the time to learn free motion quilting and it would be very time consuming to do this one by computer.

Annis--What a great way to do a block! Hum...give away of corners sounds good to me!

Perfect piecing and lovely fabric.
Anne

Annis that piecing is really clever. I think even I could do that (I am not known for my precision piecing!)

I really like your block and piecing - I purchased indigo a couple years ago for a Dutch tile quilt, I think it'd look great in lady of the lake blocks.
Barb

Nice block Annis and clever piecing

Very clever Annis! Thanks for sharing.

geneva

Pretty slick !! Great idea !

Well, I got a little side-tracked. I did finish my 128 HST's first though. I had this stack of layer cakes that was waiting for an idea and I found it last night. This version of Lady of the Lake finishes at 10". I drew 3 evenly spaced diagonal lines on the light square starting 2-5/8" from the corner and sewed on both sides of the line. That is all of the sewing required for each block. The small triangles are cut oversized (3-5/8" on the short side) and were trimmed to 3" square. The large triangle was trimmed to 8" square. For now I will be abandoning this project until some others are completed. I just wanted to make 1 block for a sample to follow when I do the lap size quilt. The extra on the 2 corners will be saved for a future miniature quilt. I have lots of saves for miniature quilts. Maybe I should package them and give them away.

Well, I DO intend to go in person to her shop when I am in Ontario this summer, near the end of June. I told the lady that I would rather wait until I could go in person, since it is a real treat to see such stuff, and she has a new location, which I am looking forward to seeing.
I kinda-sorta-wanna break my resolution then. It will have been half a year.

I'll need to practice on that mystery quilt, won't I?

Watch out Terrie. We quilters have a tough time wittnessing such will power. We will continue to try to tempt you in an effort to feel better about our own weaknesses.

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You're going to regret it. It will chew away at you until you go back and click. KF does that to you