Can't wait to see this finished Annis - it looks amazing.

Wonderful colors. I'm really looking forward to see this layout finihed

WOW - oh this is going to be soooo goood

My temporary design wall is up and my stars are in place. I looked around for a spot where I could close the door so I could take my time with the layout and I found the almost perfect wall in the guest room. I don't know why I hadn't noticed it before since that corner used to be where I did all of my sewing, and my ironing board was in a different room and my cutting table was in the kitchen. I guess I got lots of exercise back then! I love these flannel backed tablecloths. I used Command Strips across the top, blue painter's tape down the sides and safety pins to hold the 2 tablecloths together. No nails or tacks needed. In my younger days I would take the bed apart and place it against a wall for a clearer view, but then I would have to figure out what to do with the stuff under the bed! My 6' ladder needs to stay hidden. I've had it for quite a few years now because noone but me knows where it is.



My blocks are now cut into triangles and the squares are cut for the final border. I layered 2 blocks right sides together for cutting to make sure that I would get the proper amount of mirror images. The strip sets aren't perfect but I will just give that bias edge a little tug if needed to lines up the seams. And when I go to the final assembly there are no seams to match except where they are against the stars or the final border. The 14 extra blocks are left uncut just in case I need to use some of them to replace blocks that don't work. My next job is to separate the blocks for the 4 quadrants of the quilt and hope that I am going to like the different looks on the opposite corners as I will be using the mirror images. If not I will need to make another 86 blocks and I really don't want to do that!

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Annis great job! Love what your quilter did.

Thanks for the good view of the quilting.

I am constantly amazed at the beautiful quilts that everybody is producing. Congratulations everybody they are beautiful!

Both the quilt top and the quilting are beautiful. Thanks for sharing. Thanks for the inspiration. Lois Bruno

Clicking two times on the photos shows the beautiful stitching! Annis you and your quilter make a great team!

Beautiful job of quilting. Congratulations.

My first quilt is now quilted. Here is a peak at one corner of the front and back. I told my longarm quilter what I wanted and let her do the work. Now I have to decide on binding. I was going to use that light green stripe but think it needs to be more colorful. Maybe I will go with a scrappy binding using the brighter colors in the quilt.



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Teresa, love your block. Have fun in Des Moines.

Shirley35 wrote:

LOL!! I know, Shirley!

The label pattern will print out 2" x 2". You can use your printer to make it larger by changing the scale on your printer. If you print the pattern out at 200% you will get a
4" x 4" size, which is what most of us used.

Hope that helps!

Thanks for the link, but I had tried to enlarge and print but could only get it a little larger. Shirley35
PS you know what a whiz I am on the computer, just enough to get in trouble. My guild is having a quilt show this week-end and I have to take my quilts in today.