Doggramma

That is so pretty and you did such a great job. I wish you the best of luck in your hair growing back quickly!

Mariposa

Cute quilt! Perhaps you can find another pattern to use the rest of your layer cake....such fun.

lynnie

came out beautifully. great colors.
that woman must not sleep at night thinking all these ideas up.

luvstoquilt301

It looks great. You did exactly what I do with something that is difficult. Try to get enough blocks to turn it into something and then call it DONE.

dunster

Your project still came out very cute. Jenny skips over all the finer points of sewing. You never see her actually finish a project, LOL.

Just Jan

[QUOTE=ArtsyOne;6866078]I watched Jenny Doan's video on this and it looked so easy! Boy, was I surprised. After making the first block and having to trim it waaaaay down to get it square, I pulled myself together and was extremely careful with my seams. That didn't help much - all of those diagonal edges, no matter how careful I was not to stretch them, made everything all wonky again.

I had the same problem and decided there must be an easier way and there is!!!!!!!!!!!! Forget the Hourglass... I used 5" charm squares and cut and sewed them using the sew and flip method on rectangles. I got perfect star points using all straight of grain (no bias) seams. It makes exactly the same star block and is really easy. The only tricky part is being sure you lay out the pieces in the right order before sewing them together. My blocks finished to 12 inches. If anybody is interested you can PM me and I will gladly share my pattern.

PaperPrincess

I had the same problem with all the bias edges, so a couple weeks ago I created a cutting chart to cut the HST using the conventional method which results in blocks that are on the grain of fabric:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...t-t251803.html

krafty14

I didn't have big enough squares to make the hourglass using the "easy" pinwheel method of sewing around the outside. I made my 4 hst the old way (draw line down middle, 1/4" on each side). Using these hst to make the hourglass you don't get all the bias edges. Much easier. Ann

QUILTNMO

Very pretty!!nice colors

Jackie Spencer

I love it!! Your colors are wonderful!!