Kitsie

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C7 - C10. Very happy with inside (diamond) rows of C7. C8 had very flat center seams because I pressed them open but lo, I reversed the fabrics!! Seeing as I was using a charm square, I just made another small center and appliqued it over the original. Not bad! Also needed to make the outer triangles of larger fabric but if I'm really careful I can still get enough for a seam allowance when I join the blocks. Thank heaven for Fray Check. First picture of it is wrong! Love doing reverse applique

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Here are C5 (mine turns backwards!), C6 (I love this one!) and Triangle LS 4. So what one for today? Maybe another triangle?

Originally Posted by Kitsie

Here are C5 (mine turns backwards!), C6 (I love this one!) and Triangle LS 4. So what one for today? Maybe another triangle?

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I use freezer paper piecing (Thimbleberries method) for a lot of small intricate blocks like the DJ's. My great big roll of FP is 18" wide so I cut 6" WOF and then cut to 6" squares. Very cheap!! to print on them I use a piece of copy paper that I printed one block diagram on (I use the same one over and over).
Place the FB on the copy paper shiny side down and with your iron just run across the top edge of the FP. It loads really well into your printer and off you go!

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I redid B12 in pink and did it with regular applique instead of the reverse app that the green one was done with. Its 10 times worse!! So I will stick with the green and who cares if other greens surround it!
LS1 was fun and time consuming BUT NOT AS TIME CONSUMING AS C4!!!! 11 hours on this one! Mainly because I outsmarted myself and was too stubborn to remake it! My bright idea was to inset the seams on the outside corners instead of using 2 pcs of background fabric. Only took 2 hours

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Back to some easier piecing! Used Freezer paper for accuracy on the first two. Don't really know why on the instructions I found on the internet that C-3 seemed to cause problems!

For that one I cut 2" strips out of my background and focus fabrics and sewed about 24" together. I then cut these joined strips into 2" sections for the 4-patch and the rectangles that join them. It was a simple matter to sew 2 of the rectangles into the center square, sew (2) 4-patch

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Ahhh! Finished row B with an easy one! Still Freezer Paper pieced it for accuracy! With B12 I took some advice and did not do it from the diagram in the book. I separated the center from the melon seeds and made the seeds smaller.

On to row C! Maybe tomorrow!

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Moving right along! Got very brave, or is it foolish when I decided to do B10 quite differently. Instead of appliqueing the "crescents" in place, I pieced the whole triangle and appliqued the background corner! Had a heck of a time getting the corners to tuck properly for the diagonal bands, but it finally went quite well.

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Here's B-3 & B5! Appliqueing those diamonds - Oh my!

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For anyone doing this quilt, if you can find a friend that is also doing it and trade some 10" pieces of fabric and double your variety!

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