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Old 01-17-2014, 12:51 PM
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terri123
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UPDATE: A letter from Dereck follows:

Hi Terri:

No there are no plastic templates available for Stardust. You have to make
your own. In the old days when I learned to quilt we made our templates
out of cardboard. I used cereal boxes for instance. Of course we did not
use rotary cutters in those days. You can buy template plastic at you
local quilt store. It will not stand up to a rotary cutter either so what
you should do is use a fine pointed marker. Draw around the template,
remove it then cut out the pieces 4 layers at a time by putting your ruler
on the drawn line and rotary cutting it (straight lines only). Cut the
curves with scissors. You can also punch holes in your template to mark
the seam dots so you can match them up which really helps in this quilt
because of the odd shaped pieces.

You can not paper piece this quilt because of all the curved seams.

Happy Quilting
Dereck C. Lockwood


Back to 'grandma days'! Thanks for all the input here. Will let you know
what I learn what the template lady in Oregon says. But, with the curves,
perhaps the 'cereal box' is the best option.
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