Mosaic Stars quilts
09-03-2012, 03:01 PM
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Now you much fun did you guys have making this? And a project w/your mom...great memories for the both of you. Just love love the pattern! Job well done! I love making snowball blocks but never thought of this idea. Oh...just love it. Did I already say that?
09-03-2012, 03:10 PM
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The main trick with these particular snowballs is to trim out the middle layer (I usually do NOT trim out that middle layer if I'm planning to machine quilt - keeping it in allows you to more easily/correctly line up to the next block/segment), and to press the seams open where 4 snowballs meet....in this case at all the star points.
It's R-E-A-L-L-Y thick and makes the fabrics ripple when pressed if you don't take those two steps. (Poor Mom went first starting on her quilt; I got the bennie of hindsight when I began mine a few hours later!)
Hours later this still hangs on my design board 6 feet away from me and I'm still looking at it constantly, LOL; the colors are even more fabulous "up close and personal"!
Sometimes you really like a quilt you've made.
Sometimes one just knocks your socks off.
I'm barefooted.
Jan in VA
09-03-2012, 06:43 PM
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I couldn't agree more! I sure wish I lived close enough to take this class of your because I'd LOVE to have a quilt from this fabulous pattern! And speaking of fabulous, both of these quilts are! They couldn't be more different from each other but they're both equally gorgeous. I personally like the pale yellow. It makes for such a soft, dreamy quilt! And yours says "LOOK AT ME!"! And that's fabulous! P. S: if you're all done with your Civil War prints, you can send them to me... LOL!
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