YEA!!! to all the BOM-ettes! Less than 2 1/2 weeks til the next set of instructions! And the end of January! Which as usual, is a miserable weather month!

Maggie in E. Central Illinois, looking at -11F, but I'm still going to my retreat! YEA!!!!!

You may not belive this...I can hardly belive it myself, I have started the BOM in red/whites too :shock: It may not end up the size intended, but I will sew it as large as my red/white fabrics allows it to be without buying new fabric. I will post a picture when its done...next week I guess.

Proud to be a Bomette....Hanne-grete

Applause! Applause! Applause! to allof you that have gotten their feathered star made! They are ALL gorgeous! I loved looking through show and tell!

Yahoo! Lois!!! Your block and posting skills are off the top. You have the beginnings of a beautiful quilt. I just finished and I will be posting my block asap.

posting the photo successfully was almost as much a sense of accomplishment as finishing the block... almost. lol.

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so how do I go about showing a photo? Will my cell phone photo work? or do I need a digital camera?

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We had Bee at my house last night and I showed all of them my block they oood and awwed so it was a nice compliment. Most people don't realize the work involved until you tell them there are almost 160 pieces! (158).

February will be fun but I'll be on vacation when the March block comes out so I'll be sad to miss it. I'm sure I can still work on my Sept-Dec 2008 blocks in the meantime.

It is quite cold here, we may not get out of the single digits till next week. After being in Florida last weekend, it's a hard adjustment, my sewing room eases the pain of the weather.

Have a good day all.

denise

I spent an hour or two looking at everyones jan. bom they are all beautiful, I love everyones chosen fabrics.I got my Jan Bom done,its up on show & tell. Thanks goes out to Sue Garman and Margo for the great lessons. This was a fun paper pieceing block. I'm ready for Feb. lessons! Kathy

Mine isn't done yet, but I'm working on it like Lois did, sewing the same seam on all similar pieces at the same time. Between shows yesterday I got three pieces sewn on four similar strips. Hope to get some more done today.
Frances in Austin where it's supposed to be close to freezing but I don't think the cold front came as far south as they thought it would.

I finished mine yesterday!

I took a class at my guild on feathered stars the first year I started quilting and I only did 2 of the points. I did not know what a feathered star or paper piecing was when I signed up for the class and I was definately not ready for it at the time. It turned me off of paper piecing. I finally got myself to try paper piecing again last year and did a quilt for a LQS. But I had not attempted another feathered star until this week.

I have to stay that the directions made this one so much easier. I actually enjoyed doing it.

I'm so pleased with myself to have finished my block. I took it to my workplace, but they just weren't impressed. I showed it to some quilting friends of mine, and their responses were that they didn't do paper-piecing. ho-hum. Oh well, I'm doing this project for myself, and it will be the first quilt I have ever kept for myself, too. (I'm always giving quilts away.) One thing that helped me was that I worked doing all the same type of blocks together as assembly-line so that it worked out that I was placing the same pieces on four similar paper-strips, essentially sewing the same seam on all four blocks one after another, then waited to clip threads beween the four sewn pieces at the same time, and then trimmed, then pressed, then lined up the same four for the next tiny scrap of material. Working that way, it did save me some time and "thinking backwards" brain activity! Thank you so much for this pattern. I can hardly wait for February's block.

Thanks Margo. Sue Garman was behind the inspiration for that block. If you go way back on Sue's blog, you will see a post about the feathered star. I believe her example has a pieced center like that. At the time I read Sue's post, I was working on a simple wall hanging with a star center. I wanted to jazz it up a bit so I found that block in my EQ program and paper pieced it. I would have never been able to do it without paper piecing. I didn't intend for the block to have a + effect. By the time I realized my error, I didn't have enough fabric to redo.

Although, I had pieced the similar star, Sue's instructions for the January BOM really helped. For my star, I couldn't see how the various segments fit together and ended up having set in seams. Sue's instructions made putting the sections together a snap.