Originally Posted by
barny
Monale, a clerk at the fabric store can show you what muslin is. A very nice, cotton, either cream colored or white. What you are showing would not work. Your center block is really pretty, as will the whole block be, when you get it finished.
Unfortunately people don't speak English where I live and I have no idea what "muslin" is in Chinese
. But I think I get the idea: it seems to be more like the cheaper bed sheet fabric. I will try to organise some for the future!
Anyway, I couldn't wait starting my block, so I had another idea: I've seen a youtube video where someone is using fusible interface as a foundation. She is doing machine piecing, but I figured it should work for hand piecing, too. So I decided to use it for the spikes part and I drew them on there with a fabric marker. It seems to work so far, I'm just putting in the quarter circle right now.