Originally Posted by fireworkslover
I've seen similar patterns before and wondered how they fit together. I looked at your blog and saw how it happens. Thanks for the explanation. I made Karen K. Stone's 'Cinco de Mayo' pattern, which is similar to this but is square blocks. All the parts were hand drawn on tracing paper. I found it tears off easier than other paper. My quilt is 5 blocks X 6 blocks (each block about 11" square). My color palette is very different than Karen's tho.
That is the only part I don't have patience for, tracing the pattern. I just can't do it. It kills me, unless it is a small piece like the wedges on the star. I bought Karen's software. You have to have EQ to use it. I printed out the patterns on 11x17 paper, the cheapest kind, and sewed on it. The Cinco is like the New York beauty with more spikes and rings and I did a work up on it on my blog when I did it too...it went together like butter but a lot of work too. It took me 400 hours because I was very anal about it hahahahah