That spider star is beautiful. Was it paper pieced?

Thank you. It was just regular pieced together, not paper pieced. I don't think I'll be doing it again either. LOL

Why was the braid so difficult?

I'm not good at figuring out something like that anymore. Could be that I'm looking at turning 80 within a year. It looks good to me and would like to see the quilt you make with it.

I tried the card trick block before rotary cutters and rulers. what a hot mess that was. Now I have tools and starch and know what half square triangles, split quarter square triangles and a center quarter square triangle and it's easy as pie.

I thinnk the block I spent the most time doing (8 hours according to my DJ journal) was the center block in the dear jane quilt Pappa's Star. I made three before I called it good enough. 4.5" finished, the center star was about an inch I think. But it made a better quilter out of me :) If we don't try, we can't succeed. (not my block, just grabbed it from google)

Cleopatra's fan. No photos because I threw the mess away. Tried it with free templates. Someone recently posted the plastic templates on FB. Yikes. It brought back the struggle of all those curves.

Double wedding ring! OMG!!! have to be organzed. So muh swearing. So much crying. Seam riper..wore it out. Determined to master it and ened up making three with scrappy color way.

While looking through my quilts folder for a complicated block picture, I found two that were difficult. The hearts quilt was done many, many years ago when I had no one to advise me. I appliqued hearts on the 4 huge blocks. The mandala seashell covers one whole wall in my workroom. 100 squares per block.

My nemesis is flying geese in a line, on the diagonal. I avoid them like the plague. But now that I have a nifty Creative Grids ruler for geese, I might try again. Might.

Mine was a crazy quilted Christmas stocking. I just can't do crazy! Well I can but not when I'm quilting. LOL I don't have it to post a pictured because my sister thought it was the best thing ever and asked for it. I happily sent it home to live at her house.