Jinny Beyer is a famous "hand piecer". She can turn out quilts done completely by hand faster than most people can do them with a machine. Hand piecing makes doing those inset seams & oddball shapes easier but the time spent cutting out the templates and fabric and marking points is way more tedious than I want to deal with. She does have other patterns that are more machine friendly.

Even paper piecing this one would be challenging.

WOW - It's a beauty and wishing you luck. Please post a picture when you get this completed!

Yah....in my dreams would I ever try that one!! Love the looks of it, but all I can see are a million little pieces needing to be put together PRECISELY. Not me :!:

A lot of her patterns are paper pieced. I would try that way first. Or like someone else said, write and ask.

Starting in the center with no. 1's sew them together, then follow with no. 2's and keep adding according to the number and you should be able to make the block. What puzzles me is, what colors to use? Two, three or more?

Carol J.

Start in the centre. Treat the block as five sections.

There is a reason this is classified as "advanced" on Jinny's website.

You should probably piece the four outside sections (6, 8, 8, 5, 4) first, then the four star sections should be next (2, 3, 3) and (2, 7). Finally, the center (1, 1) and join all the sections together.

Since Jinny does not add seam allowances to the pattern pieces, it should be fairly easy to print out several copies of the templates, trim them down and tape them together for a paper piecing project.

When one pieces by hand, the order does matter, but not nearly as much as when sews by machine.

There are Instructions go to Free Patterns then to "Advanced" Pick the Devonshire and you can download the pattern in PDF

I would put it together by the series of #s she puton the pattern -#1 has two sew them -the sew #2 on each end and so forth -