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

Remember the 'u tube' song you can quilt that out? You did an amaizing job. Your quilt is beautiful :thumbup:

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.