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I'm currently Making a Lone Star with Quiltstart method and it is fool proof. Easy, fast and the result is wonderful. Just follow the directions. Good lucck and look forward to seeing your star.
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Beautiful Quilt. :):):)
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My avatar is my first quilt. I bought and used Jan Krentz's DVD "Jan Krentz Teaches You to Make Lone Star Quilts"
Once I figured out how to get the strips to match up right it was easy. :) You can do it and you will love it! |
love your quilt did it take you long to make looks huge
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Jan Krentz has a book and CD with the pattern that is very easy to make.
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This has been my dream to make....AND my daughter is ready to put it on her bed whenever it is done !!
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Love the colors I am going to try and do one of those in the future as I have to finish all of the other things I am doing first
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That's really pretty, I tried one using the strip piecing, but I couldn't get the pieces to fit together to make the star!? I'm not saying it was the pattern at all, probably in the cutting or not keeping the seams at 1/4 inch.
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It is on my list, but I haven't been brave enough, yet!
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just gorgeous, I love it!!
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I made a large one last fall, and I loved the process! If you sew the center star together in two separate sections (half and half) and then join in the center it goes together much flatter. If you try to join the sections in a circle, you can end up with a pucker in the middle. If it's a little puckered you can sew a little deeper on some of the seams (across the star from each other) and it will solve the issue. I also did the strip sets method, which is tons easier than cutting a gillion little diamonds.
Here's mine http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-79225-1.htm |
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
I made the lone star out of the books Quilts! Quilts!! Quilts!!!
The authors used a strip piecing technique then the strip sets were cut at a 45 degree angle. I found it very easy. The only trouble I had was it volcanoed up in the center. I ripped and resewed just the center bit several times and still ended up with about an "a" cup in the center but it quilted out beautifully. I hand quilted it. Here is a picture. |
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I made a lone star for my third full size quilt. I didn't have a pattern, just a book with a picture and a template for the diamond.
It was hand pieced, and I didn't worry about the bias edges. I just kept going around until it was big enough, figure out how to square it off, added borders and there it was! It's a miracle it all worked out, and I really didn't think it was all that hard to do. This is the center of it, and the only photo. I gave it to my sister-in-law, and got it back after she died. Janet |
Read somewhere - probably here - that when you sew toward the center....STOP your sewing at the center 1/4 inch from the end...thus no puckering... I'm anxious to try this theory ... but thought I would pass it on anyway.
Originally Posted by jljack
I made a large one last fall, and I loved the process! If you sew the center star together in two separate sections (half and half) and then join in the center it goes together much flatter. If you try to join the sections in a circle, you can end up with a pucker in the middle. If it's a little puckered you can sew a little deeper on some of the seams (across the star from each other) and it will solve the issue. I also did the strip sets method, which is tons easier than cutting a gillion little diamonds.
Here's mine http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-79225-1.htm |
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