beautiful - love the colors

All your points look good,press open as many seams as you can

Looks great. I am in the process of doing one now, and these suggestions help a lot. Mine looks totally different because of my use of colors. Isn't this fun??? I think yours is very pretty and hope mine turns out as well. :)

Great points! :-)

very pretty, makes me want to try it out.

It's beautiful, I think you did a great job. Sometimes I've seen where quilt teachers recommend pressing the seams open to avoid the bulky knubs/knobs, whatever, or they will "twirl" the seams around in one direction so thee is a swirl in the middle and the seams are not as bulky.

Firstly you have done a lovely job. You have kept all your points. I never sew HST, always cut 2 squares larger sew together on the diagonal then cut. Avoids bias edges. As to the hammer I saw one advertised on a site yesterday but can't seem to find it now. Will check through my history and see if I can find it. I know I've seen them in quilt shops here in Australia. They are really pretty with flowers painted on them.( Maybe to discourage men. Lol)

That is what I was going to say too on the HST. In case you don't know: Pressing is setting down the iron on the piece, then picking it up and repositioning the iron. Ironing is moving the iron on the piece from side to side. It is easy to distort the bias edge.

As for the nubs where the seams meet: Sometimes you can take out the first few threads in the seam allowance and press the bulk open. It will look like a pinwheel and your seam allowances will not be one continuous seam. Instead it will lean toward the side that it wants to lean to. (Kind of hard to explain)

Another pressing tip is to plan it ahead a little so the pieces can nest in each other at the seam.

Well done, by the way!

Beautiful lock. Eleanor Burns has a technique that she clips a stitch in the seam and smooches it. You need to watch her at work on RFD to make sense out of what I mentioned.

Nice job It's on my want to do list :mrgreen: