To the newbies: If you can get approved onto Bonnie Hunters facebook page. There are a lot of videos with show and tell. Pretty soon you can recognize the patterns even in different colorways. Her website is extensive and you can buy specific patterns or books that have the patterns in them.
I'm taking a class (my first!) this November. What we are doing is Smith Mountain Morning. So I bought the book and am almost finished with my trial attempt. There are several mistakes in this. The most outstanding is that the corners should be one color and the star the opposite color. I made them the same. Then I switched the numbers of the brown and the blue. So that means I sewed the first row wrong. Should be star/chimney/star and I have it the other way. That forces me to make 4 new blue stars and I have 4 brown stars extra.[ATTACH=CONFIG]611074[/ATTACH]