Greenheron

The best advice is to go back to Glenn's original thread: http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...on-t98864.html and check ghostrider's suggestions. That's what I did. She's very clear. There are some examples as well as patterns if you follow her link. My suggestions: Don't bother cutting diamond shapes in your fabric--a rough rectangle works well. I found a dab of glue stick helped with the sharper points. Not being very handy with my computer, I copied the diamond on the link, pulled up a new email and found I could put 3 rows of 5 diamonds (rhombi) per sheet. I mailed it to myself, stacked the print on three more sheets of tag and cut the necessary 60 papers. The finished project is about 6 inches diameter, the rhombi just a bit more than 1 inch on each side.

Three of the stars were fussy cut, the remainder in similar colors. I enjoyed basting and joining each star before beginning the next. I confess to pinning the first six stars correctly but when sewing I mistook which star was in the center and sewed the entire half wrong. It was such a fun project I didn't mind the ripping time.

It is not as complicated as it appears (despite my six-star error) if you are able to see it as a central star with five surrounding stars stitched onto its five diamonds and those five then stitched to each other on their sides. Do this twice and then join the two haves, stuff and close. I used different color groups for each star to help me visualize the process.

This is a small project: 12 stars of five diamonds--sixty in all.

I did leave the (stiff) papers in. It seemed to me it might bulge out when stuffed if the papers were removed but it won't be a very good pincushion this way. Next one will be sans papers......we'll see what happens.