Originally Posted by
rural01
Hah, I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product too. Could be a long time though. I am loving the process though. Yes, I'm fold and stitching the ends to make the points. I have a pretty assembly line process going from cutting the blades to stitching the ends, to pressing each one. I was opening up all the seams on the plate as Eleanor Burns describes, but decided that was just too cumbersome. So now that I'm pressing the seams all to one direction, it is going so much faster. I had a problem with the first block--actually the one pictures--it wouldn't lay down flat. I have since purchased a new 1/4" foot for my sewing machine. It has a little guide on it. Since I started using that, I have no more problems. So apparently sewing was my problem before. It is so nice when it all works.
I cheat even more -- i draw the 1/4 inch line on one side of each ray....that way if i happen to be doing it by hand, i know exactly where to stitch. ... and if by machine --- the little bit of time it takes to draw the line is made up for by the speed with which i can sew. I press all my seams one way as well.... Maybe i just have a very attentive sewing angel - but thus far i have never had one that didn't lie flat using this method.