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01-22-2013, 12:29 PM

#2591

Teddybear Lady

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Whitepine your stars are beautiful!

01-22-2013, 12:30 PM

#2592

nygal

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Wow..wow...Whitepine, that is going to be a beautiful quilt!! The blocks look gorgeous!! I love turquoise.

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01-22-2013, 03:24 PM

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meanmom

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Twoxover, I emailed Carol Daok to ask how much fabric to make all of the backgrounds the same. She didn't know how much to buy. I bought 7 yards for my background and had enough with a little left. I can't wait to see your blocks. Anael your Alabama is beautiful. Keep up the good work. I look forward to seeing more
Pat

01-22-2013, 03:32 PM

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PokerDiva

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Anael, your first block is beautiful. Can't wait to see the rest. I just got my quilt back from Charisma. Need to do the binding then I will post a pic. I love it.

01-22-2013, 04:33 PM

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carriem

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Anael--that is a nice first block. I look forward to seeing more!

01-23-2013, 07:26 AM

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Mona Lisa 2011

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Anael

Here's my first block: Alabama. The centre is off but even with the off centre the block hardly measures 12.5". My printer was set to no scaling.
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Did you use scant 1/4 inch seams?

01-23-2013, 07:55 AM

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whitepine

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Anael, I too had trouble getting a full 12.5" block so I cheated and cut the last pieces bigger. For example, on Alabama, the last two pieces on sections A & B call for 3.75" and 4.75". I cut the squares at 4" and 5". This gave me the extra I needed with no worries.

Thanks TeddybearLady and NYgal.

01-23-2013, 01:40 PM

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Anael

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Good to know I"m not the only one having trouble getting a full 12.5" block. Thanks for the advice whitepine! And thanks all for the compliments on my first block

01-23-2013, 02:08 PM

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twoxover

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Quote:

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Hi twoxover, according to meanmom you need about 7 yards. I just bought my background fabric last week and started the first star today. It's halfway done.

thank you Aneal!

01-28-2013, 07:12 AM

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paintmejudy

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Just stopped by to see what was being posted and noticed the last few comments on size. If you do not trim the block until the 4 quadrants are sewn into a square, then remove the paper and press, you can then trim it to perfect size. I always did that and had no problem with size.