Thursday, January 8, 2009

Hey, Belinda, over here!

Belinda wrote a wonderful tutorial for these little stars today and I stopped what I was doing to make one. I have never worked with anything so tiny! What fun. I had to make narrow seams, which was odd for me, and I worry about them coming apart later, so I am going to play around with it and see if I can make bigger ones.
I sorted my scraps from the cherry quilt into red and green, so I see a Christmas quilt somewhere in my future.

Thanks for the tutorial, Belinda! She has been making these cute little stars for a while out of really bright fabrics and promised a tutorial on them a while back, so I have been waiting for it.

This freestyle sort of sewing is something I have not done and would like to explore. Jacquie has started Project Improv and we are going to encourage each other to quit outside the lines and make a couple charity quilts along the way. I think I will make a block for that now while I'm feeling so inspired! Thanks, guys!

4 comments:

  1. ....twirling...twirling.....doing the happy dance...clapping hands....!!
    Your little star is FAB!!! You just go get down with your bad self!!!

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  2. They are great! Smaller blocks are definitely harder to work with. It requires much more precision.

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  3. just found your blog (through jacquie's improv) and i LOVE your cherries quilt. so cute! and this looks like its going to be a great christmas quilt. can't wait to see it.

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  4. I was going to try my hand at these stars this weekend too! They're so cute in her header.

    You did a great job! Someone once told me, whenever you make a sample block, make it with Christmas fabrics, so eventually you can put together a Christmas quilt.

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