I meant to take lots of pictures while making M7 [week of Sept 8] but failed miserably
I was sitting on the couch much of the time and finished it while at a quilt board meeting where I forgot to take out my phone to snap another photo. The most common blogspots -
http://thatquilt.blogspot.com/2010/01/m-7.html and
http://auntreensquilts.blogspot.com/...se-garden.html have slightly different ways of putting theirs together and mine is a third way
I started by tracing the pattern from the book directly onto my background fabric. I also cut out the inner pointy square and each of the two different melons and print moon shape out of freezer paper to use as templates. I cut four melons of background, four of the other melons as outer points and 4 moons out of print, center section out of the print.[ATTACH=CONFIG]432610[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]432609[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]432608[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]432611[/ATTACH]I cut a 3 1/4" square for the center piece and traced the pattern onto the fabric with a light colored washaway marker for melon placement and needleturned the inner curves of the melons onto the square. When done I trimmed the print down under the melons. I appliqued the crescent moons to the background followed by the print melons at the corners. I then cut a circle out of the middle background and trimmed the background seam down, made sure I could see the placement for the crescent moons on the white melons for the center. I clipped the crescent inner curves, pinned them on and used reverse applique to attach the inner circle underneath.
Gus